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Make sure to listen to PART 1 with Byron Tittle in Episode 01!

At a young age, Byron Tittle started tap dance with David Rider and the American Tap Dance Foundation in his hometown of New York. Wanting to study other disciplines, he also trained at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway. Byron recently toured the United States, Australia, and New Zealand with Hugh Jackman in The Man, The Music, The Show, and is humbled to have received a 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Dance Fellowship Award.

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Matilda Sakamoto (she/her) was born in Los Angeles. She attended the Juilliard School. She is freelance dancing and choreographing in New York, Los Angeles and abroad. Matilda recently starred in Apple's "Snap" campaign and performed as May Smith in Richard Nelson's newest play, The Michaels, at the Public Theater. She was recently chosen as an Art Omi dance resident and will be apart of the 2020 Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellows Program at Jacob's Pillow.

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Professional dancer/educator, Rob Bynes (he/him) was born and raised in New Jersey. Rob Bynes got his start praise dancing in church and learning to freestyle in the jersey & baltimore club culture. A year and a half after high school, his formal training began with a “R.D.T.” based out of Rutgers University before being discovered by Bloc NYC less than a year later in 2014. Over the years he has had the pleasure to make the Monsters of Hip Hop cast, teach over 50 international classes and work with artists such as Missy Elliot, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Rosalía and Tinashe to name a few.

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Inger Cooper is a freelance performer and choreographer in the NYC. After graduating from University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a BFA in Dance in 2015, Inger began her own project based group, ingercooper|dancers, and was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation to create work for Fall 2015. Inger and her company have since performed through various organizations and spaces in the NYC And Philadelphia area, including KYL/D's InHale, Koresh Dance Company, Philly Fringe Festival, REVERBdance, Triskelion Arts, WAXworks, Dixon Place, Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Arts on Site. In 2019, she worked with members of Peridance Dance Company in producing a music video for Cardboard Rocketship. Inger has also presented work at the CND in Paris and Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. Inger currently curates The Craft, a monthly performance series, in Brooklyn, NY [now virtual] and is a 305 Fitness Certified Instructor.

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"I love people.  With my art and in life I hope to journey deep into the conquering of fears in order to emerge as light.  Most importantly, I wish to be of service to the African-American community and to the African Diaspora as a whole.”Lauren is a storyteller, teacher and traveler who is the newly appointed Lecturer in Jazz Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Her personal research and application of the lineage of Black Dance in America has brought about this new beginning.  With a background in Poetry, a degree in Sociology and the accumulative study of Jazz, Hip Hop, Afro-Latinx styles, Commercial Dance and more she has become an influential voice in the New York dance community for the past ten years amongst diverse circles.  She is looking forward to continuing her lifelong study and love of dance in academia as we experience and understand it's transmutation in this new era.

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At a young age, Byron Tittle started tap dance with David Rider and the American Tap Dance Foundation in his hometown of New York. Wanting to study other disciplines, he also trained at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway. Byron recently toured the United States, Australia, and New Zealand with Hugh Jackman in The Man, The Music, The Show, and is humbled to have received a 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Dance Fellowship Award.