It highly depends on the dance, its age and its history. Ballroom dancing, for example, has notation for various elements of movement. Here[1] you can find exam

It highly depends on the dance, its age and its history. Ballroom dancing, for example, has notation for various elements of movement. Here[1] you can find examples. If you check them out, you'll see a fair bit of complexity. Overall, ballroom dancing is even more complicated than that and it's difficult if not impossible to come up with a good notation that would describe most of the movement. For social dancing or for the lower levels, maybe, but once you start talking about the various different elements of foot placement, leg action, body action and 3D movement, it becomes almost useless to think of it in terms of dense notation. There are many layers of complexity here, perhaps not all too different in nature from the layers of complexity when dealing with computers and software. In dancing, the goal is usually to start somewhere in the middle and make your way up towards more abstract ways of thinking about it and also down towards more fine technical detail. [1]: https://www.worlddancesport.org/WDSF/Academy/Technique_Books https://www.worlddancesport.org/WDSF/Academy/Technique_Books