Membership Directory

Patty Harrington Delaney is an Associate Professor in the Division of Dance at Southern Methodist University where she teaches choreography and Dance and Musical Theatre History. She served as chair of the Division from 2012-2018. Patty is a specialist in Laban Studies and holds certifications in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals, Directing from Labanotation Score and Motif Writing and was also awarded Professional Notator status by the Dance Notation Bureau. Her Labanotation scores include José Limón’s La Malinche, Leni Wylliams’ Sweet in the Morning, and Pilobolus’ Alraune. Her educational DVD on La Malinche won a Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival and The University of Texas Press and Dance Chronicle have published her writing. She has restaged masterworks including Lester Horton’s The Beloved for renowned companies such as Philadanco and the National Dance Theater of Jamaica and her choreographic credits include numerous musicals for producing organizations such as Dallas Summer Musicals and television commercials for companies such as Samsung as well as concert works for professional companies and educational institutions. Patty, along with seven other alums of the BFA and MFA dance programs at SMU, founded Dancers Unlimited, a modern dance company that remained an active force in the cultural life of Dallas for 25 years by performing the works of renowned choreographers such as Judith Jamison, Moses Pendleton and Bill Evans.

PhD, CMA, Language of Dance Specialist and Franklin Method Practitioner. She teaches dance wellness and Bartenieff Fundamentals, pedagogy, LMA, and senior thesis writing at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Her teaching and research aim to inform disciplinary practices, provoke personal development, and deepen dancers’ understanding of their potential as artists, educators, researchers, writers, and healers. She has staged Nijinsky’s L’après-midi d’un Faune and Parsons Etude. Geographies of Dance: Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations (Lexington Books, 2013), Journal of Dance Education, Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity, Dance: Current Selected Research, and Research in Dance Education feature her writing. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Movement Arts Literacy(digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jmal/), a new online, academic journal about using dance-based dance literacy.

Research Panel Member, 2024-2027

Choreographer, performer and teacher for dance and movement notation. She graduated in movement analysis and Kinetography Laban in 1998 from Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Fellow of ICKL since 2005, Chair of ICKL Research Panel from 2011 to 2015. Teacher for notation at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and Universität Bern (Switzerland). Member of National Jury for Swiss Dance Prizes, Expert for Professional Dance Education in Switzerland and for Dance at the Johnson Foundation. Founder and director of Hermesdance, based in Bern, Switzerland (www.hermesdance.com).

Dancer, writer, researcher. Beatriz holds a BA in Anthropology and Literature, and completed the program Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage in 2018. She is experienced in western contemporary dance. Her dance practice in contact improvisation led her to an inquiry based on ethnochoreology and phenomenology, wondering how the backgrounds of practitioners remain immanent in an improvisatory practice. She has participated in multicultural performances and site-specific interventions including museum galleries in Norway, Hungary, and London; and also staged choreographic works in Guatemala City. She has written the poetry book Hacia la tempestad [Magna Terra Editores, 2016]. Currently, Beatriz is an independent researcher in collaboration with Centro de Danza e Investigación del Movimiento at Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala City.

Miriam Huberman combines choreological studies, injury prevention, dance history and dance education in her work. BA in History (UNAM); MA in Dance Studies (Laban Centre for Movement and Dance). Huberman has taught choreological studies and injury prevention in the BA in Dance programs of the Academia de la Danza Mexicana, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Universidad de Sonora, as well as in the MA in Dance Research of CENIDI Danza. Her articles on dance have been published in Este País, Interdanza, Revista de la Universidad de México. She is a founding member of the Centro Mexicano de Estudios Coreológicos, A.C. Currently, she is giving choreological counseling to dance companies for the Dirección de Danza, UNAM.

Core member, ICKL President

Ann Hutchinson Guest (1918-2022) first studied Laban notation at the Jooss-Leeder Dance School at Dartington Hall, Devon, England. After graduation she stayed on to notate Kurt Jooss’ Green Table and three other Jooss ballets. Returning to New York City, she became one of the founders of the Dance Notation Bureau until 1961 while performing and teaching. In 1959, together with Albrecht Knust, Sigurd Leeder and Lisa Ullmann, she was a co-founder of the International Council of Kinetography Laban, and one of the core members to whom Laban had entrusted the responsibility of guarding the system and overseeing its further development.

She has served as President of ICKL since 1987. Ann Hutchinson Guest is author of several notation textbooks and many ICKL technical papers. Labanotation, her major work, has largely contributed to the radiance of the Laban system in the English speaking world.