Membership Directory

Naoko Abe is a sociologist, specialising in social interaction and human movement, with a research focus in Robotics. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 2012. In 2011, she graduated in kinetography Laban from the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP). In 2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems – French National Centre for Scientific Research (LAAS-CNRS) in Toulouse. In 2016-2017, she was a Renault-Junior International Research Fellow at the EHESS France-Japan Foundation (FFJ). Since July 2018, she has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, the University of Sydney.

Certified Professional Labanotator, Stager, and Teacher. Sandra notated 50+ works as resident notator for the Paul Taylor Dance Company and DNB staff notator. She has staged works around the world including the Paris Opera, La Scala, White Oak Dance Project, and American Dance Festival. Sandra also holds Benesh Institute advanced notation and elementary teaching certificates. She has published articles in Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher, and conference proceedings of both CORD and ICKL.
In the fall of 2017, Sandra and Leslie Rotman launched Aberkalns & Rotman Dance Notation Consultants at http://www.dancenotation.info/.
Sandra is currently an Archive Project Associate with Mark Morris Dance Group and their Dances for the Future Labanotator, which is part of MMDG’s Above & Beyond project.

Born in Casablanca (Morocco). In 1964 after receiving an award in operetta and staging at Casablanca’s Conservatory she studied Kinetography Laban with Jacqueline Challet-Haas at École supérieure d’études chorégraphiques in Paris and received a notation certificate in 1966.

Interested by the graphicsof Kinetography and the precision it would get with mechanical means, she conceived in the 70’s a typing method for the notation L/N “ball” for IBM Selectric typewriter. Among others she typed the scores of Screenplay (Job Sanders) and Confetti(Gerald Arpino) for the DNB.

In the 90’s, with the development of computers, Alagna developed GraphLaban, a library of notation symbols to use with architectural design software, as well as a training guide. Since then, she has been copying scores for notation students and individuals at the Centre national du mouvement and for publications. She also translated in Spanish-language some teaching manuals, facilitating the introduction of notation in Spain.

She has a BA and a PhD in Aesthetics by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Her PhD research focused on dance documentation. She has Certificates in Advanced Labanotation and Delivery Language of Dance. For a decade, she taught movement analysis, notation and Language of Dance to undergraduates at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza “María de Ávila” in Madrid. She has also examined on Labanotation at the Laban Centre in London, and taught degree courses on dance anthropology and postgraduate seminars at the London Contemporary Dance School. She was a member of the Contexts, Culture and Creativity: Enriching E-Learning in Dance project at the University of Surrey (2011-13). She has been a long standing member of ICKL acting as Assistant Treasurer (2000-2005) and of the Language of Dance Association. In 2010 she became a member of the Dance Research Association (Danza+Investigación) in Spain, and in 2014 she became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Language of Dance Trust in the UK. She has presented numerous papers at conferences, published specialist articles and book chapters. She currently works in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University in the UK.

ICKL Assistant Treasurer, 2018-2021,
ICKL Research Panel Member, 2024-2027

Béatrice Aubert studied ballet and contempory dance at Nantes Conservatoire national de région then at Lyon Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse, and performed in various dances companies. She passed her teacher’s degrees both in contemporary dance and ballet. For 12 years, starting in 1997, she worked with Béatrice Massin as dancer, assistant choreographer, choreographer and teacher. From 1994, she studied Kinetography Laban with Jacqueline Challet-Haas at Paris Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse and graduated in 1999; she became an ICKL member in the same year. She is the author of dance scores for choreographers including Dominique Bagouet, Claude Brumachon, Beau Geste & Lolita, and Béatrice Massin. After teaching dance five years in Morocco, she is now based in the city of Morlaix, in French Brittany. She has been a Fellow of ICKL since 2015.