Infamous Dance: Local dancers with attitude | News-Leader, Fernandina Beach Florida

Body Three days a week, some very motivated girls gather in an empty room on Elm Street in Fernandina Beach to learn hip-hop dance from Tayren Way. His qualifications? Loving dance and loving his dance troupe, Infamous Dance.The 25-year-old Fernandina Beach native says he “always” danced in church and started his first “little dance thing” at his church on Elm Street in his mid-teens.“I have never had any dance training. It’s all from me learning, and YouTube, and loving it,” Way said. “I started with praise dancing, and I just branched out to hip-hop and kept going and going and didn’t stop.”He grew up, graduated from Fernandina Beach High School and got a job at a bank, not pursuing dance as a career or a hobby.“I never realized how much I loved dance until I stopped doing it,” he said. He and a friend were doing a lot of dances they found on TikTok, and from that came the idea to create a dance troupe.“I was like, why not have a group?” he said. “Out of impulse, I’m like, let me start this. At the time, I thought, nobody’s going to join, this is probably not going to do so...