About

Quincy has been dancing as long as he can remember. His dad, a true salsa lover, was always playing music and dancing around the house, and his older sisters passed on their love of hip-hop. In 2003, at eleven, he was approached to join a hip-hop dance group. To sharpen his performances he taught himself breaking, new moves and beatbox with the help of YouTube. By sixteen he was choreographing and teaching.

At seventeen, at an open day of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, he was scouted by Jocelyn Bergland and invited to audition for the 5 o'clock programme. That year of technique led into the four-year Urban Contemporary programme, unique in Europe for combining high-level dance training with singing, acting and tap, which he completed.

Since then he has worked with renowned choreographers and artists: with Herman van Veen on #Damadama, and touring the Netherlands in Alida Dors' theatre piece Oogst. In recent years his work has moved further into theatre, touring as dancer and puppeteer in Mark Haayema's Johannes de Parkiet, and appearing on screen as dancer and presenter in the TV series Dans mee met Zuzu (NPO Zappelin). Theatre is where the centre of his performing life sits today. In 2016 he also returned to the style closest to his Caribbean roots: salsa. What began as classes became a duo with Zunaira Anaïsa, fusing salsa with Urban Contemporary.

Performing is the profession; teaching stays his first love. Today he teaches from his own studio, At The Core, in Alphen aan den Rijn, giving back to a younger generation that reminds him of where he started. In his own words: “There is nothing more humbling.”