HipHopHuis celebrates Staying Power in Kunsthal

Lakwena Maciver foto, Andy Rain

For twenty years already, HipHopHuis has been the Rotterdam location for arts and culture within the hip-hop community. Next to dance and DJ lessons and events, it spreads cultural knowledge with collaborations like exhibitions in Kunsthal.  ‘Staying Power. Hiphophuis invites Lakwena’ starts September 24. Following earlier collaborations, including the successful exhibition Street Dreams, these two […]

Legendary rapper Rakim celebrates 20 years of HipHopHuis

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HipHopHuis is the breeding ground for a creative young community, involved in hip-hop, dance, poetry and street art. Local breakdancers opened the initiative on September 9, 2002. The twentieth anniversary will be celebrated with The God MC Rakim among others. Rakim was a central artist in the emergence of hip hop. Widely heralded as one […]

Father Figure inspires Choreographer Lloyd Marengo

Father Figure door Guido Bosua 3

Lloyd Marengo grew up in the raw Rotterdam of the 80s and learned to dance on the streets. 10 years after his show Father Father, he returns with the successor: Father Figure. This compact dance performance shows the struggle of 4 b-boys and a percussionist with the father figure theme. Father Figure is a production […]