1n 1928, Laban published his kinetographie . This and subsequent expositions of his system for recording dance have made possible the collection of a literature and materials for dance. The system is logical since it is based upon fundamental laws of human motor activity . It's functional since it has been used to record dance and non-dance movement in many styles including balle , gymnastics , exercises, time motion studies in industry , movements of spastic patients to medical records and national dance styles ranging from the subtle movements of the dances of India to the improvisations in America jazz dance . The actual notation signs are abstract in design differing in shape from Feulliet symbols . In principle, however, Laban avows in his book: Principles of Dance and Movement Notation (1956), that: " Our movement and dance notation makes use of the principles on which Beauchamp and Feulliet's choreography was built up some 300 years ago. The graphic principl...