Hope B. Byers is an award-winning choreographer whose artistic platform is to share truths largely about the Black American experience, history, racism, and social justice. With this work, she aims to create awareness, provoke dialogue and inspire change. As a veteran member of Baltimore’s Full Circle Dance Company, Hope’s choreography has become a staple of the company’s repertoire. She is a recipient of Howard County Arts Council’s 2024 IAM Creativity grant award in the dance discipline. Hope formerly performed with Washington, D.C. companies, Floyd Project Dance Company and Rafiki Dance Theatre. Her choreography has been selected for presentation locally by the Baltimore Black Dance Collective and Dance Baltimore, and regionally by Dogtown Dance, Koresh Dance Company and the Maryland Council for Dance. Her work has been performed at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Chesapeake Arts Center, Creative Alliance, David Cooper Black Box Theater, Dogtown Dance Theatre, Gordon Center for Performing Arts, Kraushaar Auditorium, Lyric Opera House, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Slayton House Theatre and Strand Theater.