Abstract
The article explains the fundamental points of the human body movement notation system invented in 1891 by the dancer of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov. It is a system through which, in a period between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, several ballets, sometimes real masterpieces, were transcribed, allowing us to reconstruct otherwise lost choreographies. Rather than on the cryptic manual, published in French by Stepanov himself,namely the Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain (1892), the analysis is carried out on the volume published a few years later by the choreographer of the Russian Imperial Theaters Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky, Table of signs for the recording of the movements of the human body (1899).