Jacob "Kujo" Lyons

Jacob "Kujo" Lyons has been a trailblazing and controversial iconoclast in the B-Boy/Breakdance scene for 14 years. A founding member of the world-renowned B-Boy crew Soul Control, Kujo has toured nationally and internationally: performing, competing, judging competitions, speaking on panels, teaching, and sharing his ideas with dancers the world over. After appearing in the award-winning music video, Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins: "It's Like That," Kujo made an immediate impact on the world-wide B-Boy community with his explosive movements and his wild, unforgettable style, and has helped to influence the course of the dance's evolution over the past decade.

Kujo's credits include working on projects with some of the biggest names in the Hip Hop world: He's worked in music videos with such hip hop artists as Run DMC, KRS-1, Eminem, Pharaoh Monche, and Naughty By Nature, and performed onstage with Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, the Wu Tang Clan, Big Daddy Kane, and Kool Moe Dee. As a lead member of Soul Control, he has performed and competed internationally at such B-Boy events as Germany's Splash and Ultimate B-Boy Session, England's UK B-Boy Championships, Korea's World Hip Hop Festival, and Leonardo DiCaprio's birthday party in Hollywood. Competing is now a rarity, and he more often participates as a guest judge in such events as the Battle of the Year competitions in Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Japan, Korea, and China; Red Bull's Lords of the Floor in Seattle; Floor Skills in Singapore; and Caraip-Hop in Martinique. Kujo was also the first American B-Boy accepted into Montreal's Cirque Du Soleil, and has most recently worked with them on a creation project for their upcoming 2006 show.

Since taking a step back from the competitive arena, Kujo now spends much of his time teaching. He has done workshops and master classes all over Europe, as well as in Canada, Japan, Italy, Australia, Portugal, and Ireland, and has been teaching weekly classes at The Edge Performing Arts Center in Hollywood for 4 years. He's also taught the art of Breaking to the performers of Cirque Du Soleil's "Quidam," is a guest instructor for Red Bull's "Beat Riders" fantasy dance camp, and has been giving private lessons to the lead singer of punk band Taking Back Sunday.

Not content with being "just" a B-Boy, Kujo has done professional stunt work in various independent martial arts films with Kamikaze Stunts, and currently performs with the Wonder World circus company as an acrobatic character/dancer, as well as doing hand-balance and Chinese pole acts.