Instructor Bios

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 has performed, choreographed, directed, and served in administrative roles w/ this unique artists collective ever since. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Heidi Krause began her training at age four in the Madison area, eventually ending up with Kanopy Dance Company.  She performed as an apprentice for 4 years before becoming a company member at the age of 17. She continued to perform with Kanopy as a soloist while attaining her license in Therapeutic Massage before pursuing further education in various forms of dance and movement.

Denise Schubert began practicing yoga in 2007 as a way to keep fit and as a balance from busy working days. She soon realized how asanas and proper breathing positively influence body and mind. Wanting to go deeper into that experience and learn more about the philosophy of yoga, she went to Kerala, South India and completed the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta teacher training in 2010.

Originally from the Alps in Austria, she has taught Hatha and Vinyasa yoga in Southern Germany for the last years. Her classes place emphasis on body- and mind-awareness, proper breathing and alignment. She hopes to impart to my students that everybody and every body is different. Yoga brings all of us together by teaching us to drop all judgments and simply do what we can for today. Off the mat you can find her hanging out with her two kids.

Denise is a certified 200 hours “Yoga Alliance” yoga teacher and has additional qualifications to teach pre- and postnatal yoga and spine gymnastics.