[Verse 1]
Deep in archives where the dances sleep
Notation scores in folders we keep
Dance Notation Bureau holds the key
New York's vault of choreography
Symbols on the page tell every move
Bodies frozen in time we can prove
[Chorus]
Reconstruct and bring it back to life
From the page to stage, cutting like a knife
Through the years the movement stays the same
Labanotation preserves the dancing flame
Read the code, feel the flow
Make the ancient dances grow
[Verse 2]
London's Language of Dance Centre stands
Guardian of scores from many lands
Each notation tells a dancer's tale
Arms and legs and jumps that never fail
Line by line we decode what was done
Bringing back the dances one by one
[Chorus]
Reconstruct and bring it back to life
From the page to stage, cutting like a knife
Through the years the movement stays the same
Labanotation preserves the dancing flame
Read the code, feel the flow
Make the ancient dances grow
[Bridge]
ICKL sets the standard worldwide
International rules we can't divide
Kinetography Laban is the name
Keeping notation methods all the same
From Berlin to Tokyo they meet
Making sure the system stays complete
[Verse 3]
Take the score and study every mark
Light the movement from the written spark
High and low and middle level space
Forward backward find your dancing place
What was lost can live and breathe again
Through the power of notation's pen
[Final Chorus]
Reconstruct and bring it back to life
From the page to stage, cutting like a knife
Through the years the movement stays the same
Labanotation preserves the dancing flame
Archives deep, standards high
Dance will never really die
[Outro]
From the page we make the body move
Reconstruction helps the dance improve
Yesterday's choreography
Lives forever in our memory