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Jaymes Crowder-Acres

@unapologetically_jaymes

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Moving with clean hands and a pure heart ❤️
Chicago 📍
UIUC ‘24 BFA Dance Alum
Dance Page: @jay_echo_movement

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I've been so fortunate to be able to photograph some of the most incredible rising stars in the concert dance world--most of them as students!!! Movement is a philosophy, not only through the body of a dancer, but also in the choreography how an eye moves around the frame of a still image. Choreo by @drrizzuto @jacobhenss1 @sarahmarksmininsohn

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We’re closing out Black History Month by celebrating our incredible Black MFA & BFA Dance at Illinois alumni! ✨

From their favorite campus memories to the dance works that shaped them and the paths their artistry has taken since then!

Their journeys reflect creativity, resilience, and impact and their stories showcase the lasting influence of Black artists within and beyond Dance at Illinois, and the powerful legacy they continue to build. 🪩

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when He gives you a vision, act on it.

Choreography: @genesisnyahm
Dancers: @hh.ellee @unapologetically_jaymes @justjaniyaaa @genesisnyahm
Music Geniuses: @yussefdayes @rocco_palladino @vennagram & Alexander Bourt . Thank you.

I also want to give a special shoutout to my village who fit in some time to groove with me in their very busy schedule. Landon & Bre. In this field you need your village, and I am so blessed to have you all in my corner.

#housedance #chicago #dance #blackdancer #chicagodancer #explorepage #hiphop #chicagodance #jazz

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residue of a thing. Putting this bombshell together was such a wonderful and intense journey. Twice it’s hit the stage. I’m speaking that this work will go up over and over again because baby…. They are dancing and the world deserves to see it. 26 dancers. And all of them- in both casts, both versions, worked so hard making it happen….. so thankful for each of them still and always. 📸: @aeriacharles and Julie Lucas so sorry I couldn’t tag everyone/ had to re post it because it disappeared completely.

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Nights I definitely remember with people I’ll never forget 🤍

I’m obsessed with the past weekend I had it was sooo sooo good. Exactly what my heart and soul needed.

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what a freaking year, xoxo 2024💐

dance pictures: @elliotreza and natalie fiol

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I’ve spent the last two years shying away from making work outside of my “job”. Post grad school, I had this feeling that I needed to prove that I’m researching. I felt like I needed to prove that I was making- and searching- and wondering… To know me is to know that if I feel like I have to prove my right to be somewhere or do something OR EVEN TO BE SOMETHING… chilleee, I just won’t do it. So I didn’t. I’m happy I didn’t. It forced me to finally, after all of this life as “the dancer”, explore what life is like outside of this fruitful art. What that did, brought me to my humanness in a different way than I’ve found it inside of dance. I learned I like to cook and run by lakes. I learned that I enjoy hosting friends at my home and making mocktails. Most of all, I learned that my incessant need to care for and cover the people around me didn’t only exist in dance spaces. It existed in the everyday conversations I had about food, or the way I curated my home… And in all of this learning I did, I made this not so spectacular conclusion.. I can be the research too. That by living my life, and learning myself, the way I come in contact with others, the way I’m in relationship with the earth… is research too. And this little finding has fueled a whole new space of making ( in literally the last month) that I feel so held in. I’ve always talked about being covered and held externally in my research. But to hold self. To hold space for self. TO COVER MYSELF…. TO DANCE FOR MYSELF has made me see the way others find themselves in the material I make so much more abundant… And then after that you realize., it’s all research. To breathe is research baby.
BĀLA DANCE PROJECT performing “In Every Lifetime, Cover Me” At Links Hall November 2nd 2024.

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In process work/ first draft of “In Every lifetime, cover me” at Links Hall.

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In every life time… at every moment.. you will be covered. 📷: @aeriacharles

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Happy Summer!!!! We hope you’re rejuvenating and enjoying some free time. We’re still thinking about our last workshop that closed out the school year!!! Thank you to Genesis and Jaymes for leading such engaging and fun classes and thank you to all of you who came out to dance with us!!! Until next time 🤎🖤

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I’m proud to announce I’m officially BFA’d! (and Media Minored)
Thank you to UIUC, @danceatillinois and my one-of-a-kind cohort, who supported one another through 4 years of growth, discovery, and becoming. I love you all, thank you for being my family💚

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