Laban dance notation system

US: (lä′bən, lā′-)

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La′ban dance′ nota′tion sys′tem  (lä′bən, lā′-), 

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  (lä′bə nō tā′shən, lā′-). 
• after dance theorist Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), born in Slovakia, who devised it