Julius started dancing in the 90s, learning and inventing choreographies with friends, starring in musicals, and taking dance classes. After riding the EDM wave in the early 2000s and training in jazz dance and theater, they found Contact Improv in 2010 and immediately felt at home. Since then, CI has been a consistent part of their life. Julius also enjoys adjacent embodiment practices like yoga, qi gong, sensation literacy, etc.

Julius navigates Contact Improv with a spine condition and curiosity about the roads taken and not taken in each dance. They are an avid swimmer, gardener, and reader.

Julius' professional background is in trauma-informed teaching, curriculum development, and social justice education. They have a Master's in Cultural Studies and a Bachelor's in Gender Studies, as well as a WA State Certification in trauma-informed care for early childhood educators. Julius works as an instructional designer and teaches pedagogy courses for new and experienced educators.

Constanze has an extensive background in theater and dance, having trained at SVN and Tanzproject in Munich, Germany, and at The Bosl Stiftung at the Munich Opera until age 11. She then expanded her dance training to tap, jazz, and contemporary/modern, and spent several years on gymnastics and rhythmical gymnastics teams. Constanze studied theater at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and Santa Monica College, L.A. In 2009, she entered into Contact Improv and quickly expanded her CI practice to leading labs, facilitating jams, and teaching. She has been working with renowned CI teacher Cyrus Khambatta since 2011, incl. dancing, performing at, and co-organizing dance festivals: the Seattle International Dance Festival, for which  Constanze is the Program Director, Encontro Internacional de Contato Improvisacao Sao Paulo at Ilhabela, Brazil, and the Port Townsend contact jam, an annual four-day intensive now in its 12th year. 

Constanze's joy in Contact stems from a curiosity for playfulness, the permission to teeter totter, to fly high and dive low, and all aspects of mutual support. She enjoys the give and take, deep listening, and disruption that CI allows, as well as the global language of touch spoken by each contact dance. 

In her professional life, she is a film and video producer with a long list of credentials, including several 90s movies and a PBS children's show about a purple dinosaur.