La·ba·no·ta·tion 
(lä′bə-nō-tāshən)
(lä′bə-nō-tāshən)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.
[After Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), Hungarian choreographer + (N)OTATION.]