About Our Instructors
Marcia Miquelon directs the Mazomanie Movement Arts Center. Her background includes ballet, modern, African and Latin dance, along with yoga and contact improvisation. 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. Since 1981 he has toured and performed as the juggling and comedy duo, Cheney and Mills. In 2002, Jacob teamed up with Marcia Miquelon and Rob Summerbell to create The "Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!" Circus Arts Camp, 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.
Gini Knight has been training on aerial equipment, including aerial silks, for almost ten years. She has worked with Canopy Aerial Dance Studio, Nimble Arts Circus Productions, Pendulum Aerial Dance Theatre, and Cycropia Aerial Dance and performed with Canopy Aerial Dance Studio and Cycropia Aerial Dance. Her silks technique and teacher training methods were developed from working with Susan Murphy, Nicole Mermans, Elsie Smith, and Serenity Smith Forchion.
