Movement composed in time and space, held in bodies more than on paper.
Ways in
Motion capture, phenomenology, choreographic analysis, ethnography.
The longer story
Dance and choreography communicate through moving bodies. Notation systems attempt to capture movement, but something always escapes. Phenomenological approaches attend to kinesthetic experience. Motion capture quantifies movement; practice-based research investigates from within. How does choreographic knowledge get transmitted? What does dance mean, and how? The trained body knows things the verbal mind can't articulate.