Our teachers

Menno - breaking

Instagram: mennovangorp

Crew: Hustle Kidz

Accomplishments:
 🏅 3-time Red Bull BC One World Champion
 🏅 Winner Freestyle Session 2019
 🏅 Winner Battle Of The Year 2015
 🏅 Winner UK B-boy Championships 2013

Menno is known as one of the most successful b-boys in breaking history. He has won almost every big solo international breaking competition in the world. He is also the only person to become Red Bull BC One World Champion three times.

He is a role model for all breakers and a living legend of this dance style.

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Kelly - hip hop

Instagram: kellsz_b

Crew: X-Gen

Accomplishments:
🏅 Competitor at Red Bull Dance your Style 2019
🏅 Winner Dutch national championships for house dance 2016
🏅 Judge at many (inter)national hip hop and house dance battles

Kelly is an elite stand-up dancer in the Dutch dance scene. She's been active in dance for over ten years and has won numerous competitions in both house and hip hop dance. Alongside battling, Kelly performs in the dance theatre world. Above all, Kelly is an amazing dance teacher.

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Tamara - house dance

Instagram: tamararobledooud

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Winner World Championship House UK Bboy Champs 2017
🏅 Winner International Dance League House 2022
🏅 Winner House Istanbul Streetdance Carnival 2018
🏅 Finalist Red Bull Dance Your Style Netherlands

Tamara is a professional all-round dancer who has been dancing from a young age and has trained in many styles. She has been doing house for over 13 years. Tamara became an internationally known artist, dancing on some of the big battle stages such as House Dance Forever, Waacking Forever, IBE, Juste Debout, Flavourama (Austria), Ladies Of Hiphop (NYC), Streetstar (Sweden), being a finalist at the Red Bull Dance Your Style Netherlands and winning various battles (inter)nationally in house, waacking, and allstyle. Next to competing, Tamara is a choreographer, educator, organizer and performs globally. She has toured with different Dutch theatre makers, performs at festivals worldwide and is part of the Rotterdam-based dance company Amenti.

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Lee - breaking

Instagram: leetheruggeds

Crew: the Ruggeds

Accomplishments:
🏅 Battle of the Year (2022) crew winner
🏅 Winner Crashfest IBE 2020 & 2021
🏅 2nd place Red Bull BC One World final
🏅 2nd Place WDSF Spain - European World Championships in Breaking

Lee started dancing when he was 2(!) years old, and was already competing in local breaking battles at the age of 5. He joined The Ruggeds at the age of 10, and after that his skills evolved quickly.

His dedication to the dance has resulted into currently being known as one of the very best breakers on the planet. In 2021 he joined the Red Bull BC One Allstars, which is globally known as the most elite breaking group on the planet.

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Alesya - house dance

Instagram: alesya_mij

 Accomplishments:
🏅 Prize Winner Summer Dance Forever Amsterdam🏅 Prize winner Juste Debout Paris
🏅 Prize Street Star house dance battle, Stockholm

Alesya Dobysh is a professional dancer, choreographer, and curator based in the Netherlands. She began her career in the street and club dance scene, where she cultivated a love for house dance culture that has formed the basis of her artistic pursuits. She has been an active participant in the battle dance scene, having taken main prizes at international competitions.

Throughout her 15-year career as a dancer, Alesya has stood out with her creative and authentic style, which includes influences from UK Jazz Fusion and Contemporary dance.

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Stepper - breaking

Instagram: steppertheruggeds

Crew: the Ruggeds

Accomplishments:
🏅 Battle of the Year 2022 crew winner
🏅 Freestyle Session 2022 crew winner
🏅 Red Bull BC One Holland winner (2 times)

Stepper is a professional breaker with over 15 years of breaking experience. He started competing in 2007 and over the years he has won a lot of competitions both nationally and internationally.

In 2011 he first got in touch with the Ruggeds, with which he brought his breaking career to the next level. With the Ruggeds, he has won some of the biggest competitions on the planet such as Freestyle Session and Battle of the Year.

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India - breaking

Instagram: indiasardjoehh

Crew: Hustle Kidz, Heavy Hitters

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Winner European games 2023 - qualifed for Olympics in Paris 2024
🏅 Winner Red Bull BC One 2022
🏅 Winner European Championship 2022
🏅 Winner Dutch Championship 2022

India is the current national, European and world breaking champion of the women's division at only 16 years of age. When she got introduced to breaking back when she was a 7-year old kid, she was blown away by it.

She went all-in on breaking and started practicing hard, and that has paid off over the years. In 2022, India became a national, European and world champion - all within a timespan of 6 months. In 2024 she will compete for the Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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Hassani - popping & house dance

Instagram: hassani_lecouvreur

Crew: X-Gen, Pigeons Crew

Accomplishments:
🏅 Winner Juste Deboute Netherlands - multiple times
🏅 First person to pass the prelims on two dance styles at SummerDance Forever, the most prestigious all-style battle event in the world.

Hassani is an all-round professional dancer out of Rotterdam, the Netherlands who has been dancing for 13 years. He's the leader of Pigeons crew, the leading all-style dance crew in Holland. He has been successful winning battles both nationally and internationally in multiple dance styles, such as popping, hip hop and house dance.

Hassani is a charismatic teacher of dance with a lot of valuable information to share.

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Lorenzo - breaking

Instagram: lorenzo_bboy

Crew: the Ruggeds

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Red Bull BC One world finalist in New York
🏅 1st place Freestyle Session 2022 LA (the Ruggeds x Squadron)
🏅 1st place Battle of the Year World Finals 2022 in Japan

Lorenzo is the youngest teacher on our platform. At the age of 10, he became national champion for the kids category in the Netherlands. When he was 12, Lorenzo became world champion in the youth category. Since then, he has been on a mission to the top of the international breaking scene.

