RE: Documenting A Ballet Dance

["Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

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.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