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laban dance notation system

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Laban dance notation system

[lah-buhn, ley-]
–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.
Also called la⋅ba⋅no⋅ta⋅tion [lah-buh-noh-tey-shuhn, ley-] .


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