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Laban dance notation system

  [lah-buhn, ley-]
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–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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La·ba·no·ta·tion   (lä'bə-nō-tā'shən)   
n.  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: "Labanotation is specific enough to record the flutter of an eyelid" (Joseph Menosky).

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

system of recording human movement, originated by the Hungarian-born dance theorist Rudolf Laban.

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