Tyrus Watson is a dancer, choreographer, and movement leader known for bringing energy, creativity, and community connection through hip-hop dance. His dance journey has taken him across multiple stages and opportunities, including work connected to the TV show So You Think You Can Dance and contributing to an Emmy Award–winning choreographed solo commercial.

With years of experience performing and teaching hip-hop, Tyrus has dedicated his career to inspiring dancers of all levels while celebrating the culture, musicality, and expression that make movement powerful.

With over 20 years of experience in dance, choreography, and instruction, Tyrus has worked with dancers across multiple generations, helping them develop confidence, stage presence, and a deeper connection to movement. Whether performing, teaching, or leading community-centered dance experiences, he continues to use dance as a tool to inspire, educate, and bring people together.

Kyla Kikkawa (she/her) is a movement artist originally from Altadena, CA. A graduate from the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at Washington University, Kyla is an interdisciplinary and lifelong learner, as well as a fusion dancer who lives between the concert and street dance worlds. She lives for the healing power of movement, but her passions have also led her to play live music in hospitals in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Managua, Nicaragua. Kyla is an educator of neurodiverse and neurotypical youth, adults, and older adults and cares deeply about intergenerational and intercultural healing and exchange. 

Kyla directed her college team WUHHU to a first place win at Prelude New England in 2023, and she battles in the KRUMP and all-styles dance scenes in St. Louis where she’s often one of if not the only female on the floor. In STL, she goes by Princezz X/O and is so grateful to find depth and community in both improvisational and choreographic works and worlds. 

She strives to be an active uplifter of the city and a player in the explosion of a more interconnected and truly passionate St. Louis dance and arts community. Kyla is a member of the St. Louis KRUMP community, Arch Maddnezz, Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective, Kode Redd Dance Company, and Leverage Dance Theater. Kyla enjoys pouring directly into or empowering those around her to be uniquely themselves, and to move in the way that they prefer while doing it. She also recently graduated from RAC’s Community Arts Training, and she looks forward to further incorporating somatic education into her work as a community builder. In due time, Kyla hopes to build bridges between art, science, and community, particularly regarding the accessibility and definitions of distinct forms of knowledge of the body, mind, and soul.