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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.