Ezra LeBank
One on One Team
This year's jam will have ample opportunities for one on one instruction.
1-1s are short sessions in which you can get individualized attention from our incredible teaching body. Different teachers will be in attendance each day to work with you on specific skills, give feedback, or dialogue. You are also welcome to bring a partner or two to your session, and have the teacher observe a dance. These sessions will be organized and facilitated by an amazing team of three seasoned teachers and wcciJAM organizers.
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Ezra LeBank is a Professor of Movement at California State University Long Beach. Meditation, Aikido, and contemporary floorwork find their way into his curiosity of CI. His approach is inspired by many wonderful teachers including Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Ray Chung, Mike Vargas, and Nita Little. He has been invited as a teacher at International Contact Festival Freiburg, MOVE Copenhagen, Warsaw Flow/Poland Contact Festival, West Coast Contact Improv Jam, Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Oberlin CI@50, and others. With Bad Goat Dance, he studies Dirt Work & Cloud Tectonics as methods of bringing ourselves closer to the earth, the sky, and each other.