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Episode 2: Orlando De Leon

Orlando De Leon Jr. is ais a new generation street-style movement artist. Self-trained from the age of 12, OJ is interested in styles including animation, tutting and liquid styles of street dance.. Orlando is the Co-founder of [un]common grounds, a Chicago-based dance initiative that promotes artists’ connection making as well as freestyle expression.

Episode 1: Vershawn Sanders Ward

Sanders-Ward is the Founding Artistic Director and CEO of Red Clay Dance Company. Sanders-Ward is a 2019 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Awardee, a 2019 Harvard Business School Club of Chicago Scholar, a 2017 Dance/USA Leadership Fellow, a 2013 3Arts awardee, and a 2009 Choreography Award from Harlem Stage NYC. In 2015, 2018 and 2020, NewCity Magazine selected Ward as one of the “Players 50, People Who Really Perform for Chicago.”