Ann Hutchinson Guest

Ann Hutchinson Guest MBE (née Hutchinson; 3 November 1918 – 9 April 2022) was an American authority on dance notation and movement analysis, long based in the United Kingdom. She studied more than 80 dance notation systems and translated 20 to Labanotation. This gave her access to a number of dance works in their original version – such as Vaslav Nijinsky's L'Après-midi d'un Faune. Her extensive research, performing and teaching career led her to establish the Language of Dance approach to movement understanding.

Ann Hutchinson Guest

MBE
Guest in 2009
Born
Ann Hutchinson

(1918-11-03)3 November 1918
New York City, U.S.
Died9 April 2022(2022-04-09) (aged 103)
London, England
Alma materDartington Hall
Known forDance notation
SpouseRicky Trent (1940s)
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(m. 1962; died 2018)​

Career

Hutchinson Guest studied labanotation with Sigurd Leeder at Dartington Hall in England in the 1930s and trained in modern dance and ballet. In New York, she co-founded and directed the Dance Notation Bureau, danced on Broadway and taught at the Juilliard School.[1][2]

Awards and honours

For her contribution to dance research and education, Hutchinson Guest was awarded two honorary doctorates as well as many lifetime achievement awards. In 1997, she received the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD).[3] In 1998, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Dance Studies.[4]

In 2021, Hutchinson Guest was appointed an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.[5] It was made substantive in 2022 shortly before her death,[6] indicating she had taken British nationality.

Personal life and death

Ann Hutchinson Guest was born on 3 November 1918, in New York City.[7] She spent most of her childhood growing up in England. She returned to the United States when she turned 21. In the 1940s, she had a brief marriage with Ricky Trent, a trumpeter she had met while performing in One Touch of Venus.[8] In 1962, she married dance historian Ivor Forbes Guest and they remained together until his death in 2018.[9]

Hutchinson Guest died on 9 April 2022 at her home in London, aged 103.[10][11][12][8]

Works
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (1998). Choreo-graphics: a comparison of dance notation systems from the fifteenth century to the present. Gordon and Breach. ISBN 9789057000034. OCLC 50987415.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2004). Labanotation, or, Kinetography Laban: the system of analyzing and recording movement. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96561-3. OCLC 63092928.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2004). Your move: a new approach to the study of movement and dance : exercise sheets. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-677-22310-0. OCLC 224533367.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson; Victoria, Felisa; Zorn, Friedrich Albert (2008). Fanny Elssler's Cachucha. Dance. ISBN 978-0-903102-59-9. OCLC 619750021.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson; Jeschke, Claudia (2010). Nijinsky's Faune restored: a study of Vaslav Nijinsky's 1915 dance score : L'après-midi d'un faune and his dance notation system : revealed, translated into labanotation and annotated. Noverre Press. ISBN 978-1-906830-16-8. OCLC 722720257.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2017). A selection from the Sigurd Leeder heritage. ISBN 978-1-906830-81-6. OCLC 989698594.

See also

References
  1. Biography Archived 7 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, lodc.org. Accessed 16 April 2022.
  2. Biography Archived 28 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine, lodcusa.org. Accessed 16 April 2022.
  3. "Awards". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2008.
  4. "Guggenheim Fellowships 1998". Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  5. "Honorary Awards to Foreign Nationals in 2021". Gov.UK. 2021. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  6. "Crown Office". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  7. "DNBulletin, Fall 2007 (Vol. 10, No. 2) – Dance Notation Bureau" (PDF). Dance Notation Bureau. 6 November 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  8. "Ann Hutchinson Guest, who put the dance on paper, dies at 103". zphysician. 15 April 2022.
  9. "Ann Hutchinson Guest Collection". University of Roehampton. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  10. "Ann Hutchinson Guest gestorben" (in German). Tanznetz. 12 April 2022. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  11. Fügedi, János; Bastien, Marion (11 April 2022). "Remembering Ann Hutchinson Guest, President of ICKL" (PDF). International Council of Kinetography Laban (ICKL). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 April 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  12. Genzlinger, Neil (15 April 2022). "Ann Hutchinson Guest, Who Fixed Dance on Paper, Dies at 103". The New York Times.
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