The right leg is swung to the side and then brought in rapidly as the figure rise on point, and then pirouettes. Benesh uses notional orthogonal projection of the figure onto a frame on a music-like stave. Each frame is embellished with signs representing detail about positions and movements of the various parts of the body. The frames may be viewed as a series of snapshots of the figure in time. It also has an analogue representation of forward-back movement using the foreshortening of fixed length limbs, and a simple binary symbol to show if the foreshortening is due to the limb being in front of or behind the coronal plane.
Laban notation has time running continuously up the page.
The vertical length and positioning of a symbol represent when and for how long the action occurs. Different columns of the vertical stave represent different parts of the body. Additional signs can be added to represent additional detail. The mindset of people in various disciplines might be characterised by the dominant dimensionality of thought needed to perform their work. Thus for example, computer programmers typically need to think in one dimensional character strings.