a system of movement notation, using symbols on a staff, that records the parts of a dancer's body, direction in space, dynamics, and tempo for all kinds of movement: used to record and reconstruct forms of dance and movement
Also called: labanotation (ˌlɑːbənouˈteiʃən, ˌlei-)
Word origin
[after dance theorist Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), born in Slovakia, who devised it]