Membership Directory

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.

Faith Kimberling  B.A. English lit -Bucknell, University of Reading, England semester abroad, UMBC dance major post-grad, grad credits Dance Ed -SUNY Empire State/92ndY Dance Education Lab (DEL), Corvino ballet workshops in pedagogy and dance composition. Faith currently dances as a founding member with Las Danzas NYC and for Loretta Thomas/Moving Visions, & with Putnam County Dance Project. She has also recently performed as a featured guest artist and soloist performing Isadora Duncan repertory and new stagings with Dances We Dance and with Catherine Gallant. In 2023, Faith  danced in an evening length work created by Mark Bankin and  is currently collaborating with him on developing a German expressionist modern dance exercise curriculum from dance notation. She is also working with Raymundo Ruiz in reading the notations of Nadia Chilkovsky’s Isadora Duncan dance scores and co-presented a workshop with him at the ICKL 2025 conference. Faith danced with Lori Belilove & the Isadora Duncan Dance Company 2006-2021, White Wave:Young Soon Kim Dance Company 1997-2014, CEuleDance, Linda Diamond/Anna Sokolow, and others including many regional musical theater productions, dancing solo and ensemble roles in NYC, around the country and internationally in China, Korea, Inner Mongolia, Scotland, Greece, and Germany. Faith has taught company class, presented lecture demonstration performances about Isadora in public schools, choreographed, coached and taught Duncan to the Beliloveables and others and recently had the opportunity to perform as well as teach Duncan Master Classes, Contemporary, and  ballet at the Dance World Stuttgart Conventions 2024 and 2025. She teaches creative dance to underserved NYC public school kids as a Dance Teaching Artist with Mark DeGarmo Dance and teaches creative dance, Modern,  hip-hop, pre-ballet and ballet to ages 3-adult at the YMCA and at Bridge for Dance. Faith lives in Manhattan with her husband, two daughters, a cat and a schnoodle, and is a student of Laban Kinetography with Noëlle Simonet/Labkine online.

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.