Membership Directory

ICKL Board Member, 2018-2021

MFA Supervisor and Executive Deputy Director at China Laban Research Center in the School of Dance at Beijing Normal University, received her BA and MA from Beijing Dance Academy. Her teaching and research areas include Chinese folk dance, Labanotation, and Laban movement analysis. Yi began her career as a professional Chinese folk dancer. In 1994 and 2000, Yi was the champion and runner-up for the 4th and 6th Taoli Cup Dance Competition, Folk Dance, Youth Group. After obtaining her MA in 2007, Yi became a lecturer at the School of Dance at Beijing Normal University. From 2007, Yi studied Labanotation with Bingyu Luo, one of the pioneer Labanotation scholars in China, and later on with the Dance Notation Bureau. Yi has had several articles on Labanotation published in Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, International Creative Dance Forum and Art Criticism and was one of the translators of the Chinese version of Labanotation (authored by Ann Hutchinson, published in China in 2012). For the past years, Yi has been actively involved in ICKL and was the onsite organizer of the 30th ICKL conference in Beijing in 2017.

Yiran Tang [汤怡然] is currently an undergraduate student at The Nangjing University of the Arts (NUA), majoring in “choreology’, the study of dance history and writing of dance criticism. She attributes her interest in Laban studies to the famous Chinese dancer, Dai Ailian. Some relatively short time ago, in her dance history class, her teacher spoke about how Dai Aillian had devoted herself to the research and promotion of Labanotation in China, igniting Tang’s curiosity about the subject. As a result, she began to study more about Laban and Labanotation. At the end of 2018, she completed two of the three LIMS Certification Program introductory courses: Introduction to Bartenieff Fundamentals and Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis. Starting this year, she began learning Elementary Labanotation.

ICKL Research Panel Member, 2016-2019

Born in Taiwan in 1970, began classic and Chinese traditional dance at an early age. She studied at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan then went in France to study Kinetography Laban at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP), with teacher Jacqueline Challet-Haas and tutor Marion Bastien. She graduated in 1997. She currently is a Labanotator with one of the top dance companies in Taiwan, the Neo-Classic Dance Company, led by Liu Feng-Shueh. Since 1997, she has notated for the company historic reconstructions of ancient dance from the Tang Dynasty (The Joy of Drinking a Toast, PaTou) and modern artistic creations (The Rite of Spring, Ambushed From All Sides, Spark, Figurines, Vast desert, solitary smoke rises straight). Tsui has been an ICKL member since 1995 and a Fellow since 2011.