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BIOGRAPHIES
- Aafje Franken
Aafje Franken gained her Master in European Dance Theatre Practice at Laban in London in 2005 and graduated as a cellist in the Netherlands in 2002.
- Alison Curtis-Jones
Ali is Lecturer at LABAN, London, teaching on the MA Dance Theatre, Professional Diploma and Undergraduate Programmes.
- Alison D’Amato
Alison D’Amato (MA, Laban, 2006) is a creator and performer of movement-based art living in New York City.
- Ana Catalina Roman
Ana Catalina Roman is a William Forsythe guest assistant, staging some of his ballets, teaching some of his repertoire and teaching "William Forsythe Improvisation Technologies".
- Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Ana Sánchez-Colberg, London-based Puerto Rican choreographer and dancer has gained an international reputation as a choreographer of dance-theatre, which is novel and distinct.
- Anita Donaldson Ph.D.
Dr Anita Donaldson OAM is currently Dean of the School of Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, having come there via Laban, and the University of Adelaide in Australia. She has a long association with Laban, having first come to Laurie Grove in 1979 to undertake the Diploma in Education.
- Ann Kipling Brown Ph.D.
Dr. Ann Kipling Brown is a professor of dance education at the University of Regina (Canada).
- Anna Carlisle
Anna Carlisle, MA MBE is President of the Laban Guild. She is a freelance practitioner, choreographer and Director of the Phoenix Project, a Professional Development Course in Laban Studies.
- Annabel Rutherford
Following a career in the performing arts as a dancer and an actor, Annabel Rutherford is studying for her PhD in English and Drama at York University, Toronto.
- Anne Daye
- Athanasia Kontonikou
Athanasia Kontonikou, who is originally from Greece, trained at Rallou Manou Higher Dance Institution (RMHDI) and completed her, studies at Leeds University gaining an MA in Performance Choreography.
- Bala Sarasvati
Bala Sarasvati is Jane Willson Professor in Arts at The University of Georgia Department of Dance and Artistic Director, CORE Concert Dance Company.
- Barbara Stuiber Ph.D.
Dr Barbara Stuiber is a Doctor of Sport Science. She studied Mathematics, Pedagogy, History and Literature. She trained in ancient dance forms, T’ai Chi and dance therapy.
- Cadence Whittier
Cadence Whittier received her MFA from the University of Utah and her certification in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals (LMA/BF) from Integrated Movement Studies.
- Caroline Lamb
Caroline Lamb has a wealth of experience as a freelance choreographer, movement director and dancer in opera, theatre, TV and pure dance and as a freelance lecturer in movement studies.
- Catherine Foley Ph.D.
Dr Catherine Foley designed and is course director of both the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland; she also supervises doctorate research in dance at the Academy.
- Charles Gambetta
Conductor/composer Charles Gambetta is on the music faculties of Guilford College and Greensboro College.
- Chris Clow
A former member of the all male dance company Positive Action, Chris holds a BTEC Diploma in Art and Design and a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre from Laban. He has presented his own work both nationally and internationally, and is regularly commissioned as filmmaker and lighting designer.
- Claudine Swann
Claudine Swann has been Inspector for Dance Education at the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium since 1986.
- Corinne Jola
Corinne Jola is a researcher in cognitive neuroscience and dance.
- Darren Royston
Darren Royston was educated at Cambridge University and trained at LABAN Centre, receiving M.A. (Distinction) in 1996.
- Dee Reynolds
Dee Reynolds is Professor of French at the University of Manchester.
- Dianne Dulicai Ph.D.
Dianne Dulicai, Ph.D., ADTR, is Senior Consultant, Hahnemann Creative Arts Therapies Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
- Dick McCaw
Dick McCaw co-founded the Actor’s Touring Company (1978 – present) and the Medieval Players (1981 – 1992) and was Artistic Director of the International Workshop Festival from 1993 – 2001.
- Dilys Price
Dilys Price OBE is Director of Touch Trust. Teacher’s Certificate; BEd (Hons); MEd. Senior Lecturer in Movement & Dance, UWIC.
- Elissa Yu
- Frederick Curry
Frederick Curry teaches in New York University’s Dance Education Program, where he focuses on pedagogic practices supporting systems of dance training.
- Gisela Peters-Rohse
Born 1938. Vocational training with Lola Rogge, Hamburg, theatre engagements, re-training as dance teacher.
- Gordon Curl
Gordon Curl MA MEd pioneered Laban’s work with men students at Bretton Hall College of Music Art and Drama in the mid-1950s and researched Laban’s ‘Philosophic Foundations’ in the 60s.
