Documenting dance: labanotation

MY BACKGROUND IN DANCE

I started dancing at the age of three and have always found movement to be an intuitive, instinctual and natural way to communicate.

I was a dance teacher and choreograpaher at the start of my career before I began to work as a visual artist and this certainly feeds into my work in many ways. 

At college, I studied dance and part of the training was in Labanotaiton (a system of recording human movement using a series of symbols). 
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How does this relate to our project? Im thinking of nonverbal communication and how movement might be documented as a valuable form of communication. I wanted to revisit Labanotaion as a form of language and when I did, I found this great YouTube course which explains the basics: 
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What form of communication makes you feel
​best understood?
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AUTHOR: SARAH