“I had an idea to start a dance team…”
In 2009 Jamara Taylor started the Panthers Supreme Dance Team as a junior at Brooklyn Friends School with Rufaro Gulstone and five more enthusiastic dancers. The team quickly became a safe space for young people to connect, share their love of dance and uplift their community. Six years later, Jamara returned to Brooklyn Friends to coach the team she started as a student. During her five year tenure, she amplified their mission by growing the team to 40 members, secured new performance opportunities and fortified them as a staple brand ambassador for Brooklyn Friends School. At the peak of her work with Panthers Supreme she started Supreme Dance Company to expand her coaching and offer more professional opportunities to dancers seeking to elevate their dance careers. SDC trained during the summer and weekends until they started getting booked for competitions, commercials, music videos and performances around the tri-state area.
SDC has become a safe space for dancers seeking to elevate their training and professional opportunities. We are now expanding to include dance team coaching and consulting services for partner schools seeking to impact school spirit, student acquisition, morale and retention. Our goal is to offer classes, coaching and performances within our community and expose them to the many opportunities available to them through the art of dance.
built on legacy
Alumni and founder of Panthers Supreme, Jamara Taylor ‘10, coached Justine Brown ‘18 during her junior and senior years at Brooklyn Friends School. As her coach and mentor, Jamara guided Justine on and off the dance floor both personally and professionally. Today, they are still working fiercely to carry on the legacy started over 10 years ago. Their bond is a testament to the mission Supreme Dance Company seeks to instill in its dancers - fostering lifelong connections through passion, performance & purpose.
Jamara taylor
Jamara began her dance journey at eight years old under the tutelage of Ms. Kim Grier and the Rod Rodgers Dance Company Youth Ensemble. When she wasn’t on the dance floor, she was either doing monologues in theater camp at Boys & Girls Harbor or gliding on the ice with Figure Skating in Harlem. Being an active member in programs like these at such a young age allowed her to explore her love of performing and taught her the necessity of community spaces that foster creativity and personal development in young people. She is currently a high school dance teacher and a female emcee who plans to assert herself in the hip hop genre as an artist and owner of SDC, soon to be one of the most renowned hip hop dance companies of all time.
justine brown
Justine Brown had been dancing for over a decade and began teaching at the age of 16, around nine years ago. She was captain of her high school dance team and, after graduation, continued to work with dance students in the tri-state area. Her love for dance carried her through the pandemic as she continued to teach and coach virtually. She has competed in competitions and has experience in leading teams and expanding their performances to a unique view. She is currently an intern at IMI Studios, while balancing her work at Supreme Dance Company and her passion of being a recording artist.
MISSION & core values
Supreme Dance Company provides dance training, performance opportunities and professional resources to rising superstars.
Our mission is to provide a safe, inspiring community where young people can leverage the art of dance to gain the confidence, self esteem, and resilience needed to discover and achieve their definition of success.
Through rigorous dance training, consistent personal development curriculum and mentorship, our dancers are guided to unpack and affirm what makes them supreme in order to achieve their dreams.