Ohio State's Department of Dance mourns the loss of Emerita Professor Dr. Sheila Marion, who died recently. Professor Marion served as director of the Dance Notation Bureau Extension for Education and Research at Ohio State until spring 2011. Her research was in the application of computer technology for dance notation. Professor Marion was an elected fellow of the International Council of Kinetography Laban, and was selected by Ann Hutchinson Guest as a consultant for her Advanced Labanotation textbook. She served on the ICKL Research Panel. Professor Marion notated Daniel Nagrin's Jazz Three Ways and Jazz Dance Styles, Marion Scott's Sevenfold, and Tap Dance: A Dictionary of Tap Steps in Labanotation. Her directing credits include works by Ruth Currier, Doris Humphrey, Sophie Maslow, Buzz Miller, Marion Scott, Anna Sokolow, and Helen Tamiris.

Dr. Marion lived in Montana with her late husband and family. 

Photo: Mei-Chen Lu and Dr. Sheila Marion at the Dance Notation Bureau office, 151 W. 30th Street, New York City, 2006.