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n. - 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.

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  • Later Chilkovsky studied with Hanya Holm and became a Labanotation expert, writing several Laban books.
  • With a B.A. from Barnard, an M.A. from Columbia and a Ph.D. from New York University, she is an expert teacher in Labanotation and several aspects of dance history.
  • Rose Anne Thom has been a member of the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College since l975, teaching courses in dance history, criticism, Labanotation, and pedagogy for...
  • I emphatically state that any movement can be written with Labanotation, the leading system to document movement.
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