- Hedda Lausberg
Hedda Lausberg, Prof. Dr. med., Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Dance therapist (BVT), Neurologist, Psychiatrist, co-founder of the Berlin Gesture Center.
- Isabel Marques Ph.D.
Dr Isabel Marques: MA in Dance Studies (Laban Centre, 1989), PhD in Education (São Paulo University, 1996).
- Isabelle Dambricourt
Isabelle Dambricourt had a background in publishing and arts administration. She left her career to pursue her passion for contemporary dance and has just completed a Diploma in Dance Studies at Laban.
- Jacqueline Smith-Autard Ph.D.
Dr Jacqueline Smith-Autard: Five years secondary teaching prefaced lecturing in five colleges/universities for 45 years – mostly delivering dance teacher education.
- Jacqueline Waltz
Jacqueline Waltz, ADMT UK registered dance movement therapist. She specialises in creative expressive dance movement therapy with older adults and special needs populations using the Hilde Holger Method.
- James McBride
James McBride is an MPA Practitioner, director of a management consultancy firm (www.coaction.dk) in Denmark, and the European coordinator for the Institute of Movement Pattern Analysis (www.iompa.com).
- Jane Carr Ph.D.
Jane Carr spent many years developing access to dance in South London while also working on a number of mixed media collaborative arts projects.
- Jean Jarrell
Jean Jarrell is Senior Lecturer at Laban in charge of Notation Studies.
- Jeff Meiners
Jeff Meiners is a lecturer at the University of South Australia’s School of Education in Adelaide.
- Joachim Eijlander
Joachim Eijlander graduated in 2002 as a performing cellist in the Netherlands.
- Johan Borghäll
Johan Borghäll is Assistant professor at University of Southern Denmark, body expression teacher at the actor school in Odense, head of a private school (movement communication and movement therapy).
- Johan Stjernholm
Johan Stjernholm is currently doing PhD research on contemporary choreography at University of the Arts London.
- Joukje Kolff
Joukje Kolff received an MSc in Computational Linguistics (University of Amsterdam) and MFA in Dance (Ohio State University).
- Julia Gleich
Julia Gleich, MA MFA, is Ballet Lecturer at LABAN and Head of Choreography at London Studio Centre.
- Juliet Chambers
Juliet Chambers, MA, CMA, trained as an Actress and later in Somatic Studies and Labanalysis at the University of Surrey. She teaches Laban for Actors and works as an Actress and Director for the organisation Don’t Feed the Poets. She teaches at E15 Acting School applying LMA to Actor - training.
- Karen Bond Ph.D.
Dr. Karen Bond is a professor of dance at Temple University (USA), where she teaches courses on experiential research methods, pedagogy, and sociological perspectives of dance.
- Karen Bradley
Professor Karen Bradley is Director of Graduate Studies in Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, a faculty member of the Certificate Program in Laban Movement Studies and the author of the forthcoming book, Rudolf Laban, for Routledge's series on twentieth-century performance practitioners.
- Katia Savrami Ph.D.
Katia Savrami is Choreographer, Dance Analyst and Theoretician. M A and Ph D in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre.
- Kedzie Penfield
Kedzie Penfield qualified as a Movement Analyst in NYC and apprenticed with Irmgard Bartenieff before moving to Scotland in the 1970’s.
- Linda Ashley
Linda Ashley (M.A., University of London) is Senior Dance Lecturer and Research Leader at AUT University, School of Sport and Recreation, New Zealand.
- Linda Schirmer
Linda Schirmer is studying at the University of Leipzig and is a graduate assistant for Prof. Dr. Inge Baxmann.
- Loretta Livingston
Loretta Livingston is a downtown Los Angeles-based contemporary dance artist.
- Lorna Sanders Ph.D.
Lorna Sanders’ Ph.D. focused on dance in education.
- Madalena Victorino
Madalena Victorino leads the Department of Arts and Pedagogy at the Cultural Centre of Belém, Portugal.
- Maggie Killingbeck
Maggie Killingbeck has an MPhil from De Montfort University. She is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire where she leads the PGCE Dance course.
- Maria Karagianni
Maria Karagianni (MA Media Design Piet Zwart Institute 2008) is a media artist recently involved in cultural studies at the University of Amsterdam with a focus in Intellectual Property.
- Marion North Ph.D.
Marion North CBE PhD trained with Laban, Sylvia Bodmer and Lisa Ullmann. She worked with Rudolf Laban intensively for the last nine years of his life.
- Martha Davis
Martha Davis, Ph.D., C.M.A., developed the precursor of the Movement Psychodiagnostic Inventory in the late 60's.
- Melanie Clarke
Melanie Clarke graduated from Laban with a BA Hons and an MA Dance Studies. In 1998 Melanie joined the Laban faculty teaching release-based Contemporary technique and Labanotation.
