Susanne Ravn
(CHAIR)
Susanne Ravn is working as associate professor at the Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark. She teaches Dance, Movement Communication and Performance Activities and has published more books concerning her work and research on learning practices in dance. Her current research and Ph.D. project is focusing on the lived experience of dancers and especially how embodiment and techniques of movement in dance are interrelated and co-produced.

Address:
Susanne Ravn
Institut for Idræt og Biomekanik
Syddansk Universitet
Campusvej 55
DK-5230 Odense
Fax: 45 6550 3480
e-mail: SRavn@health.sdu.dk
www.sdu.dk/health/iob/ansatte/susanneravn.html

Pia Stilling

(TREASURER-COORDINATOR, Danish treasurer)

Address:
Pia Stilling
e-mail: piastilling@hotmail.com

Leena Rouhiainen

(VICE-CHAIR, Finnish treasurer)
Leena Rouhiainen (MA in Dance Performance, MA in Somatic Studies and Labananalysis, Doctor of Arts in Dance) is dancer-choreographer and dance scholar. She has worked as a freelance dance artist since 1990 and is one of the founding members of the Suomussalmi-improvisation group that has received several national awards in Finland. Rouhiainen teaches various subjects as well as tutors doctoral students at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki and other locations. Her current research interest is in phenomenology, somatics and Rudolf Laban’s dance theory. She also runs a research project called Challenging the Notion of Knowledge, which looks at bodily and motional knowledge from various perspectives related to dance at the Theatre Academy.  

Address:
Leena Rouhiainen
Theatre Academy
Department of Research Development
Haapaniemenkatu 6, PO Box 163
FIN-00531 Helsinki
e-mail: leena.rouhiainen@teak.fi

Elina Seye

(WEBMASTER)
Elina Seye works as Assistant at the Department of Music Anthropology, University of Tampere. She has a MA degree in Musicology from the University of Helsinki, where she specialized in Ethnomusicology and African music. Besides teaching university courses on e.g. world music and research methods in ethnomusicology, she has also given classes of West African dances. Her ongoing PhD project is a performance ethnography about the Sabar, a traditional Senegalese dance and music form, focusing on the interaction of dance and music.

Address:
Elina Seye
Department of Music Anthropology
FIN-33014 University of Tampere  
e-mail: elina.seye@uta.fi

Sesselja G. Magnusdottir

(NEWSLETTER EDITOR, Icelandic treasurer)
Sesselja G. Magnusdottir completed a BA degree in history from the University of Iceland and a BS degree in physical education and dance from the University of Copenhagen before graduating with a BA Honours) degree in dance from Deakin University, Australia. Since graduation in 1998 her main occupation has been teaching dance history at The Icelandic Balletschool. She has also taught children in primary schools creative dance, and contributes regularly reviews on the Icelandic dance scene in national newspapers and journals. Currently she is enrolled in the NO-MA-ds course.

Address:
Sesselja G. Magnusdottir
The Icelandic Balletschool
Engjateig 1 
IS-105 Reykjavik
e-mail: sesseljagm@gmail.com

Guðbjörg Arnardóttir
Listdansskóli Hafnarfjarðar

Address:
Guðbjörg Arnardóttir
e-mail: gudbjorg@listdansskoli.is

Anne Margrete Fiskvik
Anne Margrete Fiskvik is educated dancer, teacher and choreographer from  Philadelphia University of the Arts and New York University. She has also studied music, Norwegian folkdance and theatre/drama at NTNU in Trondheim.  Anne has worked as dancer and choreographer in Trondheim running her own dance company, "KOMKO" from 1990. She has just finished a doctoral thesis on the relationship between dance and music, and is presently employed at NTNUs program of Dance Studies, teaching dance history and dance analysis

Address:
Anne Fiskvik
NTNU Institutt for musikk
N-7491 Trondheim
e-mail: anne.fiskvik@hf.ntnu.no

Hilde Rustad
(Norwegian treasurer)
Hilde Rustad is educated at the University of Oslo, from where she has a degree covering the subjects of English, theatre science and history. She trained to be a dancer and choreographer at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, School for New Dance Development, and has been working as a freelance dance artist and dance teacher since she graduated in 1992. In 2006 she finished a Nordic Master`s degree in Dance Science from NTNU/KUA/SU. Rustad is currently employed at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences where she is working on a PhD-project focusing on the dancing subjects experience in dance connected to meaning and identity.

Address:
Hilde Rustad
Norges Idrettshøgskole
POBox 4014 – Ullevål Stadion
NO-0806 Oslo
e-mail: hilde.rustad@nih.no

Camilla Damkjaer
(SECRETARY)
Camilla Damkjaer finished her Ph.D. in 2005 on the aesthetic of movement in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the choreographies of Merce Cunningham. She is currently working as a research associate at the department of Musicology and Performance Studies at Stockholm University. She is especially teaching in courses concerning dance theory and philosophy and contemporary circus. She is continuing her interest in non-narrative performance genres through a project on Danish performance gymnastics, and she is also conducting research on contemporary circus.
 
Address:
Camilla Damkjaer 
Institutionen för Musik- och teatervetenskap
Stockholms Universitet
SE-106 91 Stockholm
e-mail: camilla.damkjaer@teater.su.se

Åsa Unander-Scharin
(Swedish treasurer)

Address:
Åsa Unander-Scharin
e-mail: asa.unander-scharin@telia.com