This article discusses practitioners who have contributed to the development of the process of capturing dance or dance movements on paper, through: notation, photography and film. The reflections of these personalities, such as Ann Hutchinson, Rudolf Von Laban, Eadweard Muybridge, Lois Greenfield, Ted Shawn, Norman McLaren and Sue Healey, included the definition of direct research on how these three documentary media interact to describe a dancing in various choreographic genres. The aim of this research is to highlight the importance of noting and capturing the body in motion, to see if it is possible to make an evolution in the process of teaching-learning-assessment of dance disciplines, by analyzing and "reading" a document, being able to communicate dance to the dancer / student when a living body is absent.