Laban dance notation system

American

[lah-buhn, lay-] / ˈlɑ bən, ˈleɪ- /

noun

a system of movement notation, using symbols on a staff, that records the parts of a dancer's body, direction inspace, dynamics, and tempo for all kinds of movement: used to record and reconstruct forms of dance and movement.

After dance theorist Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), born in Slovakia, who devised it

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