KR3TS Dance Company and The Hood Lockers

This performance took place August 4, 2023.

KR3TS Dance Company (Keep Rising to the Top), based in New York City, and The Hood Lockers, based in Philadelphia, performed on the Henry J. Leir Stage for one night only, as part of our “Hip Hop Across the Pillow” week-long mini-festival celebrating 50 years of hip hop. 

KR3TS Dance Company strives to broaden the notion of what a dancer is, and to promote the preservation of ethnic and cultural dances based in Spanish Harlem. The dance company provides a positive alternative to social and street pressures among children and young adults in lower and middle-income families in Latino communities of New York City, mainly by providing dance classes and support programs in a non-discriminating atmosphere. KR3TS Dance Company also carries out its mission through its core-performance group that fosters pre-professional dancers. 

The Hood Lockers formed in 2005 as a “group of brothers united in funk” who have devoted their lives to the cultural preservation and progression of Locking. Although the group’s members perform a variety of styles of street dance, their common purpose is an enthusiasm for the iconic early 1970s street dance created by Don “Campbellock” Campbell. Inspired by Don and the Lockers—the pioneers of this style—The Hood Lockers serve as educators and influencers of this culture, always inspired by the hunger for a deeper understanding of “the true essence of getting down.”