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ICKL Board Member, 2022-2025 

She is a choreographer and movement researcher based in Essen, Germany. She studied dance at the Folkwang Hochschule (2005-2009). In March 2013 she obtained her MA in Dance Composition specializing in Movement Notation/Movement Analysis after two and a half years of study with Dr. Henner Drewes (Institute of Contemporary Dance, Folkwang University of the Arts). Her choreographic handwriting ranges between abstract and theatrical narrativity of movement. One of her strongest interests is the synergy among fields of creativity and knowledge, which she pursues in her own projects, e.g. the dance theatre piece Body of Word (2011) and the multimedia dance performance/artistic research project as far as abstract objects (2014).

See https://vimeo.com/foteinipapadopoulou/

Intermedia Master’s student at Concordia University in Montreal, Laure Plan is a digital artist who mainly creates interactive installations.
After 12 years of amateur contemporary dance, her relationship with the body and movement has influenced her artistic work towards a walking practice in the urban space, from wandering to random displacements, and has divided her research into 2 axes.
The first is based on the body trace, the movement retranscription, its writing, its documentation (new types of maps, choreographic scores, etc).
The second focuses on traces made without knowledge. Our movements are constantly tracked and located via GPS then analyzed by algorithms in order to anticipate our behaviour. What happens when technology fails or has no signal? What does it mean to be “here”?

Richard Allan Ploch, MA, RDE, Artistic Director of Acanthus, a chamber-sized Ballet Company and Adjunct Faculty of Dance at Hillsborough Community College and University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida, has been teaching ballet for over 40 years. He received his MA in Dance specializing in Labanotation from Ohio State University. He is a Certified Teacher of Labanotation and Labanotation Stager. He includes as his mentors and principle teachers: George Zoritch, Nenette Charisse, Peff Modelski, John Calandar, Rosalind Pierson and Ruth C. Petrinovic. An active choreographer, he currently devotes most of his choreographic energies to Acanthus. Ploch is active in several international dance organizations.