- Michael Huxley
Michael Huxley is a researcher and Principal Lecturer in Dance at De Montfort University.
- Michael Platt
Michael Platt is a Learning and Teaching Adviser for Suffolk County Council. His pedagogical and creative practice with young people is inspired by Laban’s movement analysis.
- Milca Leon
Taught Choreological Studies at the Laban Centre, Movement for Actors at Central School of Speech and Drama (London), Choreography and Technique at the Dance Academy in Jerusalem.
- Miriam Huberman
Miriam Huberman combines choreology, injury prevention, dance history and dance education in most of her work.
- Monique Kroepfli
Monique Kroepfli completed her dance studies with an MA at LABAN in 1995. She was a member of dance faculty at Basel University (Switzerland) from 1996 to 2007.
- Nicholas Ward
Nicholas Ward joined The Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University Belfast in 2006 to pursue a PhD in movement based instrument design.
- Nigel Stewart
Nigel Stewart is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, and is the Artistic Director of Sap Dance.
- Pam Woods
Teaching fellow at the University of Exeter and independent dance artist, Pam has developed an international profile for her workshops, choreography and performances since obtaining her PhD in Performance Practice.
- Paula Salosaari Ph.D.
Dr Paula Salosaari holds a PhD from The Theatre Academy in Helsinki, Finland and a MA in Dance Studies from Laban Centre, London.
- Penelope Best
Penelope Best, PGCE, MCAT, ITLM, SrDMT: Senior Dance Movement Psychotherapy clinician, supervisor, facilitator, and researcher
- Rachael Riggs Leyva
Rachael Riggs Leyva is a second year graduate student at The Ohio State University's Department of Dance.
- Ramsay Burt
Ramsay Burt is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University. His publications include The Male Dancer (1995, revised 2007), Alien Bodies (1997) and Judson Dance Theater (2006).
- Rosemary Brandt
Rosemary Brandt, MA, is Year One Undergraduate Studies Co-ordinator and Lecturer in Choreological Studies at Laban.
- Sarah Burkhalter
Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian living and working in Geneva, Switzerland. She is interested in the interplay of dance and built spaces, and recently devoted her degree to their particular connections in the Laban Centre.
- Selma Landen Odom
Selma Landen Odom directs the MA and PhD programs in Dance and Dance Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on teachers and transmission in dance and music.
- Shakti Zapata
Shakti Zapata is a dancer and choreographer from Spain.
- Susan Imus
Susan Imus chairs the Department of Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling at Columbia College Chicago.
- Taku Ando
Taku Ando is a professional dancer, currently studying choreology at LABAN.
- Thalia Grigoriadou
Thalia Grigoriadou is practicing architecture with a Diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- Tracy Collier
Tracy Collier completed her MA at Laban in 2005, after a varied career as director, actor, singer, dancer.
- Valerie Preston-Dunlop Ph.D.
Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop studied and collaborated with Rudolf Laban for 12 years.
- Vanessa Ewan
Vanessa Ewan is a Senior Lecturer of Movement for Central School of Speech and Drama’s BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen and Co-Course Leader, MA Movement Studies.
- Veronica Jobbins
Veronica Jobbins, MA FRSA, is Head of Professional and Community Studies at Laban where she directs the Education and Community Programme and lectures in Dance Education.
- Yvonne Kower
Yvonne Kower completed the One Year Course in 1991. In 1996 she completed the Master of Art in Media Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Aafje Franken gained her Master in European Dance Theatre Practice at Laban in London in 2005 and graduated as a cellist in the Netherlands in 2002. As a choreographer she collaborates with (semi)- professional dancers and performers of other art disciplines.
The dancers of Aafje Franken Dance Theatre comprise students from dance academies in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Ali is Lecturer at LABAN, London, teaching on the MA Dance Theatre, Professional Diploma and Undergraduate Programmes. She specialises in Choreological Studies, Choreographic Practice and Dance in Education.
Ali graduated from Laban with a BA(Hons)in Dance Theatre and later gained her MA in European Dance Theatre Practice. She has a PGCE in Dance and is an experienced practitioner in both teaching and performance contexts. She has worked closely with Dr. Valerie Preston-Dunlop to develop archeo-choreology; a method by which work is discovered and recreated using Laban's principles of practice and choreological methodologies.
Alison D’Amato (MA, Laban, 2006) is a creator and performer of movement-based art living in New York City.
Alison has presented work at venues throughout the US and at the International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Poland. Her critical writing can be found on The Dance Insider (www.danceinsider.com).
Ana Catalina Roman is a William Forsythe guest assistant, staging some of his ballets, teaching some of his repertoire and teaching "William Forsythe Improvisation Technologies".
