Jules Beckman, is an transdisciplinary performing artist and teacher from the USA living in France since 2002. He has been making work collaboratively, teaching, and touring steadily in dance, theater, performance and circus since 1987. He is artistic director of transminuko (https://www.transminuko.com) Some collaborations include Needcompany, Collectif AOC, Libertivore, I.D.A./Mark Tompkins, Cahin-caha, Lhasa De Sela, Contraband/Sara Shelton, Anna Halprin, Jess Curtis, Stanya Kahn, Stephanie Maher and Keith Hennessy. Jules’ work has brought him to thirty countries. He has taught at Centre National
des Art du Cirque, Impulstanz, DOCH, University of Dance and Circus, Canaldanse, MADE in France, Connecticut College, Prescott College New College of California,and several Contact Improv Festivals including Freiburg, Grenoble, Barcelona, Moab, Budapest and Ibiza. “I began learning CI in San Francisco in 1988, as a member of Sara Shelton- Mann’s performance group Contraband. We were passionate about mixing CI with other forms, experimenting wildly, using CI to respond to spiritual and political concerns. CI remains a context for liberation and community building, a laboratory of hybrid play, a physical prayer, a contemporary expression of the ecstatic dance lineage, a radical practice of decentralized power, an apt metaphor for myriad forms of relationship, a hothouse of connection and empowerment.”