# Labanotation (ラバノーテーション) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.388 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/labanotation
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Labanotation, a style from Notation Systems, 1928–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: recording choreography so it can be revived without the original cast, or analyzing movement in comparable symbols rather than on video. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Symbols stacked without gaps on a vertical staff read from the bottom upward
- Symbol shapes giving nine directions, with the centre line separating right from left
- Shading inside each symbol standing for low, middle or high level
- Symbol length equal to duration, with tick marks for beats and bar lines crossing the staff

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Time climbs from the bottom, one column for each body part
- Type and lettering: Direction in symbol shape, level in shading, sizes held constant
- Material and surface: Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge
- Colour: #fdf3c2 carries the ground, #ab956f is the colour the style is remembered by, #5f4b34 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, calm, rebellion

## What goes wrong

Bending symbol length to capture how a move feels makes duration unreadable, and the revival comes out as a different dance.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/labanotation/design.md