She is a permanent teacher for Improvisation and Choreographic Composition and Forsythe repertoire at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Àvila in Madrid. She is also a freelance choreographer.
Ana Sánchez-Colberg, London-based Puerto Rican choreographer and dancer has gained an international reputation as a choreographer of dance-theatre, which is novel and distinct.
Her contribution to the international dance scene has been recognised with the award of a Fellowship by the Swedish Research Council. It is the first time that such award has been made to a dance artist.
She is currently Professor (Visiting) of Choreography and Composition at University College Dance, Stockholm and consultant for the dance programme at AKMI Arts Academy, Athens, Greece.
Dr Anita Donaldson OAM is currently Dean of the School of Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, having come there via Laban, and the University of Adelaide in Australia. She has a long association with Laban, having first come to Laurie Grove in 1979 to undertake the Diploma in Education.
Dr. Ann Kipling Brown is a professor of dance education at the University of Regina (Canada). Her research focuses on pedagogy, the integration of notation in dance programs, and the role of dance in the child’ and adult’s lived world. She is current Chair of Dance and the Child International and a member of the International Council of Kinetography Laban.
Anna Carlisle, MA MBE is President of the Laban Guild. She is a freelance practitioner, choreographer and Director of the Phoenix Project, a Professional Development Course in Laban Studies.
Research interests lie in von Laban’s concepts of ‘Living Architecture’ – Choreutics and their relation to Sacred Geometry.
Following a career in the performing arts as a dancer and an actor, Annabel Rutherford is studying for her PhD in English and Drama at York University, Toronto. She holds MAs in English, Russian Modernism, and Dance History and has published papers on ballet, drama and art history.
Anne Daye is Dance History lecturer at Laban for twentieth and twenty-first century studies. Her principal research field is dance of the Renaissance, from theoretical and historical analysis to practical reconstruction of the dances. She is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the antimasque of the Jacobean masque.
Athanasia Kontonikou, who is originally from Greece, trained at Rallou Manou Higher Dance Institution (RMHDI) and completed her, studies at Leeds University gaining an MA in Performance Choreography.
She is now teaching Ballet and Contemporary dance at all levels of education as well as Dance History in RMHDI. She has produced and presented a respectful amount of dance research material and small-scale choreographic work.
Bala Sarasvati is Jane Willson Professor in Arts at The University of Georgia Department of Dance and Artistic Director, CORE Concert Dance Company.
Bala is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) specializing in the application of movement theory to dance training. Her choreography and teaching approaches have been presented throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Dr Barbara Stuiber is a Doctor of Sport Science. She studied Mathematics, Pedagogy, History and Literature. She trained in ancient dance forms, T’ai Chi and dance therapy.
Cadence Whittier received her MFA from the University of Utah and her certification in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals (LMA/BF) from Integrated Movement Studies.
Currently, she is an Associate Professor in Dance at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York where she teaches courses in LMA/BF, Kinesiology, and Advanced Ballet/Pointe.
Caroline Lamb has a wealth of experience as a freelance choreographer, movement director and dancer in opera, theatre, TV and pure dance and as a freelance lecturer in movement studies.
Recent choreographic work includes Falstaff for Welsh National Opera and the making of her film Remains To Be Seen for her own company Striking Attitudes. Her work has been seen throughout the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Catherine Foley designed and is course director of both the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland; she also supervises doctorate research in dance at the Academy.
She is founder and Chair of Dance Research Forum Ireland, and established and acted as Director of Trάth na gCos, the dance festival at the Irish World Academy, until recently. She choreographed The Sionna Set Dance (2005) and has published, lectured, and given dance workshops internationally.
Conductor/composer Charles Gambetta is on the music faculties of Guilford College and Greensboro College.
He was a speaker at the 2006 Laban and the Performing Arts conference in Bratislava, and his article on Laban training for conductors is published in the premiere issue of the Journal of Laban Movement Studies.
In 2008 he accepted an appointment to the faculty of the prestigious International Institute for Conductors.
A former member of the all male dance company Positive Action, Chris holds a BTEC Diploma in Art and Design and a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre from Laban. He has presented his own work both nationally and internationally, and is regularly commissioned as filmmaker and lighting designer.
Claudine Swann has been Inspector for Dance Education at the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium since 1986.
She has an extensive experience as a dance artist, choreographer, and teacher and has a special interest in ballet and choreology.
Corinne Jola is a researcher in cognitive neuroscience and dance. Her emphasis is to enhance the interdisciplinary understanding between these areas by applying research methods to choreography and by spinning of scientific investigations from dance practice.
Her main research is on body representation, movement perception as well as kinesthetic sensation.
