Membership Directory

Shelly Saint-Smith MFA, BA (Hons), is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) in London. She has been actively involved with ICKL since 2005; she became a Fellow of ICKL in 2006 and served as Chair of the Research Panel from 2008 to 2011. Shelly has presented her own research at the 2007, 2011 and 2013 ICKL conferences, as well as in the UK and Europe. Shelly studied Labanotation and directing from score at the University of Birmingham, UK, and The Ohio State University. She is Programme Manager of the MA in Education (Dance Teaching) at the RAD, teaches notation and Laban studies to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and directs excerpts from dance works for undergraduate modules in performance. She also works with the Dance Notation Bureau as a mentor for Advanced Labanotation students completing their score reading projects in London. In 2010 she was awarded funding to begin the process of documenting and preserving the RAD’s Karsavina Syllabus and is currently notating the fundamentals of flying trapeze.

Machiko Sato is a dancer and post-doctoral researcher at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on theatrical dance and dance notation studies mainly in the 19-20^th century. Since 2018, she has been involved in conserving and restoring dance in the e-tangible heritage form as collaborative research with information science technology and robotics. She is the author of several articles, including “The Concept of ‘Plastique’ in Dance at the Beginning of the 20^th Century,” in The Journal of Japanese Society for Theatre Research (2021); “Digital Reconstruction of Ballet from Dance Scores written in Stepanov’s Music Note System,” in IPSJ SIG Technical Report (2021); “Dancing Robots: An Interview with Katsu Ikeuchi and Machiko Sato.” DNB Library News (2021).

Born in Cottbus/GDR in 1957.
Studied Kinetography Laban with Mária Szentpál from 1982 to 1989 and at Folkwang University 1991/92.
Study of philosophy, dance teaching, dance and theatrescience, musictherapy.
Taught Kinetography Laban at Theatreuniversity in Leipzig, University in Salzburg and Dance University Palucca School Dresden.
Worked as a notator at dance archive in Leipzig, State opera in Dresden and in Hannover.
Worked as movement teacher for educators and teachers, physio-/ergo-/ musictherapists, at the European Academy of Healing Arts (www.eaha.org).

Kyung-Eun Shim studied notation in France with Noëlle Simonet at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP), and graduated in 2008. She has notated works by Merce Cunningham, Thierry Malandain and a number of Korean traditional dances. After completing her master’s and doctoral degrees in art aesthetics at the Paris-Sorbonne University, she received her PhD at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in France. She returned to Korea in 2015 and has taught at several universities in Seoul. She analyzed Taepyeongmu while teaching Kinetography Laban at the Traditional Graduate School of the Korea National University of Arts. She is a trainee of Cheoyongmu dance, registered in UNESCO as an intangible cultural asset of Korea. Her main work is research professor at Sejong University’s Sejong Dance Contents Research Institute. Her research domain is interdisciplinary and she is collaborating with the fields of ethno-anthropology, cognitive psychology and cultural technology engineering. She is also an international director of the Korea Dance Society, a director of the Korean Dance Education Association, and a researcher at the Korean Traditional Culture Research Institute.

Research Panel Member, 2021-2024

Noëlle Simonet is a dancer, notator, Somatic Movement Educator in Body Mind Centering and the artistic director of the LABKINE company. (www.labkine.com), From 1999 to 2021, she teaches Kinetography at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse of Paris (CNSMDP). She collaborated on the creation of Wilfride Piollet books: Les Barres Flexibles and Synthèse des barres flexibles by notating all the exercises of her technique. With the help of 3 scholarships from the CND, she realizes: The choreographic score – Tool for transmission, tool for creation : #1 Floorplan, #2 Transfers and turns and #3 Body-Space. A new scholarship (2021) allows her to collaborate with Vincent Lenfant for the notation of Red Notes from Andy Degroat. She teaches for the « Advanced course in Labanotation » of the DNB. She is a member of the research panel ( ICKL).

Katarzyna Skiba – dance researcher and educator, a member of Warsaw Laboratory of Kinetography. She holds a PhD in cultural studies and MA in Indology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her doctoral thesis was focused on the issue of national identity in South Asian dance. She conducted several research projects, funded by the Jagiellonian University (Faculty of Philosophy), École française d’Extrême-Orient, National Science Centre (Poland) and Polish Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport. She is an author of 15 scientific papers devoted to dance history, anthropology and aesthetics. She was trained in Kathak, Flamenco, Oriental Dance and American Tribal Style. Currently she works at the ‘Mazowsze’ National Folk Songs and Dance Ensemble.

Dancer, researcher, performer, lawyer, interpreter. While working with the body she seeks inspiration in the movement awareness techniques, theatre pedagogy and within her kids. In those seemingly distant areas she juxtaposed and embraced perfectly. Skoczelas proves that one can be creative in every area of interest. Hence the means and skills acquired on the job may be perfectly blended into the forms of her artistic expression. Took part in projects in Poland and abroad. Membership: Polish Choreology Forum, Warsaw Laboratory of Kinetography, ICKL. Skoczelas examines the relationships between the ordinary means of everyday communication and the movement.