Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies in which motion or form or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies by practising the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing. It most commonly refers to dance choreography.
Choreography for the Spanish dance Cachucha, described using dance notation
One of the first documents with choreographic signs is the Catalan manuscript of Cervera from 1496
Dance notation is the symbolic representation of human dance movement and form, using methods such as graphic symbols and figures, path mapping, numerical systems, and letter and word notations. Several dance notation systems have been invented, many of which are designed to document specific types of dance while others have been developed with capturing the broader spectrum of human movement potential. A dance score is a recorded dance notation that describes a particular dance.
La Cachucha, by Friedrich Albert Zorn using Zorn Notation
Valerie Sutton in a dance pose...