“I Started with styles such as breakin, popping and boogstyle in 1983/84 after watching Beat Street, Breakin’ and Breakdance 2. 1984 was really the year that I started with the styles as we didn’t have anyone in South Africa that could teach the styles, so we had to purchase the VHS copies of the movies and learn from there. Back then we performed in Shopping Centres and Hair Salons in central Johannesburg.
1984 – 1988: As the years past I became more comfortable with the styles, but also caught on to the New Jack Swing era where artists such as Bobby Brown, Teddy Riley and MC Hammer (to name a few) sparked my interest in the party dance scene and all the moves they did in their music videos.
Early Nineties: These were my prime club years where I did mostly combinations between House, Hip House, Hip Hop, Break and a mixture of rocking and locking. I also got introduced to waackin (didn’t know what it was called though), but put my own flavour on it to make it more me. Danced for the hit group back then Reel 2 Real when they toured the country with their hit song “I Like to Move it Move It”.
We used to get together in groups and jam learning from each other constantly. Did mostly Club Dance battles and became Street Dancer of the year quite a few times, winning these battles.”

Andre Calitz