

I feel like I have to honestly represent. So after being in so many places and meeting and so many influential people I don’t feel like I’m coming in with an outsider’s point of view. I got a lot of cultural things from that and met people who were growing up in Amsterdam and Almere which had a lot more going on in terms of hip-hop than our little town. We went to weekly classes taught by legendary dancers, rappers, and people in the neighborhood. We just really felt like we were a part of it and that stuck with me.įrom there, I and a few of the other more dedicated students would follow my teacher to a sort of school of hip-hop theater he taught at in Amsterdam. We really dug into the culture thanks to our teacher constantly talking about it and the history behind the art. A few others and I just started meeting at random spots and at different people’s places to jam. My mother told me about a breakdance class, I joined, and immediately fell in love.

In the case of dancing, I’ve loved it since I was a kid. Dion Koster: I first started with inline skating and it quickly became a way for me and my friends to be ourselves against the average environment or something along those lines.
