During the staging process, certified labanotators observed rehearsals, then created movement scores, which will be available at the Dance Notation Bureau.

After 20-plus years of service, labanotators Sandra Aberkalns and Leslie Rotman, whose work is the heart of DNB, received their final paychecks on Oct.

Prior to the conference, students from Duke University, Five College Dance Department, Hofstra University, Hunter College, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Utah learned, from key dancers or Labanotators, works by Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Hanya Holm, Jose Limon, Alwin Nikolais, Pearl Primus, Helen Tamiris, Antony Tudor, and Charles Weidman.