Membership Directory

Membership Directory  2019-2023

(in progress – by July 13, 2023. Includes information sent by members.)

LEDWIG, Marius

Position: Member
Email: marius@adam-ledwig.de
Categories: GERMANY

Marius Ledwig, born on April 4, 1995 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After graduating in BA Dance at the Folkwang University of Arts in 2019, he is focusing on Movement Analysis and Movement Notation in the Master studies of Kinetographie. He has performed in productions at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Aalto Theatre in Essen and Wuppertaler Tanztheater Pina Bausch. Inspired by diverse aesthetics and the method of recontextualization he approaches holistic art forms.

LEDWIG, Marius

Member

GERMANY

LEE, Jooyoung (JOO)

Position: Member
Email: ljydancer@gmail.com
Categories: FRANCE, SOUTH KOREA

Jooyoung Lee, is a Korean choreographer, dancer, dance teacher and Laban notator. Her artist name is Joo.
She worked as a dance teacher and choreographer and representative of L.va CDC (Contemporary Dance Company) in Korea. She arrived in France 5 years ago, and graduated at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in Laban notation in 2021.
As a choreographer, her representative works include Peeling, Wavelength, Anger, Monologue and Shadow Mask.
She now wishes develop to her artistic work with further use of the notation.
She analyzes and writes the movements of eastern and western dances by seeking specificities and focuses in sharing and transmitting movements of different dances with the Laban system.

LEE, Jooyoung (JOO)

Member

SOUTH KOREA/FRANCE

LEE, Jung min

Position: Member
Email: aquamin0207@gmail.com
Categories: SOUTH KOREA

Jung Min Lee is a university lecturer and dance researcher in Seoul, South Korea. She received a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in dance from Ewha Womans University and Ph.D. in Art from Sungkyunkwan University. She currently teaches “Theory of dance education” at Chungnam National University and continues her research with an interest in movement analysis, notation, and education of Korean dance. Her achievements include the publication of a Korean co-translation (2021) of Your Move written by Ann Hutchinson Guest & Tina Curran. She received a certificate of completion of Taepyeongmu (Great Peace Dance), a National Intangible Heritage, in 2010 and has inherited the dance so far. She is also a member of the Conservation Society of Taepyeongmu and the Institute of Kang Sun Young Dance Inheritance.

LEE, Jung min

Member

SOUTH KOREA

Billie Lepczyk

LEPCZYK, Billie

Position: Fellow
Email: lepczyk@vt.edu
Categories: (Fellows), USA

ICKL Board Member, 2016-2019

Professor of Dance in the School of Performing Arts and Catalyst Fellow of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech. She received an EdD from Columbia University where she was a Teachers College Fellow and Certifications as Professional Notator, Labanotation Teacher, and Laban Movement Analyst from the Dance Notation Bureau. She currently serves on the DNB Board of Directors. Dr. Lepczyk is an ICKL Fellow and recently completed two terms as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She is co-editor of five volumes of Dance: Current Selected Research and is a member of the Review Boards for Journal of Movement Arts Literacy and The Virginia Journal. Her scholarship is in movement analysis, dance style research, and digital choreography.

LEPCZYK, Billie

Fellow

USA

LISZTES, Mónika

Position: Member
Email: lisztesmoni@gmail.com
Categories: HUNGARY

Mónika Lisztes is a Hungarian performing arts manager and heritage professional. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in natural sciences, she completed a preprofessional program in contemporary dance and somatics in Budapest.
Her work to-date has focused on dance education and dissemination. Currently, she serves as the manager of the ZeroPlus Performing Arts Education program.
Her scholarly projects include the study of dance dictionaries to explore how ballet technique has been communicated to non-professionals. In her latest project, she is digitizing and creating an online edition of Albrecht Knust’s Dictionary of Kinetography Laban (Labanotation).

LISZTES, Mónika

Member

HUNGARY

LIU, Dan

Position: Member
Email: hanxue_1012@hotmail.com
Categories: CHINA

Beginning 2004, Liu has served as a teacher of modern dance technique, researcher and interdisciplinary artist at the department of dance in Jiang Nan University. She holds a BA from the department of dance at Wuhan Conservatory of Music and received an MFA in costumes, culture, and dance performance. Liu is certificated in Elementary Labanotation and Intermediate Labanotation by the DNB, and has starting CMA training by LIMS in 2018.

Since 2007, she has been using Labanotation and Laban Effort in both research and practice. She has hosted numerous Laban-related research programs, and published two monographs in China as well as more than ten academic articles related to Labanotation in the Beijing Dance Academy Journal and in other Chinese journals as well. In her teaching of modern dance, she uses Labanotation as a main method of analysis and movement creation as a means of better understanding the structure of the human body and her dancer’s movements to prompt training of modern dance technique, consequently narrate for more students to Laban movement theory and the application of Labanotation system.

LIU, Dan

Member

CHINA

LOUKISA, Panagiota

Position: Member
Email: loukisa.g@hotmail.gr
Categories: GREECE

Panagiota (Giota) Loukisa is a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) for the last 20 years, a Tutor and Practical Teaching Supervisor for the RAD’s CBTS and DDTS programmes, an associate teacher of classical ballet and modern dance of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, and a choreographer.

Giota holds a MA in Education (Dance Teaching) from the RAD and received the RAD Teaching Diploma and RAD Teaching Certificate.   She is certified in Elementary Motif Notation and Elementary Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau.  Her research interests focus on the links between dance notation and cognition. Giota is also a painter and holds a BA in International Economics and Finance by the Athens University of Economy and Business.

LOUKISA, Panagiota

Member

GREECE

LOYER, Anaïs

Position: Member
Categories: FRANCE

Anaïs Loyer studied notation at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) and graduated in May 2017. She received a Master’s degree from Nice University, her thesis explored how a notation score can allow space for the dancer’s interpretation and the choreographer’s creativity. She teaches notation and Motif notation at Nice University.

LOYER, Anaïs

Member

FRANCE

LU, Mei-Chen

Position: Fellow
Email: library@dancenotation.org
Categories: (Fellows), TAIWAN, USA

ICKL Board Member, 2024-2027

Certified Labanotation teacher and stager; Currently Director of Library Services at the Dance Notation Bureau (DNB). Mei holds an MFA degree in Dance Performance and Labanotation from The Ohio State University, a BA from Hunter College, City University of New York, and an AA from Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan. Mei has taught Labanotation and Motif Notation both in the U.S. Hungary, Mexico, and China. She serves as one of the foreign notation experts at Beijing Normal University Laban Research Center.
Her publications can be seen in the DNB Library News, Dance Chronicles: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, Performing Arts Resources, and Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, among others. She has also implemented and launched DNB library projects, including Online Digital Archive, DNB Notated Theatrical Dances Online Catalog, and Library Guidelines for Codifying DNB Score and Cataloguing Terminology.

LU, Mei-Chen

Fellow

TAIWAN/USA