Labanotation

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La·ba·no·ta·tion

(lä′bə-nō-tā′shən)

A system of movement notation for dance that employs various symbols to record the points of a dancer's body, the direction of a dancer's movement, the tempo, and the dynamics.

[After Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), Hungarian choreographer + (n)otation.]

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labanotation

(ˌleɪbənəʊˈteɪʃən)

(Ballet) a system for recording ballet movements invented by Rudolph Laban

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Labanotation - a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics

choreography - a notation used by choreographers

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