Membership Directory

MA Yu [马昱], PhD, Associate professor，Graduated from the Dance Deparement, Art and Communication College, Beijing Normal University. Dr. Ma was invited to New York by the Martha Hill Dance Fund. She is currently on the faculty of the Dance Department, Xi`an Conservatory of Music, Shaanxi province, China.

Marcus Vinicius Machado de Almeida is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in the Department of Body Art at the Physical Education School where he teaches “Philosophy and Dance”, “Music and Movement” and “Notation for Dance”. He holds a Master in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a PhD in Physical Education from the State University of Campinas. He received a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology from the Fluminense Federal University and was certified in Laban Movement Studies (CMA) by the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS). He has completed Labanotation courses at the Dance Notation Bureau. He also serves as Coordinator of the Bachelor in Music Therapy (UFRJ).

Paloma Macías Guzman, PhD, is a spanish dancer, teacher and researcher. She studied Spanish dance with Ana María Sánchez, Manolo Vargas and Mercedes Amaya. She is a CMA and a certified specialist in Language of Dance. She teaches theoretical and practical subjects at the National Institute of Fine Arts. She has created reading excercises and a record of Oscar Tarriba ́s Spanish dances using motif writing. She is a founding member of the Centro Mexicano de Estudios Coreológicos A.C.

Sheila Marion is a fellow of ICKL and taught Labanotation at Arizona State University and The Ohio State University.  She was Director of the Dance Notation Bureau Extension at OSU from 1995 to 2007.  She is currently retired and living in Montana.

After completing a Bachelor of Music degree at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), Keith McEwing studied various forms of dance, including Baroque dance with Wendy Hilton and Jennifer Shennan. Becoming proficient in the Baroque dance notation system Beauchamp–Feuillet, he then studied with Roderyk Lange at the Centre for Dance Studies (Jersey Is.) in 2008 and at Fundacja Instytut Choreologii (Poznan) in 2009. Keith is a music curator at the National Library of New Zealand, and teaches Taiji Quan as well as Renaissance, Baroque, Ballroom and Latin dance. In 2008-09 he completed a Master of Arts thesis on the Baroque-dance form, the Chaconne.

Beth Megill is a professor at Moorpark College with a specialty in modern, jazz, choreography, improvisation and dance notation. She founded Megill & Company in 2001 with her sister Heather and has produced four original musicals and ten evening length dance programs. The mission of MeCo is to create dance works that are vibrant, quirky, meaningful, intellectual and entertaining. Beth is also active in CDEA and NDEO, frequently presenting on dance literacy and jazz dance pedagogy. She is founder of LAdancereview.org and enjoys tweeting about life, dance and art at @bethmegill.

Gábor Misi is a computer programmer MSc. He was a performer in an amateur traditional dance group in Hungary for 15 years and led field works filming dance in 20 Transylvanian villages. He taught Kinetography Laban for 5 years at the Hungarian Dance Academy. He is a contributor of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow member of the International Council of Kinetography Laban (ICKL). He is a member of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology and a founding member of the Hungarian Society of Ethnochoreology. His research areas include analytical methods for Central European traditional dances, theory of Kinetography Laban and computer-aided dance analysis