Darren Royston was educated at Cambridge University and trained at LABAN Centre, receiving M.A. (Distinction) in 1996.
Bonnie Bird Choreography Award winner, working in theatre, opera, musicals, TV, film as freelance choreographer. Specialist in historical dances, being appointed the Artistic Director of Nonsuch History & Dance and teaching movement and dance at RADA, London.
Dee Reynolds is Professor of French at the University of Manchester. Her most recent book is Rhythmic Subjects: Uses of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham (Dance Books, 2007). She is Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy’.
Dianne Dulicai, Ph.D., ADTR, is Senior Consultant, Hahnemann Creative Arts Therapies Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. She has 30 years of clinical practice and academic experience.
She founded the graduate programs in dance/movement therapy at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia at the Laban Centre. She served as president of the American Dance Therapy Association, taught and published worldwide.
Dick McCaw co-founded the Actor’s Touring Company (1978 – present) and the Medieval Players (1981 – 1992) and was Artistic Director of the International Workshop Festival from 1993 – 2001.
He is currently Senior Lecturer in Drama at Royal Holloway University of London and a qualified Feldenkrais Practitioner and is working on the Routledge Companion to Laban.
Dilys Price OBE is Director of Touch Trust. Teacher’s Certificate; BEd (Hons); MEd. Senior Lecturer in Movement & Dance, UWIC.
Part of team which built Wales Sports Centre for Disabled, at UWIC, training elite able & disabled athletes together as equals.
Elissa Yu, BSc (Hon) and MEd Dance; Director of Unity Dance Education Fund and United Task in Movement Education. With the scientific view of movement, I embarked to the teaching of creative dance with the elements in Laban Movement Analysis since 1984. During my teachings, I happened to collect the movement into some forms of formulae through which a mutual language helping the teaching-learning process is developed.
Frederick Curry teaches in New York University’s Dance Education Program, where he focuses on pedagogic practices supporting systems of dance training.
He holds an M.A. in Dance Education from NYU, a C.M.A. from Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and a Professional Diploma in Community Dance from Laban Centre London.
Born 1938. Vocational training with Lola Rogge, Hamburg, theatre engagements, re-training as dance teacher.
From 1970 onwards teaching in Cologne, directing the dance department for children at the conservatory and teaching dance pedagogy at Hochschule. Developed her method for children dance, writes, choreographs and teaches in Germany and abroad.
Gordon Curl MA MEd pioneered Laban’s work with men students at Bretton Hall College of Music Art and Drama in the mid-1950s and researched Laban’s ‘Philosophic Foundations’ in the 60s.
He took an MA with distinction in Philosophy at London University and as Chairman of NATFHE Dance promoted conferences and performances with Kurt Jooss, Alwin Nikolais and Martha Graham. Gordon is the Editor of the Laban Guild Movement & Dance Magazine and its Vice President.
Hedda Lausberg, Prof. Dr. med., Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Dance therapist (BVT), Neurologist, Psychiatrist, co-founder of the Berlin Gesture Center.
Her major research interests include the relation between movement behaviour and cognitive, emotional processes and mental illness. Her methodological focus is the development of movement analysis tools for research.
Dr Isabel Marques: MA in Dance Studies (Laban Centre, 1989), PhD in Education (São Paulo University, 1996). Director of Caleidos Dance Co. and Caleidos Institute. Author of Teaching Dance Today and Dancing at Schools (both 5th edition). Responsible for writing and introducing Dance in Brazilian Curriculum (1997). UNESCO´s collaborator for Dance Education issues in Latin America (2002).
Isabelle Dambricourt had a background in publishing and arts administration. She left her career to pursue her passion for contemporary dance and has just completed a Diploma in Dance Studies at Laban.
Dr Jacqueline Smith-Autard: Five years secondary teaching prefaced lecturing in five colleges/universities for 45 years – mostly delivering dance teacher education.
Practical work has always been the seedbed for research contributions to dance education in the form of books, many articles, and latterly, in the context of Bedford Interactive, CD-ROM Resource Packs.
Jacqueline Waltz, ADMT UK registered dance movement therapist.
She specialises in creative expressive dance movement therapy with older adults and special needs populations using the Hilde Holger Method.
She danced with the Isadora Duncan Heritage Group, NYC and was a founding member of Tanz Theatre Wien, Vienna Austria 1981-83.
James McBride is an MPA Practitioner, director of a management consultancy firm (www.coaction.dk) in Denmark, and the European coordinator for the Institute of Movement Pattern Analysis (www.iompa.com).
He holds an M.A. (Dist.) in Dance Studies from LABAN and lectures regularly at the University of Copenhagen, Danish National School of Contemporary Dance and Danish Royal Academy of Music.
