BENESH SCORE CATALOGUE

Our score catalogue, compiled and edited by Tania Inman, provides an international listing of Benesh Movement Notation Scores of Professional Dance Works Recorded 1955 - 1998.

Over 1,750 BMN scores of dance works in the repertoire have been written. More than 250 of them are available for use in education, for research purposes, in teaching dances from the repertoire and as a tool for the analysis of movement, rhythm, phrasing and the structure of dance works.

The Royal Academy of Dance's Phillip Richardson Library houses a unique collection of over 500 Benesh scores. In addition to recordings of great choreographic works  the collection also encompasses a number of scores which explore the use of BMN as a tool for anthropological and clinical research such as Julia McGuiness's Application of Benesh Movement Notation to Cerebral Palsy Research and Andrée Grau's study of Ugandan dances.

Information about individual scores can be found on-line in the RADs Library catalogue

This 32 page PDF lists the scores in the Benesh Score Catalogue.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF DANCE PUBLICATIONS

A number of useful books featuring BMN can be found on the RADs on-line shop. These include the Foundations of Classical Ballet, the Progressions of Classical Ballet, Benesh Movement Notation for Ballet and the RADs examination syllabi from Pre-Primary in Dance to Solo Seal which include the BMN scores of the set exercises, studies and dances.

iBooks, eBooks and apps

The RAD publishes many of its publications as i-Books. For further information visit  http://www.radenterprises.co.uk/  

For an entertaining introduction to BMN see also Benesh for Ballet eBooks created by Rhonda Ryman-Kane and Robyn Hughes Ryman.