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Laban, Sutton, Benesh and more notational methods are explained by these sites with information on computerized scoring and copyright, with general background on the industry, job postings and career information ...

Dance Writing Site - Sutton DanceWriting® is a simple body movement notation that has been in use since 1974. This site provides a basic introduction and illustrations of this notation for single dancers and group movements.

The Dance Notation Bureau - Tutorials take you through learning Labanotation, introduced by Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s. Plus a free download of the LabanWriter, a software program for MAC (will not work on a PC).

The Benesh Institute - A full history of the notation and the Institute plus a description of the Benesh Notation Editor, the PC software for writing and editing multi-stave notation scores are available at this site.

The LiteFoot Project - Would you believe a computer software program exists that can record a dancer's movement from the impact of feet on the dance floor? It's called Litefoot and the University of Limerick is helping to develop it.

The Dance Notation Bureau - Examples of Labanotation for ballroom steps, ballet combination, folk dance and motif description basics. Pictures and descriptions make it seem almost easy. They also offer a service to score your dance.

Copyright of Choreographic Works -From the 1994-95 Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook. No graphics or links, but the information is good. Gives historical background and plenty of citations.

Dancers & Choreographers - U.S. Department of Labor fact sheet with information on required education and training, average earnings statistics and job outlook.

Answers4Dancers - Teaching/Choreography Opportunities - Paid membership to search job postings plus career tips and advice for non-members.