Membership Directory

Claude Gamba studied ballet at Paris Opera ballet School and Rosella Hightower Dance Center in Cannes. He started as a professional in 2000 at Paris Opera Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Scala di Milano, Ballet de Monte Carlo.
Principal Dancer with Ballet Trockadero in 2008 and Nice Opera Ballet in 2012.
He danced different ballet styles, and interpreted ballets of choreographers such as Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Serge Lifar, Ohad Naharin, Glen Tetley, Jerome Robbins, Dwight Rhoden…
He worked many years with Wilfride Piollet on her technique “Barres Flexibles” and was introduced to Kinetography Laban by Noëlle Simonet.
He studied further with Noëlle Simonet at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, and graduated in 2018.

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.

MA, CMA, LOD Certification Specialist and Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She received National Dance Education Organization’s Outstanding Dance Educator Award in Higher Education (2006) for bringing national recognition to the dance program. Her research focuses on the assessment- based teaching she created using Language of Dance® and Laban Movement Analysis, and those she developed at the Dance Education Laboratory in New York City. The Associate Director for the Language of Dance Center, USA, she teaches for the LODC and DEL. Gingrasso serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Movement Arts Literacy and for Dance Education in Practice and Journal of Movement Arts Literacy. She has served on the NDEO Board as the Director of Resources Review and as the Treasurer of the International Council of Kinetography Laban.

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.