News and Press

Jaymes begins his third tenure as a high school summer intensive counselor with the additional title of summer teacher teaching hip hop.

Jaymes graduates from The University of Illinois with a BFA in Dance.

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Jaymes is awarded the Senior Magnolia Scholarship Award in recognition of a graduating undergraduate who has shown the most growth and development over their time in the UIUC Dance Department.

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Jaymes returns as a guest teacher for the second Dance At Illinois Black Advocacy Team's house and hip hop workshop teaching house dance.

Jaymes debuts his BFA thesis Shadows of Obligation and performs in An Endless Thread by Landon Allender in Dance At Illinois' Spring Senior Thesis Concert 2024: Continuum. Additionally, he acts as the student media coordinator in the show.

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Jaymes choreographed and performed Bayasibiza in collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Varsity Men's Glee Choir.

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Jaymes joins the cast of Oluwadamilare Ayorinde's [Re]-[Re].circ.2004 performing on April 6th at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Jaymes debuts his first mainstage work known as Take It To The Cypher in Dance At Illinois February Dance 2024 at Krannert Center for The Performing Arts.

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Jaymes' work Take It To The Cypher is mentioned and featured in the News-Gazette interview with fellow February Dance choreographer and Dance At Illinois Assistant Media Coordinator Elliot Reza Emadian. Read the interview here.

Jaymes is featured on WCIA 3 alongside Paige Cunningham-Caldarella in promotion of February Dance where he will be debuting Take It To The Cypher. Watch the interview here.

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Jaymes took a 5-minute excerpt of his upcoming work Take It To The Cypher to be performed at the Illini Women's basketball game halftime show becoming the first choreographer in Dance At Illinois to ever do so. Watch the performance here.

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Jaymes was interviewed about his upcoming part in the February Dance 2024 show by Jodi Heckel for the Illini News Bureau. Read the exclusive interview here.

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Jaymes was featured as the first guest on Dance At Illinois' new podcast Brew With Crew created by undergraduate student Anna Lillig. He discussed his dance career so far as well as his teaching and choreographic philosophies. Watch the full episode here.

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Jaymes joins the cast of Landon Allender's An Endless Thread.

Jaymes performs in Resilient Reflections by Genesis Medious in Dance At Illinois' Fall Senior Thesis Concert 2023: Solace. Additionally, he acts as one of 3 videographers in the show.

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Jaymes acts as a guest teacher for Dance At Illinois Black Advocacy Team's house and hip hop workshop teaching house dance.

Jaymes acts as a videographer and one of 2 live stream directors for Dance At Illinois October Dance Concert 2023.

Jaymes performs in a new work by Adanya Gilmore as apart of the Humanities Research Institute Interseminar Program.

Jaymes acts as a teaching assistant to Ty Lewis in Jazz Funk for non dance majors at Dance At Illinois.

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Jaymes begins his second tenure as the Social Media Chair for the Dance At Illinois Black Advocacy Team.

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Jaymes begins his second tenure as an intern for Dance At Illinois.

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Jaymes begins his third tenure on the Dance At Illinois Student Board acting as one of two secretaries.

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Jaymes joins the cast of Genesis Medious' Resilient Reflections.

Jaymes begins his second tenure as a high school summer intensive counselor.

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Jaymes takes over lead of the Dance At Illinois Mentorship program succeeding Jordyn Gibson.