The DNB Extension for Education and Research is housed in the Department of
Dance at The
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
in
Columbus, Ohio. The DNB Extension was founded in the Department of Dance in 1968 as a way to further the work and library resources of the
Dance Notation Bureau The Dance Notation Bureau (DNB) is a non-profit organization founded to preserve choreographic works through notating dance scores in Labanotation and collaborating with dance companies to stage reconstructions of those works.
Based in New York C ...
in New York, and to facilitate education and research in
Labanotation
Labanotation (the grammatically correct form "Labannotation" or "Laban notation" is uncommon) is a system for analyzing and recording human movement. The inventor was Rudolf von Laban (1879-1958), a central figure in European modern dance, who ...
, dance documentation, and dance preservation.
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Ohio State University
Dance research
1968 establishments in Ohio