Lorenzo has won over 40 global breaking competitions and is considered to be one of the top-tier breakers in the international breaking scene. Lorenzo is currently training to become a participant of the Olympic Games of Paris in 2024.

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Jeems - hip hop

Instagram: jeemsongram

Crew: Pigeons Crew

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Juste Debout 2016 & 2020 World Finalist
🏅 International hip hop battle The Week Italy Winner
🏅 International hip hop battle HiphopKingz x IBE Winner
🏅 International Dance League Winner

Jeems is a professional dancer from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. With his dance crew ‘The Pigeons’ they dominate the Dutch hip hop dance battle scene. Jeems has been performing and traveling around the world to countries like Austria, France, Ukraine, England, Italy, Germany, China, Taiwan and the USA as a full time professional dancer, doing both shows and competitions.

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Faïsi - breaking

Instagram: faisivanhecke

Faïsi is known for his lightness and feasibility. He's researching different training disciplines and develops a new framework of practice to share with his community. People come to Faïsi to be in unity, he inspires others on their journey of remembrance and reclamation of the self. Everybody needs the chance to grow, rise and shine. Faïsi helps you to find connection to your body, your home. The greatest gift we can give ourselves are the unique parts present within. Starting from this essence Faïsi is creating a gift that keeps on giving, authentically from the heart.

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Chanel - hip hop

Instagram: chanel.049

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Winner several big hip hop dance competitions across the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and England
🏅Organizer of 'Spring Battle' Dance event in Hamburg, Germany
🏅Collaborated with brands like Red Bull, Nike and About You

Chanel is a professional hip hop dancer who has experience working with various large theatre productions in Germany. She has won many international dance competitions and received a scholarship from the Anne-L.-Austen-Romers foundation for her dance practices. In present days Chanel travels across Europe to compete in dance competitions and do commercial dance work.

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Roy - breaking

Instagram: roytheruggeds

Crew: the Ruggeds

Accomplishments:
🏅 Main role in Hennessy Commercial
🏅 Dancing in the video clip of Justin Bieber
🏅 Battle of the Year (2022) crew winner
🏅 Nominated for best dance production with a show called 'Waterbrothers' at 'De Nederlandse Dansdagen'.

Roy is a choreographer, performing dancer, model and member of 'The Ruggeds'. Roy has a unique view on movement and makes connections like no other. With numerous major battle wins such as 'Battle of The Year' to his name, he travels the world with his crew for theatre productions and commercials. With an eye for detail and a conceptual way of creating, he teaches classes at dance schools.

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Dalil - popping

Instagram: dalil_wave

Accomplishments:
🏅 Joining and winning competitions all around the world
🏅 Performing for top-tier brands such as Puma, Zalando and Red Bull

Dalil Belmir alias Dalil Wave is a well-known international popping dancer. He has been popping since he was a teenager. He performs at big stages all over the world, and shares his knowledge internationally through giving workshops. He is one of the best in Germany.

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Tawatha - popping

Instagram: tawathacamilla

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Winner 'de dans marathon' 2021
🏅 Competed in many (inter)national dance competitions
🏅 Competitor at Red Bull Dance Your Style

Tawatha Camilla is a Dutch dancer who specializes in popping. She is active as a competitor in both national and international dance battles. Next to competing, she has created a solo theatre piece that she has performed throughout the Netherlands. Tawatha is known to be an all-round great dancer and a well-respected popper in the dance scene.

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Jeremy - hip hop

Instagram: jeremyorigins

Accomplishments:
🏅 Finalist Juste Debout Amsterdam - hip hop
🏅 Winner World of Dance Battle Netherlands
🏅 Winner Raw Essence Netherlands
🏅 Ed Sheeran videoclip performance '2 step'

Jeremy is an all-round hip hop dancer with extensive experience in both competing and showcases. As he has been dancing for over a decade, Jeremy developed a smooth dancing style, resulting in him winning several hip hop dance battles in Europe.

He has worked with several big artists on shows, performing all around the world.

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Tramai - hip hop

Instagram: tramai.official

Crew: Pigeons Crew

Accomplishments: 
🏅 Danced at Koningsconcert Ahoy 2023
🏅 Performed on TV with rapper Typhoon
🏅 Teaches at several professional dance courses
🏅 Given several Orokana workshops

Tramai is a Dutch hip hop dancer who specializes in choreography. He started dancing at the dance academy in Utrecht back in 2015. Here he met the dancers that paved the way for a successful career in hip hop dance.

In present times, Tramai is a well respected dancer in the Dutch hip hop dance scene. He is active in battles, shows and works as a dance choreographer.

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Ozzi - breaking

Instagram: ozzi.udc

Crew: Hustle Kidz, the Underdogs

Accomplishments:
🏅 2-time winner of Red Bull BC One - the Netherlands
🏅 Semi finalist Red Bull BC One Last chance Cypher in New York 2022
🏅 Winner Freestyle Session Europe Battle
🏅 Theatre production 'Dorian' with the Dutch National Ballet and Ish Dance Collective 2022-2023

Ozzi is a dancer from Utrecht, the Netherlands. With his crew 'the Underdogs', he has been joining competitions since the age of 14. Ozzi is a top-tier competitor in the international breaking scene and has won numerous competitions all around the world. He also competed at the Red Bull Breaking World Championships in New York in 2022 - the most prestigious international breaking competition. The multi-talented Ozzi is also active in the theatre world and tours around Europe with amazing shows.