Writing Dance

Could you picture a dance artist sitting at a desk writing down a dance?

Maybe you couldn’t. How is that possible? Dancers are constantly moving.

In fact, dance has been written. Artist and theorist, Rudolf Laban (1879 – 1958), had invented a graphical system of analyzing and recording movement.

This kind of analysis is also useful to animators, athletes, and physiotherapists.

Here we would love to show you a diagram used to write dance. It shows you different parts of the body: arm, forearm, hand, head, leg, feet, etc. each part of the mobilizable body has its symbol.

Design: Xiaoman Ren