Writing About Dance

A Practical Framework for Documenting Movement

This resource is designed for artists, educators, students, and anyone looking to articulate what they see, feel, and experience in dance. Whether you’re writing reflections, program notes, grant language, or critical responses, this guide offers practical tools to support clarity, specificity, and depth.

What’s Inside

• A step-by-step framework for observing and documenting movement

• Guidance on writing with clarity, precision, and specificity

• Prompts to support reflection on movement, sensation, and relationship

• Tools for identifying action, context, and dynamics in dance

• A glossary of language for describing movement, space, time, and tone

Who It’s For

• Dancers and choreographers

• Directors and movement practitioners

• Educators and students

• Writers, dramaturgs, and reviewers

• Anyone seeking to better understand and articulate movement-based work