Hip-hop
4 classes a week
Grooves, rocks and party steps first, choreography second. The Monday and Saturday classes assume you have never done it; Wednesday assumes you have.
Old supermarket · Mallinckrodtstraße 12 · Dortmund Nordstadt
Hip-hop, dancehall, afro — €9 a class, walk in
No membership. No class card. No direct debit going out on the first of the month. You turn up, you pay nine euros to the person on the door, you dance. Your first class costs nothing at all.
- any class
- 9 €any class
- your first one
- 0 €your first one
- monthly plans
- nonemonthly plans
- rooms, 58 places
- 2rooms, 58 places
€9 a class · first class free · walk in · no contract · cash or card at the door · full is full
Live from the door tablet
Tonight in the hall
This is the same count the person on the desk is looking at right now. Nine euros, cash or card, and you are in.
Reading the door tablet…
Friday
17:00
Kids Street
with Selin Yıldırım · in the Cold store · 7 €
4 left now18:30
Heels
with Selin Yıldırım · in the Shop floor · 9 €
12 left now20:00
Dancehall
with Chantal Owusu-Mensah · in the Shop floor · 9 €
Full right now21:45
Breaking
with Rafik Bouzid · in the Shop floor · 9 €
3 left now
Every class, every night
The whole week
Two rooms, twenty-six classes, one price. Filter by style, then just turn up. Nothing here can be booked — the pill on each class is the honest state of the room.
Filter by style
26 classes
Weekly class schedule. Each class shows the number of places still free.
FridayFriToday
17:00
60′
7 €
Kids Street
Selin Yıldırım · Cold store
Ages 8–13
4 left now18:30
75′
9 €
Heels
Selin Yıldırım · Shop floor
Open level
12 left now20:00
90′
9 €
Dancehall
Chantal Owusu-Mensah · Shop floor
Open level
Full right now21:45
90′
9 €
Breaking
Rafik Bouzid · Shop floor
Open level
3 left now
- live door count
- eight-week median
- at capacity
How the spots-left number is counted
Reading the door tablet…
There is no online booking at Studio Zwölf, so nothing on this page is a reservation. The only counter is the tablet on the folding table by the door: the person on the desk taps you in when you pay. Everything you see here comes from that tablet and nowhere else.
Today's classes show the live number: room capacity minus the people already tapped in. The page re-reads the door every 60 seconds.
Every other day shows the median number still free when that class started, over the last eight weeks. It is a guide, not a promise.
When a class reads full, it is full. We stop the door at capacity because the floor runs out, and we will not squeeze one more person in because they messaged us.
Seven things you can walk into
The styles
Nobody will ask what level you are. Turn up to whatever sounds good; if it is wrong for you the teacher will say so and you can try the next one on Thursday.
Dancehall
4 classes a week
Jamaican steps with the names kept — bogle, wine, gully creep. Loud, low and sweaty. Chantal's Friday class is the fullest thing we run.
Afro
4 classes a week
Afrobeats and coupé-décalé, footwork and chest. Big group energy, very little mirror-staring.
Breaking
4 classes a week
Toprock, footwork, freezes, and enough conditioning that your wrists survive. Rafik runs it like a training room, not a course.
House
3 classes a week
Jacking, lofting, fast feet on a 125 bpm floor. The quietest class we run and the one people stay in longest.
Heels
3 classes a week
Femme choreography in heels or in trainers, entirely your call. Selin's class is mixed and nobody is watching you.
Kids Street
4 classes a week
Eight to thirteen, street basics and a lot of games. Seven euros, and one grown-up stays in the building.
Four people, no receptionist
Who's teaching
Between them they cover every class on the board. Two of them also take the money on the door, which is why the counts on this page are accurate.
Deniz Arslan
Hip-hop, house · runs the door
Grew up four streets away on Schützenstraße and started the studio in the empty supermarket in 2019 because nowhere in the Nordstadt would let you dance for under twenty euros. Teaches the basics class like it matters, because it is the one most people never come back from.
