Francesco Caban
BFA Dance Education

Francesco Caban is an intelligent, experienced, architect of movement that seeks
to excel as a Parkour, Acrobatic, and Dance Educator, choreographer, and performer
while spreading the knowledge of the benefits of movement within the three elements
of body, mind, and spirit. Devoted for over 10 years to the Movement Arts he is ready
to start developing his career and pass on his knowledge.

Francesco Caban is a strong believer in the interconnection of all movement and
is on a life journey to explore how different physical attainments such as dance,
gymnastics, martial arts, parkour, and sports all share a common movement
source, and has since coined the phrase Movement Artist as his profession. He
also strongly believes in the application of the three major elements known as the
body, mind, and human spirit. The body, being ones physical ability and
application; The mind, being how one sorts through there physical their knowledge;
And the human spirit, being how ones will alone can help to aide the body and mind
to accomplish great feats. With the use of integrated curriculum and constructivist
approaches he focuses on each student individually and subjectively to help them
grow a self identity and understand their personal strengths as movers.

Francesco's background includes break dancing and new style hip hop, University
level contemporary modern and ballet technique, Gymnastics/Acrobatics/Martial art
tricks, Partner stunting/Adagio, Cheer leading, Capoeira, and character roles (Former
ASU's Sparky) . Francesco Caban has taught in private studios, gymnastics facilities,
out door classes and university settings with students of all ages. A coach at Scottsdale
Gymnastics and a fitness instructor at ASU he is currently teaching Parkour, and
Gymnastics. He still trains several days a week and is constantly learning new ways to
integrate interconnectivity so as to make every teaching experience efficient, exciting,
creative and fun for his students.

Francesco Caban is an ASU alumni with a BFA in Dance Education through the
Katherine K. Herberger College of Arts. He was a member of the new style hip hop
Nebellen Dance Company, now renamed Epic, for just under three years being the
youngest dancer to ever make it into the professional company at age 17 and while still in
high school. Francesco Caban has worked with such modern artists as David Dorfman,
Yvonne Rainer, and Travis Mesmen (a three year veteran of Momix dance company.) A
student of Sara Saza Dimmick a renown hip hop instructor within Arizona and Jay
Camara Spain of Axe Capoeira. Francesco Caban traveled to engage in Parkour
workshops outside the state of Arizona such as Colorado to work with Ryan Ford and
Matt Marshal of COPK, and to Ohio to Parkour Horizons workshop in which they flew in
Parkour Generations from France for a four day experience of movement and Q & A.
Recently Francesco Caban returned from France after a one month internship training
with the Parkour Generations team and is currently teaching Parkour at ASU, and also
teaches Parkour, Gymnastics, and Trompoline at Scottsdale Gymnastics.