Si-Hyun Yoo, MA, PhD, is a Certified Movement Analyst as well as a certified Labanotation teacher. She studied Korean dance at Ewha Womans University in Korea, and Motif Writing and Labanotation at The Ohio State University. She received her PhD in Art Education at the OSU with Manuel Barkan Dissertation Fellowship Award in 2000. She has notated a number of traditional Korean dances and taught at many Korean Universities. She worked on the national research project “Oral History of Korean Arts” for the Korea National Archives of the Arts, and served as a head researcher at The Korea Dance Resource Center. She is a co-founder of the Korea Laban Movement Institute in Seoul, Korea, and currently works as the Director of Education at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.