Founder & Artistic Director

Jacob "Kujo" Lyons is a b-boy first. He's been a preeminent figure in the global breakdance scene for the past two decades, performing, competing, judging competitions, and teaching in over 30 countries on 6 continents. His creative contributions to b-boy culture and movement vocabulary are indisputable, and continue to inspire and influence b-boys around the world to this day.

Kujo has been featured in some very high-profile media projects - he back-flipped into jeans for a Levi's national commercial, was the principal b-boy in Run DMC's music video, "It's Like That," and was featured in the film Step Up 2: The Streets. Kujo is also an accomplished circus artist - he excels on aerial straps and Chinese poles, and has performed in numerous shows internationally. He was also hired by Cirque du Soleil as a consultant for The Beatles: Love.

While completing his degree in Dance Kinesiology at Cal State Northridge, Kujo began to combine his various movement talents - breakdance, modern dance, ballet, acrobatics, and circus - into a dynamic, hybrid method of choreography. This new technique, along with Kujo's global reputation for innovation, attracted some highly talented acrobatic dancers looking for something completely different, and in 2006, Lux Aeterna was born. Lux has since established itself as one of Los Angeles’ premiere dance theater companies, and continues to innovate with its new approach to urban dance & circus theater.

Lauren Michelle LiBrandi is a highly versatile movement artist. She's trained extensively in Modern, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Gymnastics, Partnering, Ballroom, Break Dancing, and Aerial Arts, including silks, hammock, and lyra.

She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Choreography from Florida State University in 2007. She has performed from coast to coast with Instruments of Movement, Millicent Johnny Dance Company, Street Beat Drum Eclectic and has guest performed for NYU, CAP 21, and APAP in New York City.

Lauren currently teaches dance, acro dance, and gymnastics at at Kinetic Theory Circus School, Adderley School, and JJ Gym. She performs worldwide with Cirque Montage as the main character, Raven, and locally with Antics Performance, Ladies In Lace, and "Shrumps". In her spare time is focused on solo choreography exploration, artistic directing/co-choreography, and traveling the globe eager to share her light.

Lauren has worked with Lux Aeterna since 2008, first as a dancer, and now as co-choreographer of our new, evening-length show. She also performs as an aerialist in the show, on duo silks and duo lyra.

Sarah M. Moser is a dynamic and versatile performer competent in diverse fields of entertainment, working as a professional Cirque artist, dancer, and stuntwoman. She has worked across the globe and her strong work ethic and passion is clearly evident in her performance. She loves to blend and combine elements of various movement methods in ways that are at once unexpected and complementary.

In the circus world, Sarah loves to spin on Roue Cyr, but also performs on aerial silks, lyra, trapeze, bungee, stilts, unicycle, adagio, and hand to hand. In the dance world, Sarah is proficient in ballet, jazz, modern, and tap, but also has dabbled in hip-hop, breaking, swing, and salsa. In stunts and martial arts, Sarah has trained in Escrima, Wu Shu, XMA, and acrobatics.

Some of Sarah's many credits include performing with Cirque Berzerk at Club Nokia, globally with Cirque Montage and Lux Aeterna. She's done corporate events with Zen Arts, Lucent Dossier, Troupe Vertigo, Street Beat and Kung Fu Femmes. Sarah has also worked in numerous California theme parks: she played the Magic Carpet at Disneyland, performed in Cirque de la Mer at SeaWorld and in The Hanging at Knott's Scary Farm. She continues to work at Pirates Dinner Adventure, playing the Golden Gypsy.

Ryan Johnson, born in Manhattan and raised on both the east and west coast, has fused a unique blend of movement styles over his nearly 15 years as a movement and performance artist.

Ryan began his journey with a style of movement called Eurythmy, originated by Rudolf Steiner in conjunction with Marie von Sivers in the early 20th century. Since this early education Ryan has since moved on to earn the level of Black Belt in Karate, and spent years cultivating skills in gymnastics, breaking, popping, locking, commercial hip hop, modern dance and ballet. Ryan graduated from Middlebury College in the spring of 2006, earning Bacherlors of Arts degrees in Chinese and Psychology.

Since 2008, Ryan has proudly worked in conjunction with the world-famous bboy Jacob "Kujo" Lyons in his innovative and award winning dance & circus theater company, Lux Aeterna.

