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Sinibaldo De Rosa explores the role of body movement in processes of socio-cultural differentiation across multiple performance practices and ethnographic contexts. He earned a PhD in Drama from the University of Exeter, a Diploma in Movement Notation (Laban) from the CNSMDP, a ResMA in Turkish Studies from Leiden University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Bologna University. He published on the journal Performance Research, and in the edited books Ritual Tanz Bühne and Aesthetic and Performative Dimensions of Alevi Cultural Heritage. He is a member of the Society for Dance Research Executive Committee, a massage therapist and a carer for the elderly. In 2020, he was awarded an Ivor Guest Research Grant to notate extracts of Yeşim Coşkun’s piece 4Kapı 40Makam (‘4Doors 40Planes’).

He is a dancer and scholar, specializing in representation methods for movement and dance (movement notation, digital representation methods, software development). He studied Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation and Kinetography Laban, and obtained a PhD at the University of Leipzig. Since 1994 Henner Drewes has been teaching notation and movement. In 2006 he was granted the Dance Sciences Award NRW for his proposed project “From Notation to Computer Generated 3D Animation”. Together with Claudia Jeschke he initiated the research project “Visualizing (the Derra de Moroda) Dance Archives” in the Department for Dance Studies at Salzburg University. Currently he teaches Kinetography Laban and coordinates the MA Movement Notation Movement Analysis study programme at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.