Membership Directory

Chommanad Kijkhun gained her PhD in Thai Dance from Chulalongkorn University and received royal commissions as Full Professor in 2013. She was selected by SPAFA to study Labanotation course with Rhonda Ryman, Dr. Chua SooPong, Judy Van Zile, Ilene Fox, Luo Bing Yu and Zhang Ling Ling. She applied Labanotation for The Essence of Thai Male Classical Dance and The Creation of Thai Dance Notation researches.
She was Dean and Head of master’s degree program in Performing Arts at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (SSRU). In 2009, she was the onsite organizer of the 26th ICKL Conference, held at SSRU. Since 2015 she retired from SSRU.
Currently, she is an assessor of academic research for lecturers from all over Thailand to receive academic status in performing arts and also takes a position of Civil Servant subcommittee in both public and private universities.

Jian Kim is a professor in the Department of Dance at Sangmyung University in Korea, where she teaches Korean Dance and other dance programs. Courses which she deals with include Fundamental Principle of Korean Dance, Korean Dance and Performance Curation Practice, Arts Research for Korean Dance. Jian Kim has operated two projects. First, since 2017, she has operated school art instructor project which supported by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Another project is about life cycle dance education supported by the Ministry of Education. Specifically, research is being conducted on the development and implementation of dance programs for the life cycle for infants, children and adolescents, adults, the elderly, and the people with disabilities. She is the lead author of Introduction to Arts and Culture Arts Education and she also translated Dancer Wellness which is originally published by Virginia Wilmerding in the US . Jian Kim is the vice-president of the Korean Society of Dance Studies, the editor-in-chief of the Society of Korean Dance Studies, and the associate editor of the Research in Dance Physical Activity. She is the artistic director of THE Dance: MAC and she is successor of National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 92 Taepyeongmu and Seoul Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 45 Hallyangmu.

Moonjoo Kim is dancer, performer, and choreographer who was born in South Korea. In Korea, she has won prizes in multiple competitions for the solo piece. She holds a Bachelor in dance from Korea National University of Arts (BA 2020). As a bachelor, she studied traditional Korean dance. During the exchange program at the Folkwang, she worked in the project with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in 2018, as a dancer. In order to deal more with the body and movement, she has been studying dance composition (MA), majoring in movement notation/movement analysis at the Folkwang University in Essen since 2020. Since coming to Germany, she has worked with Consol Theater and Ehrenfeld Studios as a dancer.

KLEINROK Aleksandra (1985). PhD in Historical Musicology in 2017 with a dissertation Warsaw’s 19^th-century Salon as a Site of Cultivating National Musical Traditions (Institute of Musicology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin). She holds a degree in Musicology from the University of Warsaw (2009) and a postgraduate degree in Dance Theory at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (2011). In 2013, she completed training at the Institute of Choreology in Poznań, led by Prof. Roderyk Lange and Urszula Loba-Wilgocka (MA). She has published articles on dance theory, Silesian culture, the concept of cultural borderland, and aspects of time and rhythm in Polish folk art. She is a member of the Polish Choreology Forum, the Polish Seminar in Ethnomusicology and the Warsaw Laboratory of Kinetography.

Henrik Kovács is an associate professor at the Hungarian Dance Academy, teaching kinetography, and folkdance methodology. He earned his first degree at the Szent István University as a rural development agriculture engineer, exploring how a folkdance ensemble could develop a local community. He subsequently obtained his BA and MA at the Hungarian Dance Academy in relation to the teaching of folk dance. As a former deputy head of a dance elementary school he graduated as a public education leader at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He completed his PhD in ethnography at the University of Debrecen. Kovács has been an amateur folkdancer from the age of 6, and a teacher from the age of 14 as assistant one of the best amateur folkdance ensemble in Hungary. He participated in the Leonardo, Euroesthetica program and is the author of several articles on dance methodology and kinetography.

Zuzanna Kupidura – music teacher specialized in Émile Jaques-Dalcroze method, choreographer, and dance researcher. Graduated master’s studies in Rhythmics (2017) and Choreography and Theory of Dance (2019) at The Chopin University of Music. In 2016 graduated from the Choreology and Kinetography training at the Institute of Choreology (Poznań) led by U. Loba-Wilgocka. As a dancer and choreographer worked with The Jan Kochanowski Popular Theatre in Radom. Member of a Polish Forum of Choreology and Warsaw Laboratory of Kinetography. Lecturer at The Chopin University of Music (2017-2019) and The Academy of Music in Kraków (2018-2019). Rhythmics Department’s teacher at Karol Szymanowski Complex of State Music Schools No 4 in Warsaw.