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Benesh
Benesh is a surname, an Anglicized version of the Czech surname Beneš. Notable people with the surname include: * Joan Benesh (1920–2014), British ballet dancer *Rudolf Benesh Rudolf Benesh (16 January 1916 – 3 May 1975) was a British mathematician who created the '' Benesh Movement Notation'' for dancing. Biography Rudolf Benesh was son of a Czech father and an Anglo-Italian mother. He worked as a mathematician ... (1916–1975), British mathematician {{surname English-language surnames Surnames of Czech origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Benesh
Joan Benesh (née Rothwell; 24 March 1920 – 27 September 2014) was a British ballet dancer who, with her husband Rudolf, created the Benesh Movement Notation, which is the leading British system of dance notation. Early life, education, and marriage She was born Joan Dorothy Rothwell in the Wavertree district of Liverpool in 1920. She studied dance for three years in Liverpool at the Studio School of Dance and Drama and then studied with Lydia Sokolova. She won the ballet prize of the All England Dance Competition in 1937 and the Parker Trophy for Dance in 1938. She then worked as a dancer and choreographer in commercial theatre where, in 1947, she met the accountant, artist and musician, Rudolf Benesh, who noticed that she was having trouble: "During a break while I was painting Joan's portrait, I mused at her struggle to get down on paper her choreographic ideas for a ballet". He began a notation to help her record her dances and they developed the system together. The cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Benesh
Rudolf Benesh (16 January 1916 – 3 May 1975) was a British mathematician who created the '' Benesh Movement Notation'' for dancing. Biography Rudolf Benesh was son of a Czech father and an Anglo-Italian mother. He worked as a mathematician while his wife Joan was a dancer in Sadler's Wells ballet in the late 1940s. She was having difficulty with her attempts to write and then decipher dance steps. He then devised a dance notation system while at work in the office. He wrote some lines to represent a movement of someone at a desk, then asked someone else to decipher them. The system evolved in the period 1947 to 1955. Dame Ninette de Valois announced that the Royal Opera House would be using the Benesh Movement Notation. In the following year, Rudolf and Joan wrote ''An Introduction to Benesh Dance Notation''. In 1957 the first dance notated with the system was Stravinsky's ''Petroushka''. Faith Worth was the first professional Benesh notator. In 1962 the Benesh Institute o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beneš
Beneš (feminine: Benešová) is a Czech surname. The name originated as a pet form of the given names Benedict (given name), Benedikt and Benjamin (name), Benjamin. The Germanization, Germanized form is Benesch and the Anglicized form is Benesh. Notable people with the surname include: Sports *Alan Benes (born 1972), American baseball pitcher *Andy Benes (born 1967), American baseball pitcher *Hana Benešová (born 1975), Czech athlete *Ivan Beneš (born 1960), Czech basketball player and coach *Iveta Benešová (born 1983), Czech tennis player *Jan Beneš (orienteer) (born 1987), Czech orienteer *Ladislav Beneš (born 1943), Czech handball player *Luděk Beneš (1937–2016), Czech slalom canoer *Marijan Beneš (1951–2018), Bosnian boxer *Petr Beneš (born 1974), Czech volleyball player *Vít Beneš (born 1988), Czech footballer Other *Bedrich Benes (born 1967), Czech-American computer scientist *Božena Benešová (1873–1936), Czech writer and poet *Edvard Beneš (1884–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain after its Roman occupiers left. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 57 sovereign states and 30 dependent territories, making it the most geographically widespread language in the world. In the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, it is the dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