Teaches: Hip-hopHouse
Chantal Owusu-Mensah
Dancehall, afro · co-owner
Kingston steps learned in Amsterdam, afrobeats learned at home in Accra and at every Ghanaian wedding in North Rhine-Westphalia since. Will correct your knees six times in one class and mean it kindly every time.
Teaches: DancehallAfro
Rafik Bouzid
Breaking · open floor
Twelve years in cyphers from Marseille to Duisburg. Opens the cold store an hour before his class so people can train alone, and does not charge for that hour.
Teaches: Breaking
Selin Yıldırım
Heels, Kids Street
Teaches the eight-year-olds on Monday and the heels class on Tuesday, and says the eight-year-olds are harder. Speaks Turkish, German and enough English to fix your posture.
Teaches: HeelsKids Street
Prices and house rules
What it costs, what we ask
Prices
- Any class, any style, any night
- €9
- Your first class ever
- €0
- Kids Street, ages 8–13
- €7
- Rent the hall, no teacher, per hour
- €22
That is the entire price list. There is nothing under it, nothing above it and nothing to sign.
House rules
- Cash or card at the door. There is no app and there is nothing to install.
- Be at the desk ten minutes before. The desk closes when the class starts — that is when the count on this page freezes.
- Clean indoor soles. The floor is sprung and the Nordstadt is not.
- Full is full. When a class reads zero there is no waiting list and no favours, and we will tell you that to your face.
- Kids Street: one adult stays in the building for the hour. Not in the room — in the building.
- Ask the room before you film. Somebody in it is always dancing in public for the first time.
- Water from the tap by the old checkouts is free. Everything else in the fridge is one euro, honesty box.
There is no monthly plan
We are asked for one most weeks and the answer does not change. No memberships, no ten-class cards, no direct debit, no minimum term, no “introductory offer” that renews at forty euros. If you come twice a month you pay eighteen euros; if you stop coming you pay nothing and nobody phones you. That is the whole business model and it is the reason the studio exists.
Renting the hall
22 €/ h
Twenty-two euros an hour for the shop floor when no class is on, sound system included. Crews, rehearsals, a school group, a birthday. Message us on WhatsApp with the day and we will tell you straight away whether it is free.
Asked at the door most nights
Questions
Do I have to book?
No, and you can't. There is no booking system on this site or anywhere else. Look at the number on the class, come to Mallinckrodtstraße, pay at the desk.
What if it says full when I get there?
Then it is full and you have come for nothing, which is the honest trade-off for having no booking. Check the page before you leave the house — today's numbers are live and the desk updates them as people walk in.
Is the first class really free?
Yes, once, for your first ever class here. Tell the person on the door it is your first time. Nobody will ask you for a card number afterwards because we do not have anywhere to put one.
I have never danced. Which class?
Monday 18:30 hip-hop, Tuesday 17:30 afro, Thursday 17:30 dancehall or Sunday 12:00 heels. All four are built for people who have never done it.
What do I wear?
Whatever you can move in, plus indoor trainers with clean soles. The cold store gets very warm — bring a second shirt.
Do you speak Turkish?
Evet. Selin teaches in Turkish whenever the room needs it, and the desk is bilingual most nights. This whole site is in Turkish too.
Can I come and just watch?
Yes, free, sit at the side. Say so at the desk so you are not counted into the room.
Innenstadt-Nord
Find us, tell us you're coming
You do not have to write to us to come dancing — the door is the booking system. But if it is your first time and you want somebody to look out for you, send this and one of us will.
The hall
Mallinckrodtstraße 12
44145 Dortmund · Innenstadt-Nord
The old supermarket, entrance under the yellow awning at the side. U-Bahn Leopoldstraße, four minutes.
Phone+49 231 5867412
Desk hours
- Monday – Friday
- 16:30 – 23:15
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:30 – 18:00
The desk is open from thirty minutes before the first class until the last one starts.
Fastest way to ask about hall rental or whether a class is filling up.
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