Jane Carr spent many years developing access to dance in South London while also working on a number of mixed media collaborative arts projects.
Her experiences prompted her to research aspects of the relationship between what is understood as embodied in dance and its appreciation. For this research she recently received her PhD from Roehampton University. Jane currently lectures at Laban.
Jean Jarrell is Senior Lecturer at Laban in charge of Notation Studies.
She obtained an MA Dance Studies (Laban), a Licence ès Lettres (Grenoble, France) and is a Fellow of ICKL. She trained and performed in France before coming to the UK to teach.
Currently semi retired, she retains some teaching including the Specialist Diploma in Dance Notating.
Jeff Meiners is a lecturer at the University of South Australia’s School of Education in Adelaide.
He has worked widely with artists and teachers in Australia, England and Portugal, is a member of the Australia Council's Dance Board and recently worked with Windmill Performing Arts productions for very young children and their carers.
Joachim Eijlander graduated in 2002 as a performing cellist in the Netherlands.
Joachim is cellist of the Rubens Quartet and won numerous international prizes and has performed in many major halls in Europe. Joachim explores the cello solo repertory and collaborates with dancers of Aafje Franken Dance Theatre.
Johan Borghäll is Assistant professor at University of Southern Denmark, body expression teacher at the actor school in Odense, head of a private school (movement communication and movement therapy). He studied at Laban Art of Movement Centre in 1975-76. Author of books about Movement Communication, Body Language, Education, Capoeira and Salsa.
Johan Stjernholm is currently doing PhD research on contemporary choreography at University of the Arts London.
Having graduated from Laban with a BA in Dance Theatre and an MA in European Dance Theatre Practice, Johan is also working as the Artistic Director for the award-winning, experimental dance company SpaceEngineering.
Joukje Kolff received an MSc in Computational Linguistics (University of Amsterdam) and MFA in Dance (Ohio State University).
She assisted Ann Hutchinson Guest in writing the Advanced Labanotation Textbook issues, has taught Labanotation at Laban and Roehampton University and is in the research committee of ICKL.
Joukje currently works in the webteam of Friends of the Earth International in Amsterdam.
Julia Gleich, MA MFA, is Ballet Lecturer at LABAN and Head of Choreography at London Studio Centre.
She is Director of Gleich Dances New York/London, President of Norte Maar, NY, and a master teacher for Burklyn Ballet, Vermont. She has presented at CORPS de Ballet and is interested in ballet as a modern/ contemporary form.
Juliet Chambers, MA, CMA, trained as an Actress and later in Somatic Studies and Labanalysis at the University of Surrey. She teaches Laban for Actors and works as an Actress and Director for the organisation Don’t Feed the Poets. She teaches at E15 Acting School applying LMA to Actor - training.
Dr. Karen Bond is a professor of dance at Temple University (USA), where she teaches courses on experiential research methods, pedagogy, and sociological perspectives of dance. Her research focuses on participant meanings of dance in education, therapy and performance. She is archive officer of Dance and the Child International.
Professor Karen Bradley is Director of Graduate Studies in Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, a faculty member of the Certificate Program in Laban Movement Studies and the author of the forthcoming book, Rudolf Laban, for Routledge's series on twentieth-century performance practitioners.
Katia Savrami is Choreographer, Dance Analyst and Theoretician. M A and Ph D in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre.
Lecturer at University of Patras and at the State School of Dance, Athens as a choreologist. Member at the International Editorial Board in Research in Dance Education, UK. Tutor of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London .
Kedzie Penfield qualified as a Movement Analyst in NYC and apprenticed with Irmgard Bartenieff before moving to Scotland in the 1970’s.
As a CMA, MPA Practitioner and Senior Dance Movement Therapist she is Head of Movement Studies at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh where she teaches actors and conducts research in various fields using Laban Movement Analysis to engage with movement in different contexts.
Linda Ashley (M.A., University of London) is Senior Dance Lecturer and Research Leader at AUT University, School of Sport and Recreation, New Zealand.
Linda has extensive academic, choreographic and educational experience in dance. She moved to New Zealand in 1997 and is currently pursuing doctorate studies at The University of Auckland.
Linda Schirmer is studying at the University of Leipzig and is a graduate assistant for Prof. Dr. Inge Baxmann). She worked on several projects with the Tanzarchiv Leipzig and the Institute of Theatre Studies in Leipzig. During her studies she spent one year at the University College of Cork in Ireland.
Loretta Livingston is a downtown Los Angeles-based contemporary dance artist. A multi-award winning choreographer/performer, Livingston mixes movement, vocal text, video art and live music.
