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[accordion title=”Marcia Miquelon” icon=”plus-square” icon_color=”#dd8238″]Marcia Miquelon
directs the Mazomanie Movement Arts Center. She is a dancer, aerialist, stilt walker and certified yoga teacher whose background includes ballet, modern dance, improvisation, African, and Latin dance as well as telemark skiing, long-distance cycling, and lots and lots of special event coordination.
Her love of teaching has taken her from the ski slopes of Utah to the classrooms of Southern Africa. She joined Cycropia Aerial Dance (www.cycropia.org) in 1994, and performed, choreographed, directed, and served in administrative roles w/ this unique artists collective for twenty years. She completed Scott Anderson’s Alignment Yoga teacher training course, a National Yoga Alliance accredited program, in 2004, and completed her adjunct certification in the Skinner Releasing Technique in 2005.[/accordion] [accordion title=”Jacob Mills” icon=”plus-square” icon_color=”#dd8238″]
Jacob Mills
is a professional actor, physical comedian and educator. He has been performing and teaching since 1974. Jacob studied theater at Cabrillo College in California, the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute in Chicago, and is a graduate of the Hayes-Marshall School of Theatre in Portland, Oregon. He is a past Artist-In-Residence for the City of Chicago, and his performances have been featured in a wide array of venues in the US and Europe, including schools, theaters, festivals, cruise ships and corporate events.
He can be seen and heard on local and regional TV and radio spots. Locally he has performed with Cycropia Aerial Dance, Cherry Pop Burlesque and Chicago’s Zyngara New World Circus. He has been a featured instructor at the Rhinelander School of the Arts, offering week-long residencies for the UW Madison. From 1981-2009, he toured and performed with the juggling and comedy duo, Cheney and Mills. In 2002, Jacob teamed up with Marcia Miquelon to found the Wild Rumpus Circus where he teaches mime, mask movement forms, acting, improvisation and a variety of circus skills.[/accordion] [accordion title=”Luv Joy Seamon” icon=”plus-square” icon_color=”#dd8238″]
Luv Joy Seamon
is a dancer, choreographer, dance-movement therapist, and has been a certified Pilates instructor since 1999. She was co-founder and co-artistic director of She Performance Collective, a Chicago based modern dance company, and is currently a member of LAVA performance collective, a group that has toured the country with its athletic contact improvisation based performances and workshops.
Most Recently she has performed around Wisconsin with Cycropia Aerial Dance and The Wild Rumpus Circus. Luv’s training in a variety of physical disciplines such as modern dance, contact improvisation, circus arts, theatre, aerial dance, and diving inform her teaching and performance style.[/accordion] [accordion title=”Bobby Kokott” icon=”plus-square” icon_color=”#dd8238″]
Bobby Kokott
is a Sound Healer and lifelong musician. A graduate of the highly regarded Program in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, he has seen first hand how music heals people and builds community. He has been a massage therapist for 25 years working with yogis, dancers, those with injuries, and people with AIDS and other major health challenges. He is also a teacher of Contact Improvisation, an awareness-based dance form.
His workshops are always warmly welcoming, heartfelt, and playful. He wishes to thank his teachers Silvia Nakkach, Jean-Yves Quetelard, Silke Schroeder, and Barbara Pratt for their love and support, and for the beautiful example of their lives of passion and service.[/accordion] [accordion title=”Michelle Lee Pisman” icon=”plus-square” icon_color=”#dd8238″]
Michelle Lee Pisman has been practicing yoga for over 30 years. In 2018, she obtained her 200 hour E-YRT yoga teacher training
certification from Tapas Yoga Shala in Rock Island, Illinois. Thereafter, she started her own yoga business, “SimplyYoga.MicheleLee,” opening locations in Lowden and Tipton, Iowa. She also taught aqua yoga at the James Kennedy Aquatic Center.