Our Mission
To foster personal & artistic development through the hip hop arts, empowering youth to grow into compassionate, knowledgeable, and expressive artists who are deeply connected to themselves & their communities
Our Vision
We envision a society transformed by the waves of culture and the arts, uplifting and celebrating the expression, leadership, and innovation of the most historically silenced people.
Our Core Values
Trauma-informed approach
We value meeting ourselves & others where they are at in a way that is safe, empowering, and considerate of potential histories of trauma.
Interdependence
We value community and its importance in elevating the present, envisioning the future, and honoring the past of individuals, groups, and societies.
Culturally Sustaining education
We value students’ cultural and linguistic strengths & perspectives and the ways they inform & enhance our pursuit of knowledge, actively sustaining and nurturing these resources, similarities, and differences as catalysts for growth & expansion and a door to connection.
PRAXIS
We value the integration of learning and practice, recognizing that understanding deepens and progress happens when theory meets lived experience, vision meets sustained commitment, and knowledge becomes expressed through action.
Equity
We value the voices, experiences, and prosperity of historically silenced people and believe that their lives (not just their labor or marketable cultural products) matter.
Expression
We value the healing that results from reflection & expression, seeing mistakes as essential teachers and dance as a common vehicle through which we examine our missteps with curiosity and compassion.
In other words…
We value meeting ourselves and others where we are in ways that feel safe, empowering, and understanding of all past experiences. We value students' cultural backgrounds, languages, and perspectives. We actively support and celebrate these strengths, seeing our similarities and differences as ways to grow, learn, and connect with each other. We value the voices, experiences, and success of people who have been historically silenced. We believe their lives matter, not just their work or what they produce. We value community and how it helps us lift up the present, imagine the future, and honor the past of individuals, groups, and societies. We value combining learning with doing. We know that understanding grows stronger and real progress happens when ideas meet real-life experience, when our vision meets our commitment to action, and when knowledge becomes something we actually practice. And we value the healing that comes from thinking deeply and expressing ourselves. We see mistakes as important teachers, and we use dance as a way to explore our experiences with curiosity and kindness toward ourselves.