Theron Steele: Dancers Making Moves

"Coming up in our culture is therapy, and why we not statistics. Whether you studio or street."Theron Steele is a St. Louis native and currently a leader in the dance community for funk, experimental, and all styles. "Theo" has a mixed background in dance, having been involved early on and benefited from wonderful mentors who allowed him to experience a lot in both work and creative opportunities. His journey began at age 7 in church, dancing and miming at churches and parties around the city. One year later, through his older cousin, he discovered hip-hop and learned his first wave and the robot.Thereafter, the city of St. Louis and neighboring states became his training ground for dance, where he immersed himself in parties, skating rinks, and workshops as a student of the culture, taking performance opportunities at every turn. Mr. Duane Foster, Theo's mentor since middle school, made great efforts to place him in front of better experiences, workshops and teachers. He studied Graham, Horton, and Ailey, learning while working to catch buses or trains to nearby states for workshops.If not there, he was at the library, researching through YouTube. He started his first studio teaching job at 16. After graduation, Theo began working within the school system and found several studio homes in STL, spanning over 15 years of working with all ages and abilities. He's since added festival and flow or circus arts, communities traveling across the country to teach hip-hop and popping/animating to dubstep, which is his preferred style. Theo's current goals are to reform the approach to the dance community in St. Louis and to establish a combined effort of studio and street dance to promote our city's scenes together and create long-lasting communities.Follow @dancers.making.moves on Instagram and Facebook and learn more about the artists involved in this project at www.dancersmakingmoves.com.