Private Dance Lessons

Want to learn to connect through dance or partner acrobatics? Study principle based skills for partner dance connection, the Contact Improvisation form, and partner acrobatics and expand your potential for connection, improvisation, and presence.

CJ O’Reilly has been an athelet and mover since they started doing acrobatics with their father as a baby. They started martial arts at a young age with Tae Kwon Do, and then moved to Karate and began teaching younger students as a young teenager, alongside various ‘extreme sports’ (rollblading, skateboard, BMX, Mountain Biking and skiiing). They taugh swim lessons (which they still teach) as a teenager. In college they found East Coast Swing and Lindy Hop, and Contact Improvsation as a dance major, before moving to China to teach English and study Chinese, Mongolian and Taija. In Beijing they continued their study of CI and since moving to Asheville in 2014 they have continued to teach, mostly contact improvisation, partner dance, partner acrobatics, slack line, and swimming, while continuing their study and practice of martial arts, circus, and other movement forms.