Ep 12: danceCONNECT with Antuan Byers danceCONNECT: a series of stages + stories

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Antuan Byers (Dallas, TX) is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance.

He holds a certificate from the Parsons School of Design and is an alumnus of Booker T.

Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He was a scholarship

student at Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Dallas Ballet Center, and has attended

summer programs including Abraham.In.Motion, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet,

Jacob’s Pillow, Northwest Dance Project, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Ronald K.

Brown/EVIDENCE Dance Company, all with partial or full scholarship. Antuan has been

featured in OUT Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit Magazine, and has global

campaigns with ASICS and Capezio. He has also danced for recording artists Erykah

Badu, Jennifer Holliday, The Skins, and D.R.A.M. Antuan has toured internationally with

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s second company, Ailey II, and has performed

with The Washington National Opera Ballet, Keigwin + Co., Mark Morris Dance

Company, as well as solo work by Kyle Abraham. Antuan has been an ambassador for

the Joyce Theater, Company Management Assistant for Alvin Ailey American Dance

Theater, and is currently on the Steering Committee of Dance Artists’ National

Collective (DANC) and a founding member of the Black Caucus at the American Guild

of Musical Artists (AGMA). Antuan is currently dancer The Metropolitan Opera Ballet,

performing a diverse repertory including Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris, Lorin

Latarro, Susan Stroman, Kim Brandstrup, Alexei Ratmansky, Sue Lefton, and Philippe

Giraudeau.