pole[[File:Dancewriting 001.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Un ejemplo de una pose de danza y su correspondingnotación "dancewriting" notationcorrespondiente.]]
InEn thela década de 1680s1680, [[Pierre Beauchamp]] inventoinventó un sistema de notacionnotación de danza para la danza barroca. Su sistema denominado ''[[notación Beauchamp-Feuillet notation]]'', fue publicado en 1700 bypor [[Raoul-Auger Feuillet]] andy usedse tolo utilizó para guardar registros de recordlas dancesdanzas throughoutdurante theel eighteenthsiglo centuryXVIII.
AUna well-knownimportante collectioncolección ofde danceregistros scoresde isdanzas thees la [[colección Sergeyev Collection]], recorded using [[Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov]]'s notation method. This collection documents the [[Mariinsky Ballet|Imperial Ballet]]'s (todayen thela actualidad ballet Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet) repertoire from the turn of the 20th century, including [[Marius Petipa]]'s original choreographic designs for ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|TheLa SleepingBella BeautyDurmiente]]'', ''[[Giselle]]'', ''[[Le Corsaire]]'', andy ''[[SwanEl LakeLago de los Cisnes]]'', as well as ''[[Coppélia]]'' andy thela versión original version ofdel ''[[The Nutcracker]]''. It was with this collection that many of these works were first staged outside Russia.
In 1948, [[Hanya Holm]] became the first Broadway choreographer to have her dance scores copyrighted, for her work on ''[[Kiss Me, Kate|Kiss Me Kate]]''.
