Human Animal

On Soft Acrobatics: Fundamentals & Beyond

  A complete foundation in soft acrobatics, designed for both beginners and experienced movers. This course teaches the essential mechanics, progressions, and vocabulary behind acrobatic skills inspired by capoeira, breakdance, and contemporary dance all approached through a playful, adaptive, and explorative method.  You’ll develop strength, coordination, balance, spatial awareness, and the ability to personalize your acrobatic movement rather than memorizing fixed shapes. The course emphasizes understanding, creativity, and long-term growth, giving you the tools to integrate acrobatics into your broader movement practice or teaching.

On Quadrupedal: Fundamentals & Beyond

  A deep dive into full-body coordination, crawling mechanics, and grounded locomotion. You might know these patterns from “animal locomotion,” but here we expand them into something far more sophisticated. You’ll build structural fundamentals, explore variability, and learn to use these movements not just as conditioning drills, but as tools for creativity, improvisation, and free movement.  Quadrupedal work becomes a foundation you can integrate into every other domain, from soft acrobatics to floorwork and standing coordination. The practice draws from our research and influences like capoeira, breakdance, and contemporary dance, making the course accessible for all levels while still highly challenging and rich in material.

Improvisation I 

Improvisation I introduces you to our task-based method for developing creativity, coordination, and adaptability. Across 10 classes, you’ll explore constraints as tools for learning discovering how limits can spark new solutions, deeper body awareness, and more intelligent movement choices. We work standing, on four limbs, and on the floor, continually transitioning between them. You’ll improve coordination, kinesthetic intelligence, and the ability to express movement creatively. Influences include contemporary dance, capoeira, breakdance, athletics, and Fighting Monkey practice. This course is open to all levels and progressively structured so anyone can follow the tasks from where they are. Improvisation is a core pillar of our practice, and this series gives you a framework you can use throughout your entire movement journey.