RE: Documenting A Ballet Dance

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:33 PM
> To: ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com; bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com; 
> techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Documenting A Ballet Dance
> 
> Bad analogy, Tony. A ballerina, like a classical musician, is
> a performer. The ballerina's product is a *performance*
> of some dance in some particualr place and time, and as
> such it is evanescent.
> 
> You *might* have a point if you were talking about a
> choreographer (the composer of the dance) rather than
> a ballerina (the performer of the choreographer's
> composition). But even there, I think it's a pretty big
> stretch unless you're using an unreasonably strict
> definition of "written description" to be synonymous
> with linear text. As has been noted, there are several
> notational systems for producing a written (recorded
> on paper) descriptions of dances, just as there are
> several notational systems for producing written
> descriptions of musical compositions.
> 

The following is the context of the analogy I introduced:


Tony wrote:
>  This explains the fallacy of writing skills tests:
> You are testing for implementation skill - a much
> lesser skill - not for analysis skill.  The real test
> is to ask the person being tested to create what
> he/she would use as input to text creation - not to
> create text.

Bonnie wrote:
How does that differ from judging a ballerina by her ability to draw
diagrams of her movements?

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Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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