The Israeli dancer and choreographer Noa Eshkol (1924 – 2007) started thinking about dance notation at an early stage of her artistic career. She moved to London in 1946, where she attended the Art of Movement Studio founded by Rudolf von Laban in Manchester and then the Sigurd Leeder School of Modern Dance. While studying Labanotation, she realised that it did not meet her requirements: Eshkol wanted to develop a notation system for dance that would not only document and record movements, but – like music notation – could also be used to create complex dance compositions. In the 1950s, she developed the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation system (EWMN) in collaboration with the architect Avraham Wachman. It is an abstract movement notation that is based on a three-dimensional geometric system and can be used to describe the movements of any body (human, animals, machines), as long as it is constructed by limbs and joints. Based on this system, Noa Eshkol has created an extensive repertoire of choreographies that are purely focussed on movement and do not require music, sets or costumes.

In 1954, she founded The Chamber Dance Group in Israel, in which she herself danced until the late 1950s and which then continued to perform her works. Since her death in 2007, the group, which is now known as The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group, has been touring all over the world. As well as performances, the company also regularly offers courses, discussion groups, open rehearsals, public classes, dance and movement workshops for children and adults, film screenings and lectures – all with the aim of keeping Noah Eshkol's legacy alive.

The digital Noa Eshkol Archive contains a wealth of materials relating to the artist’s work. The ‘archival capsules’ – a variety of chronologically or thematically arranged galleries – offer curated collections of scores, photographs, correspondence, videos and other documents.

Both the archive and the Chamber Dance Group are supported by the Noa Eshkol Foundation, which was established in 2008 in accordance with the artist’s will and testament. The foundation also promotes academic research on the Eshkol-Wachman movement notation system and oversees the care and sale of hundreds of tapestries, which were created by Noa Eshkol during her lifetime.