She works abroad, currently in Korea, Singapore and Turkey. Livingston is a professor of Dance at the University of California, Irvine, and is a CLMA.
Lorna Sanders’ PhD focused on dance in education. She lectures on a post graduate diploma/MA in Holland and is co-ordinator for a teacher training programme in ballet education at the Royal Ballet School/Royal Opera House.
The author of two books, Lorna is currently working on one for Akram Khan’s Company.
Madalena Victorino leads the Department of Arts and Pedagogy at the Cultural Centre of Belém, Portugal.
She has worked extensively in the fields of choreography and dance education and around the relationship between art and society.
Madalena has created several site-specific works that involve collaboration between professional artists and amateurs of all ages and backgrounds.
Maggie Killingbeck has an MPhil from De Montfort University. She is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire where she leads the PGCE Dance course.
Maggie has been Chair of the Laban Guild for Movement and Dance since 2006. She is a member of Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund Management Committee.
Maria Karagianni (MA Media Design Piet Zwart Institute 2008) is a media artist recently involved in cultural studies at the University of Amsterdam with a focus in Intellectual Property.
Her work has been evolved within different media such as photography, graphic and software design, with which she has reflected on language and movement. More about her project about to present can be found on http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/}mkaragianni/dasdance.
Marion North CBE PhD trained with Laban, Sylvia Bodmer and Lisa Ullmann. She worked with Rudolf Laban intensively for the last nine years of his life.
Through the Youth Advisory Bureau (Y.A.B) that Laban created, advice was given to young people about possible future career opportunities. Individuals came to work with him for personal, professional or therapeutic development.
After 1958, Marion North became the Principal and Chief Executive of the Laban Centre, for the remainder of her professional career.
Martha Davis, Ph.D., C.M.A., developed the precursor of the Movement Psychodiagnostic Inventory in the late 60's.
She has conducted nonverbal communication research on a number of topics, including therapist-patient interactions and clinical state changes in psychotherapy, and published numerous articles and books on nonverbal communication.
Her latest research is a ten-year study of videotaped criminal confessions.
Melanie Clarke graduated from Laban with a BA Hons and an MA Dance Studies. In 1998 Melanie joined the Laban faculty teaching release-based Contemporary technique and Labanotation. She also works as a dancer and choreographer and is currently touring her solo work "Half of One" and a Quartet “Too…”
Michael Huxley is a researcher and Principal Lecturer in Dance at De Montfort University.
He is published in several books. He is Chair of the CORD Editorial Board for Dance Research Journal; Senior Academic Adviser Dance for PALATINE; Conference Chair for the CORD/CEPA Conference on Dance Pedagogy DMU June 2009.
Michael Platt is a Learning and Teaching Adviser for Suffolk County Council. His pedagogical and creative practice with young people is inspired by Laban’s movement analysis.
He works nationally and internationally promoting Laban’s work in the context of dance education. Michael is director of Suffolk Youth Theatre, one of the countries leading youth theatre groups.
M.A.D.S Laban Centre – Choreological Studies, Choreography and Education in Dance.
Taught Choreological Studies at the Laban Centre, Movement for Actors at Central School of Speech and Drama (London), Choreography and Technique at the Dance Academy in Jerusalem.
Now teaches dance and Laban Analysis for dance teachers, actors, and therapists in various institutions in Israel.
Miriam Huberman combines choreology, injury prevention, dance history and dance education in most of her work.
BA in History (National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1986). MA in Dance Studies (Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, 1991). Currently, she is involved in the creation of Tampico’s first contemporary dance company, teaching injury prevention and choreology.
Monique Kroepfli completed her dance studies with an MA at LABAN in 1995. She was a member of dance faculty at Basel University (Switzerland) from 1996 to 2007.
Monique is a founder member of lost&found dance collective (Switzerland). Since 1997 she has been working as a freelance choreographer, dancer and pedagogue.
Nicholas Ward joined The Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University Belfast in 2006 to pursue a PhD in movement based instrument design.
Prior to joining SARC Nicholas obtained an M.A. from Trinity College Dublin in Multimedia Systems, an MSc in Music Technology from Dublin Institute of Technology and a B.Sc from the National University of Ireland Galway in Applied Physics and Electronics.
Nigel Stewart is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, and is the Artistic Director of Sap Dance.
He has danced with various UK and European companies, and as a solo artist.
As a choreographer and director he has worked with Theatre Nova, Theatreworks, Triangle and many other UK companies, and Odin Teatret in Denmark.
He has published several articles and chapters, and co-edited the book Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts (Peter Lang 2005).
Teaching fellow at the University of Exeter and independent dance artist, Pam has developed an international profile for her workshops, choreography and performances since obtaining her PhD in Performance Practice.
