As the students walk into the room, the instructor readies the room for her dance technique class. More students arrive and the class assembles near the Datashow for the day's technical demonstration and notation lesson.
Students then practice reading and writing the new material in Labanotation.
Following the collaborative skill training, class resumes with a more traditional technique class, strengthening and stretching the body, testing placement and proper usage. Later, the students may go to the movement science lab where they will use the computer-video interactive system to hone their skills even further. In the lab, a computer compares the student's live movement, as input by a video camera, to an accepted, correct movement prerecorded on videotape. The class then progresses into the combination phase, where the instructor gives the students practice at combining movements into longer phrases. During this part of class, the technician, a trained dancer herself, captures the efforts of the class on videotape.