This second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.

Introduction, Chapter One - Movement; Stillness; Timing; Shape; Accents.Chapter Two - Traveling Chapter Three - Variations In Traveling Chapter Four - Absence of Support: Springing (Elevation): The Five Basic Forms Chapter Five - Direction-Definition of Space Chapter Six - Direction-Broader Exploration of Space Chapter Seven - Flexion; Extension Chapter Eight - Rotations, Revolutions, Turns Chapter Nine - Supporting; Change of Support Chapter Ten - Balance, Loss of Balance Chapter Eleven - Relationships Chapter Twelve - Relationships: Further Development Chapter Thirteen - Body Initiations: Central, Peripheral; Part Leading, Guidance Chapter Fourteen - One-Sided Gestures; Gestural Pathways; Gathering, Scattering Chapter Fifteen - Directions: The Diagonals Chapter Sixteen - Turning of Body Parts: Unit Rotation, Twist Chapter Seventeen - Flexion and Extension: Specific Forms Chapter Eighteen - Relationship: Situations in Meeting; Looking Chapter Nineteen - Specific Directional Actions Chapter Twenty - Destination, Motion Chapter Twenty-One - Direction: Systems of Reference Chapter Twenty-Two - Timing; Phrasing; Dynamics-Recapitulation, Conclusion