Remembering Dance, Immersion: New Jersey 2025

Alex is a movement artist, educator, and creative facilitator with a deep commitment to helping people reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and innate rhythm. His signature practice, Experiments in Rhythm, blends freestyle dance, martial arts, partnering, and nervous system attunement to create transformative movement experiences rooted in curiosity, play, and expression.

Alex began his dance and martial arts journey in 2001 and has been teaching since 2009, developing his approach through years of exploration across disciplines and cultures. His work spans youth education, retreats, facilitator mentorship, and site-specific movement experiences—from nature-based jams to immersive indoor labs. Through all his offerings, Alex’s mission is to create welcoming, nourishing containers where people of all backgrounds can explore freedom through movement, remember their creative capacity, and feel at home in their own bodies.

Christy brings a rare blend of rigorous expertise, creativity, and boundless heart to every endeavor she champions. With a master’s in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University and certifications as a Precision Nutrition Level 2 and Integrative Nutrition health coach, she has spent her life honing bodies and minds as a personal trainer, swim instructor, and ice-hockey coach. A seven-time Ironman finisher and master ceramic artist, Christy’s drive for peak performance is matched only by her passion for creative expression and well-being.

As Chair of the Board at Promly and a Director at The Haven Collection, she channels her keen ability to recognize and catalyze each person’s unique gifts into shaping responsible tech and expanding holistic-health resources for youth and adults. A single mother of four exceptional young adults, Christy devotes both her personal and professional life to guiding others toward meaning and purpose—whether that’s on the race course, at home, or out on the dance floor, where she’s always first to bust a move. She deeply believes in the power of dance and expressive movement to shift mental states—transforming despair into hope, one beat at a time.

Caroline has been treating patients since 2010 and specializes in injury rehabilitation, performance optimization and pain management. She has a trained eye to see the body as a whole and the complex way in which a symptom is not, and should not be, the only target of treatment. She is able to identify vulnerabilities and assist clients in preventing future injury using both Chinese medicine and movement. She has learned that the human experience of pain and posture are multifaceted and involve not only our bones and muscles, but also our nervous system, sense organs, respiratory system, emotions and thought patterns. For more information about Caroline’s Chinese medicine practice go to the acupuncture page.

Caroline is a lover of many forms of movement, especially dance, partner training, qi gong, martial arts and Crossfit. She studied a number of different Chinese martial arts forms from 2003-2018 and since 2021 she has trained with Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea of Fighting Monkey (fightingmonkey.net). She found this post-modern synthesis of traditional forms, improvisational dance, agility and coordination and communication training to be both revolutionary and life changing. The work she has done with Jozef and Linda is the primary inspiration for State of Play Training. Caroline especially enjoys working with children who dance without training and play without being asked. She believes that it is through moving, creating and playing that we best learn about ourselves.