Membership Directory

ICKL Research Panel Member, 2016-2019

Victoria Watts, Chair of Dance at Cornish College of the Arts and newly elected as a Fellow, is a dance educator, scholar and activist whose professional engagements have spanned Europe, North America, and Australia. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, and a BA (Hons) Dance in Society from the University of Surrey. She is certified to Advanced level in Labanotation and Benesh Movement Notation. Her doctoral thesis combined her interests in visual culture and theories of embodiment with a comparative analysis of four scores of Balanchine’s Serenade in an investigation of the ways movement notation systems encode changes in embodied subjectivity. She has published on notation in Dance Research and Dance Chronicle.

Lynne Weber, Executive Director and Board Chair of the Dance Notation Bureau since 2005, is a Certified Notator, Reconstructor, Teacher, (Elementary-Professional levels), and Certified Movement Analyst (CMA). She notated works of Tudor, Massine, and Joffrey, and full-length Sleeping Beauty. She danced with the Milwaukee Ballet Company and modern, opera, and operetta companies and choreographed for the Public Theater. Lynne earned an MBA from the Wharton School, an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and was Adjunct Faculty in Information Technology, Touro College.

ICKL Vice Chair, 2023-2026

She serves as Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Director of Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space, and Executive Director of The Arts Initiative overseeing the institution-to-institution partnership between Royal Shakespeare Company and Ohio State, and the Town and Gown Advisory Committee for the Arts. She is Professor of Dance, received her BFA from The Juilliard School, her MFA and PhD from Texas Woman’s University, is a Certified Professional Notator and Teacher, and ICKL Fellow. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City, New York; International Council of Kinetography Laban Labanotation; and Opera Columbus.