Specialties
The Cypher Spot specializes in community and family growth through the elements of hip hop and street culture. We provide dance classes in breakdance, Krump, choreography, popping, freestyle, and more. TCS is a location for art and music development as well. We are a non-profit designed to give our community positive, uplifting, activities and a very affordable price that any family can enjoy.
History
Established in 2016.
The Cypher Spot is a 501c3 Christian Nonprofit Dance and Art Studio. We opened on June 18th 2016 in Inglewood CA and have hosted many students, teachers, competitors, etc. through our doors. Since we have opened we pursue a great and honest connection with the community around us and the hip hop and street culture community as a whole. We have been serving our community with free/affordable dance and art programs, community events, and outreaches.
During the pandemic we had to shift our service to online and we put together over 100 online classes and had streams of over 30k online from 14 different countries.
As the pandemic moved on we closed our studio doors and moved our classes to a local park. We kept our program free to help give the youth of our community something to do in the open air so that they could stay positive during a dark time.
As of August 2022 we have our brand new location in Hawthorne and we are so excited to get back to work at full capacity.
Meet the Business Owner: Corey aka Rev S.
TCS was founded by "REV the Servant" (Corey Stiver). Its been a long road and I'm excited to see where it goes from here. It all started in 2014 as I was finishing my BA-Theology from Liberty U when I felt a calling to open a dance studio. I loved the idea but thought that this was my own idea rather than God's plan: 1. Since I was in 7th Grade I planned to be a pastor. 2. I had just started dancing & frankly was no good at it. I wrote it off as nothing but God's plan always wins. From 2014-2016 it was all planning and saving. I opened the studio in June of 2016 with the continual pursuit to offer something that no one else would, not just a studio but a home. I personally am now trained in many street styles: Breakdance, krump, choreography, & a little of other styles too. I am apart of Academy of Villains (#1 Choreography Company), The Beast Camp (1 of the top krump families), and I've performed, battled, trained with the best in the world. I've gotten very far in just a few years.