DanceStepper

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The Staffs

The view displays staffs with notations for a dance figure. There are two staffs in the view. The staff on the left is leader staff and and the right is follower staff. A staff consists of number of columns and rows. The columns show notations for the movement of feet and hands, pose timing, and dancer alignment. A row of the staff shows notations for a pose at a time step. The dancer steps alternately from one pose to the next with time. Time progresses from bottom to top of the staff. The bottom row of the columns show icons descriptive of the column content.

Column Descriptors

The column shows notation for left hand connection to partner.
The column shows notation for left hand position.
The column shows notation for left foot gesture. A gesture is a movement of the foot without weight.
Left foot position. An entry in this column shows notation for the movement of left foot with weight changes. The column also shows pivot turns on left foot.
Right foot position. An entry in this column shows notation for the movement of right foot with weight changes. The column also shows pivot turns on right foot.
The column shows notation for right foot gesture. A gesture is a movement of the foot without weight.
The column shows notation for turns that happens over a sequence of steps. These are called "Way" turns.
The column shows notation fo right hand position.
The column shows notation for right hand connection to partner.
The column shows step timing.
The column shows alignment of the dancers on the dance floor.

View Options

There are three options to view the staff data. Swipe the view from left-to-right or right-to-left to display the three view options. Each view is suitable to edit different data.

• Foot Column View: The view is shown in Figure 1. It consists of 5 columns of data for foot steps, foot gestures, way turn, timing column, and alignment column. This option is suitable to enter and edit notations for the foot movements.
• Foot & Hand Column View: The view is shown in Figure 2. It consists of 9 columns of data, 5 columns for foot movements (these are same as the previous view), and 4 columns for hand movements, and timing and alignment columns. This option is suitable to enter and edit notations for both foot and hand movements.
• Text View: The view is shown in Figure 3. The text descriptions of the step movements are shown. This view option is suitable to add additional notes to the dance score.

Figure 1	Figure 2	Figure 3

User Interaction

Tap on button at the bottom left corner of the window to view the editing buttons shown below.

Edit Foot Notation: Tap on button to display the Foot Notation Editor.

Edit Turns: Tap on button to display the Turn Notation Editor.

Edit Hand Notation: Tap on button to display the Hand Notation Editor.

Edit Floor Alignment: Tap on button to display the Alignment Editor.

Edit Pose Timing: Tap on button to display the Pose Timing Editor.

Notes Editor: Tap on button to add additional notes to the dance score.

Pose Selection:

The notation pads have a pose selection control on the right. Tap on the top and bottom triangles to advance the selection up and down. The middle triangle switches the Leader/Follower staffs. Alternately, simply tap on the row of the staffs to select a pose to edit.

The top triangle also has Long Press menu option to select "auto-step." The auto-step when selected advances the step automatically after step or hand notation.

Hide Notation Pads: To hide the notation pads tap button at the bottom left corner of the window.