Workshop: AGILE BEAST / Already Animals @ Long Beach, California

Already Animals

AGILE BEAST approaches movement training from the perspective of our species' evolution, developing integrated fitness protocols that make deep sense to the human animal. This workshop is made for dancers looking to develop dynamic strength and agility that supports a variety of movement endeavors, from Contact Improvisation to other dance practices, team sports, running, climbing, gym-rattery, parenting, gardening, and more.

We will dive into a conceptual framework that informs movement games, dance experiments, and partner exercises in consensual resistance. In particular, we’ll look at:

Essential Movement Training for Longevity (“The Three L’s”)

-Lying-to-Standing as an infinite practice

-Lifting objects and humans

-Locomotion via bipedal and quadrupedal pathways

The AGILE BEAST Categories (“The ABC’s”) of Conditioning Exercises

-Crawl, Crouch, Climb, Course, Carry, Coil

-Each Category represents a domain for fitness training and a realm to explore for greater freedom in dance and movement.

“Already Animals" is part of the LBCI (Long Beach Contact Improvisation) Festival and is open to anyone with a regular movement, dance, or athletic practice.

WHERE

California State University Long Beach

1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, California, USA

SCHEDULE

January 13-15, 2027

Details TBA

INFO

https://www.badgoatdance.com/lbcifest

REGISTRATION

→AGILE BEAST intensive

→Long Beach CI Festival

ABOUT the TEACHER

Sebastian Grubb is an award-winning dance artist and movement coach based in Copenhagen and California. He teaches integrated movement technique to athletes, dancers and people of all kinds via personal coaching, weekly classes and transformative workshops. From 2007-2019 Sebastian choreographed, performed and toured contemporary dance works throughout the U.S. and internationally. From 2008-2024 he ran an outdoor workout company in San Francisco, then made Denmark his permanent home in 2025. He has been a long-term student of Scott Wells (improvisation and acrobatics) and Frey Faust (functional anatomy and dance research), among other influential teachers. He is the founder of Agile Beast and co-founder of Spiral Camp, both of which focus on making skills and techniques for dynamic movement accessible to all participants