Lamonte "Tales" Goode has been entertaining the world for over 15 years. Tales has established himself as a premier dancer, abstract b-boy, acrobat and balance expert. He has displayed his incredible skills in numerous showcases, video spots, commercials, movies, print ads and TV.

Some of Tales' many credits include films such as You Got Served, Step Up 2, and Alvin & the Chipmunks; music videos for Wyclef, Kid Rock and many more; commercials for Levi's, Apple, & Budweiser, among others; and countless live performances, industrials, print ads, and TV appearances.

Tales joined Lux Aeterna in 2010. He brings to the show his highly refined and evolved movement method, combining circus-style hand-balance and contortion with his b-boy skills for a mesmerizing solo act.

Wendy Lam, aka Wenrock, acquired her first movement background in Kung Fu while growing up on the island of Oahu. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiological Sciences and Women's Studies, and a Bachelor of Art degree in World Arts and Cultures with a focus in Dance. Her inventory of dance studies includes Modern/Postmodern, AfroCuban, Improvisation, and Contact Improvisation.

She also fell in love with Hip Hop during this time and has been an avid practitioner of Bgirling, or breakdancing, since 2001. Wenrock has battled in bboy/bgirl competitions around the United States and abroad, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Australia. She represents an all-female crew called The Syrenz, who are well versed in all Hip Hop Funk styles including Waacking, Locking, House dance, New Jack, Breaking and Hip Hop choreo. Wenrock also performs aerial silks and lyra with her circus crew The Furies in various clubs, such as Marquee Cosmopolitan in Vegas, Avalon in Hollywood, and Belasco in Downtown LA.

Wenrock has been seen on Avril Lavinge's Best Damn Tour, Black Eye Peas "The End" viral, Justin Bieber and Usher's "Somebody to Love" Music Video, and recently on Nickelodeon's "Big Time Rush."

Wenrock is the newest addition to Lux Aeterna. All of her skills are utilized in our new show - breaking, contemporary, duo silks, duo lyra, and duo straps.

Teresa Barcelo, born and raised in Miami has been dancing for most of her twenty seven years. Starting with her Spanish roots in Flamenco, she has also studied Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Contemporary, West African, Indian dance, Contact Improvisation, Latin dance, and choreography through out her school years.

After leaving New World School for the Arts College, Teresa a.k.a. "Toogie," has been focusing on fusing contemporary dance and aerial dance with street styles such as Popping, Locking, Waacking, and Housing. As a performer, Teresa’s versatility has allowed her to work in several categories of the arts, ranging from the theatre to the commercial world to the circus to street performance.

She has worked with the Lux Aeterna, Antics performance, Geovanni Luquini Performance Troupe, Pablo Cano, Octavio Campos’ Camposition, Diana Lozano’s Circ-X, Control Freaks (poppin/lockin crew), Heartbreakerz (international female dance crew), Illeigh Reynolds’ aerial dance A.O.P.T., Cirque USA, Circo De Los Horrores from Spain, D- Projects, Silverlake Ballet, Univision and Telemundo spanish television, Paulina Rubio, Gloria Trevi, Pittbull and many other major latin artists. She also has danced and assistant choreographed for artists such as Sean Paul and Sean Kingston.

In addition, Teresa premiered her first solo piece entitled “Z-minus,” commissioned by Miami Light Project and the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at the Here & Now festival in 2008. In 2009 she was commissioned by Crystal Parrot Players to create her second solo piece entitled “Monsters” and also by Florida International University to create work there. Recently she performed solo on the Carnival Choreographers Ball in LA, where she now resides.

She has won national awards for hip-hop choreography competitions, and won solo freestyle competitions. Recently she was teaching Popping, Waacking and Improvisation at Renne Harris' Illadelph festival. She is known amongst her peers as an Alien robot flying dinosaur, an Artist before any other title.

Gevorg Manoukian (born September 15, 1986), Armenian/Russian hip hop and break dancer. Originally from Kazakhstan, Manoukian is now living in Centerville, Utah. He performed in High School Musical 2 . Manoukian first auditioned for season 2 and made it to Vegas, but his lack of versatility kept him out of the top 20. He then auditioned for season 4 and successfully qualified as a finalist beating out future season 5 runner up Brandon Bryant. He was paired with Courtney Galiano. He was eliminated in the top 10. Manoukian was also in the MTV musical American Mall.

In November 2010, Gev performed at the 2010 American Music Awards with Pink to her hit song Raise Your Glass.