Currently she is touring her solo adaptation of ‘The Runner’, choreographed by Deborah Hay.
Dr Paula Salosaari holds a PhD from The Theatre Academy in Helsinki, Finland and a MA in Dance Studies from Laban Centre, London.
She is currently working as a dance teacher and lecturer in Academy of Music and Dance, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio Finland.
Penelope Best, PGCE, MCAT, ITLM, SrDMT: Senior Dance Movement Psychotherapy clinician, supervisor, facilitator, and researcher; Honorary Fellow ADMT UK; Honorary Research Fellow, Roehampton University; President European Network of Dance Movement Therapists; Co-ordinator DMP Programme, Warsaw; Core tutor DMP Programme, Rotterdam; Private Clinical Supervision practice; Mentor/ consultant, creativity action research within education UK.
Rachael Riggs Leyva is a second year graduate student at The Ohio State University's Department of Dance.
She is currently directing two solos choreographed Jean Erdman from Labanotation score, and is notating Trisha Brown repertory for her MFA project.
Rachael is also interested in methodologies for teaching Labanotation to undergraduates.
Ramsay Burt is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University. His publications include The Male Dancer (1995, revised 2007), Alien Bodies (1997) and Judson Dance Theater (2006).
In 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. With Professor Susan Foster, he is founder editor of Discourses in Dance.
Rosemary Brandt, MA, is Year One Undergraduate Studies Co-ordinator and Lecturer in Choreological Studies at Laban.
She has years of experience as a professional dancer and teacher. She developed a unique approach to choreology at Laban and spent more than ten developing her work in this area and teaching abroad.
She is highly regarded in Europe and recognised as being an outstanding educator.
Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian living and working in Geneva, Switzerland. She is interested in the interplay of dance and built spaces, and recently devoted her degree to their particular connections in the Laban Centre.
Her current research now focuses on kinaesthetic perception in turn-of-the 20th century performers. Recent performances - outdoors and indoors - include the Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy Excerpts of a Lost Forest and RoS Indexical by Yvonne Rainer.
Selma Landen Odom directs the MA and PhD programs in Dance and Dance Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on teachers and transmission in dance and music.
She has published articles and reviews since the 1960s and co-edited the anthology Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories (2004).
Shakti Zapata is a dancer and choreographer from Spain. She has worked as therapist in the areas of geriatric, psychogeriatrics and mental health.
During her free time, she dedicated herself to arts and dance activities. She just completed a Diploma in dance Studies at Laban. She is now part of the Amici Company, a dance theatre integration group.
Susan Imus chairs the Department of Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling at Columbia College Chicago.
She co-developed the Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis housed in the department. She is past chair of the Committee on Approval for the American Dance Therapy Association and received the 2006 ADTA Excellence in Education award.
Taku Ando is a professional dancer, currently studying choreology at LABAN.
As inspired and informed by his mentor Rosemary Brandt, he has applied her choreological approach in his dance practice. He is now working on his own movement research and exploring his dance language.
Thalia Grigoriadou is practicing architecture with a Diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She received her Masters degree in Design Studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her research interest is centered on the design of the total experience in performance space and currently co-teaches at the Department of Architecture in Xanthi.
Tracy Collier completed her MA at Laban in 2005, after a varied career as director, actor, singer, dancer. She is now Head of Movement at East 15 drama school and has her own theatre company Time4Change which she started in 2007 to allow her to research and develop her own work.
Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop studied and collaborated with Rudolf Laban for 12 years.
She has researched Laban's life and work and has curated The Laban Collection of documentation and memorabilia. She is author of a number of books which focus on Rudolf Laban including the award winning Rudolf Laban, an extraordinary life and Dance and the performative: A choreological perspective.
Her recent DVDs include The American Invasion and Laban Dances 1923-28. Her current research projects are with William Forsythe's company and on the spiritual dimension of Rudolf Laban's work.
Vanessa Ewan is a Senior Lecturer of Movement for Central School of Speech and Drama’s BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen and Co-Course Leader, MA Movement Studies.
She has been working with Laban’s vocabulary within ‘Actor Movement’ for twenty-five years, specialising in the development of the actor’s expression, the interplay between thought action, feeling action and physical action.
Veronica Jobbins, MA FRSA, is Head of Professional and Community Studies at Laban where she directs the Education and Community Programme and lectures in Dance Education.
She has taken an active interest in promoting and developing dance in schools throughout her career and was instrumental in the formation of the National Dance Teachers’ Association in 1988, of which she is currently Chairperson.
Yvonne Kower completed the One Year Course in 1991. In 1996 she completed the Master of Art in Media Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She currently lectures in movement for actors, and teaches yoga, applying the Laban Star in her work.
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