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From Pittsboro NC, Jabu first studied with JUBA award winner Gene Medler of the Chapel Hill Ballet School and is an 8 year member of the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE), one of the most renowned youth tap companies in the world. Jabu is a Jacob’s Pillow and YoungArts Foundation alum who has performed with a diverse group of companies, such as Caleb Teicher’s CT&Co. and Chloe Arnold’s Apartment 33. He was the first tap dancer to be accepted into the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Workshop at the Newport Jazz Festival and was included, under a nomination from Michelle Dorrance, in the December 2017 issue of DanceSpirit magazine as one of the dancers to look for in the next generation of tap.DanceSpirit magazine New York Times