Membership Directory

Clarisa Falcón Valerdi, studied ballet in Mexico and Cuba, contemporary dance in New York at the Merce Cunningham Studio and the Nikolais and Louis Dance Lab. She danced in different independent ballet and contemporary dance companies. She worked briefly in the National Dance Company of the INBA. She has worked in the main dance schools of Mexico and has been invited to teach in Guatemala, El Salvador and Bolivia. She is currently a teacher of ballet, contemporary dance, motif notation and Labanotation at the National School of Dance Nellie and Gloria Campobello of the INBA and at the School of Dance of Mexico City. She has a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy and a master’s degree in education. She holds the teachers certification in Labanotation of the Dance Notation Bureau.

Research Panel Member, 2023-2026

Siân Ferguson is a dance teacher, notator and director with many years experience in the US and Europe. She trained at the Laban Centre in London. After completing her Masters Degree in Dance Research and Reconstruction at the City College of New York, she danced for several years in New York City. She has notated at venues including the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Dance Theater of Harlem, and the Juilliard School. Her notated works can be found at the New York Public Library. She has taught at City College of New York, SUNY Purchase, Hofstra University, Stanford University and others. She staged L’Après-midi d’un Faune for the Oakland Ballet. She currently resides in San Jose where she teaches Contemporary Dance at San Jose Dance Theatre.

Dancer, teacher and researcher of dance and education, graduated from Academia de la Danza Mexicana (ADM), where she studied pedagogy, education, and artistic research. She has a PhD in Social Sciences from the UAM-Xochimilco. She is a LODC Certified LOD teacher. She is member of the National System of Researchers. She was a teacher and director of the ADM. Since 1995, she has been a researcher in the Cenidi Danza José Limón. She has researched dance education.
She is the author of: Danza y currículo. La Academia de la Danza Mexicana y el bailarín integral (México, INBA/ Cenidi Danza José Limón, 2009); Escenarios rituales. Una aproximación antropológica a la práctica educativa dancística profesional (INBA/Colegio de Estudios de Posgrado de la Ciudad de México, 2005); and with Josefina Lavalle, Programa de desarrollo de la creativ- idad por medio del movimiento y la danza. Paquetes Didácticos (México, Conaculta/ INBA, 2006). She is a teacher in the Master of Desarrollo Educativo, línea de Educación Artística at the UPN, and in the Master of Dance Research at the Cenidi Danza.

ICKL Treasurer, 2024-2027

Mara Frazier is Curator of Dance at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at The Ohio State University. Previously, she was a Media Designer at McGraw-Hill Education. She has been a Dance Specialist at The Arts and College Preparatory Academy in Columbus, Ohio; a lecturer with the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, and a Dance Heritage Coalition Hidden Collections Fellow for TRI’s Special Collections Library. Mara has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from The Ohio State University, an Intermediate Teaching Certification in Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau, and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Dance, also from Ohio State.

János Fügedi PhD (1953) is a senior researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Humanities, Institute of Musicology. He notates and analyzes East-European traditional dances, leads the internet publishing of a dance knowledgebase, author/co-author of dance monographs. He’s a professor at the Hungarian Dance Academy teaching Laban-Kinetography for BA and MA students. He’s been a fellow of ICKL since 1989 and the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees since 2007. He was a member of Research Panel between 1991-1997, chaired the Research Panel at the 1997 conference of ICKL. He got his PhD in Education and Sport Sciences in 2003 at the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and was rewarded by the Hungarian Dance Association the price “For Dance Research” in 2013.