Membership Directory

Jorge Gayon, PhD, is a movement-actor, choreographer/stage director, choreologist, and ethnoscenologist who specializes in expressive movement. He is the author of the Laban-Decroux project, in which Laban’s movement analysis tools are applied to the study of Etienne Decroux’s actor training method. This project led him to the conception of the LAMA (Laban’s Active Movement Analysis) perspective for training performers and composing/coaching performances. A member of the ICKL since 1995, he has collaborated with the Laboratory for Research on Performing Arts (CNRS-France) and CENIDI-Danza “José Limón” (INBA-Mexico) and is a founding member of the Centro Mexicano de Estudios Coreológicos, A.C.

Susan H. Gingrasso, MA, CMA, LOD Master Teacher Trainer and 2025 NDEO Lifetime Achievement Awardee. Susan developed the dance major at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. She led the program to national prominence as program head. As ICKLs Treasurer, 2012-2016, she helped reorganize the membership process.  She has presented workshops about Language of Dance at ICKL conferences. 

Susan has served the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) in many capacities. The Associate Editor for Dance Education in Practice Journal’s, she authored the Practical Resources for Dance Educators column. She supported emerging and established NDEO authors through the “What to Publish” workshops at NDEO conferences. In 2025, Susan received NDEO’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Ann Hutchinson Guest, Susan’s mentor, received the same award from NDEO in 2003

As Executive Director of the Language of Dance® Center (LODC), Susan’s vision and direction have guided the LODC to achieving national prominence as the go-to place for dance literacy. My LOD colleagues and I developed Guest’s (1918-2022) Movement Alphabet and Motif Notation into a sophisticated Motif Notation-centered pedagogy. This joyful, student-centered approach to developing dance literacy underpins our programs and courses. This pedagogy engages, uplifts, energizes, and renews dance educators’ artistic and pedagogical practices. My LOD colleague, Teresa Heiland, an ICKL member, beautifully articulated the pedagogy in her 2023 book, Leaping into Dance Literacy through the Language of Dance® Approach, University of Chicago Press.

Susan is indebted to Ann Hutchinson Guest, our Language of Dance founder, for her incredible gift to dance and dance education. She is grateful to her LOD colleagues who, like Susan are passionate about empowering the dance education community to harness the power of the Language of Dance Approach. They aim to inspire educators and students alike to teach, learn, and embody movement in ways that amplify their dance experiences.

Doris Green, MA. Retired Fulbright Scholar/US Department Cultural Specialist; President, Pan African Performing Arts Preservation Association. She is an ethnomusicologist, musician, dancer, certified teacher of Labanotation, creator of Greenotation, a system for notating the percussion instruments of African ensembles. Greenotation enables one to notate the music, and align it with the dance movements, creating an integrated score with a conterminous relationship just as it is in Africa. Born in Brooklyn, did her undergraduate and graduate studies at Brooklyn College and New York University respectively. She was a faculty member at Brooklyn College wining three CUNY Faculty research Awards. She also taught at New York University, New School for Social Research, and Adelphi University. Her awards enabled her to teach and conduct research throughout Africa. With the Fulbright award she taught in Ivory Coast and the Gambia.

Willow Green is a rising junior at Kenyon College studying Dance and Arabic. Willow focuses their dance studies on inclusive practices and community building, and they are interested in dance as a communal form of storytelling. Additionally, they serve on Kenyon’s LGBTQ+ and Transgender committees and serve as a peer mentor through Kenyon’s KEEP scholarship. When they’re not studying, they enjoy volunteering at Kenyon’s student-run farm and writing poetry.

ICKL Assistant Secretary, 2018-2019; Research Panel Member, 2024-2027

Graduated from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris (1998), she has notated works by Ashley Page, the Crowsnest Trio, Liu Feng-Shueh, Thierry Malandain, Anthony Egea and Mourad Merzouki as well as variations from the ballet repertoire. She is member of ICKL from 2005, fellow of ICKL since 2009, member of Research Panel from 2011 to 2015, assistant treasurer of the ICKL board of trustees from 2011 to 2017, and currently assistant secretary.