MDPE.18:4.4 - Record survival is not living continuation

A video and notation of a dance survive, but no identified dancer can reproduce the pressure, timing, partner relation, and correction Method under representative conditions. The result can preserve the visible sequence, source history, and embodied gaps. It must not call the practice retained.

Use MDPE.19 to test whether reconstruction is feasible, whether a new branch should be developed, or whether the loss should be acknowledged.