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Hip Hop in San Francisco

5 verified schools across San Francisco offer hip hop — in Mission, Noe Valley, Oakland and SoMa.

Street dance styles including hip hop, breaking, popping, and locking.

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SoMa

Alonzo King LINES Dance Center

SoMa dance center of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, offering 80+ weekly classes across ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, hip hop, Bollywood, and African Rhythms in six professional studios.

  • Contemporary
  • Ballet
  • Hip Hop

SoMa

City Dance Studios

SoMa hip-hop and commercial-dance studio founded 2003 by Sandy Lee, with two locations and an in-house community for Hip Hop, K-pop, Jazz, Choreo, Contemporary, Popping, House, Salsa, and Argentine Tango.

  • Hip Hop
  • Latin & Ballroom
  • Contemporary

Mission

Dance Mission Theater

Mission District multicultural dance center founded by Krissy Keefer (co-founder of Dance Brigade), home to Grrrl Brigade youth program and 400+ children per semester.

  • Contemporary
  • Latin & Ballroom
  • Hip Hop
  • Children's Dance

Oakland

Destiny Arts Center

Ages 3+

North Oakland anchor arts nonprofit founded 1988 by Kate Hobbs, Anthony Daniels and Sarah Crowell. 7,800 sqft facility with 3 dance studios and sprung wood oak floors. Combines movement, martial arts and social-change pedagogy for youth and adults.

  • Children's Dance
  • Hip Hop
  • Contemporary

Noe Valley

MoBu Dance Studio

Ages 2+

Noe Valley dance studio founded 1995 by Takami Craddock as DancEsteem program, offering ballet, modern, hip hop, Afro-Caribbean, and creative movement for ages 2 and up plus adult Zumba and yoga.

  • Children's Dance
  • Ballet
  • Hip Hop