“Myself and a friend of mine were trying to figure out ways to do poetry and were trying to find a name to promote our poetry,” Kulture says. “People started seeing me and calling me Verb and that’s how I got branded as an artist.”
Kulture wanted to avoid halfway-interested crowds with no intention of participating and created a space filled with good energy, social interaction and a flexible structure of performance. It was then that she came up with BeatStreet to bring some of that Chicago arts flair to Dallas.
“Being able to bring that with dance, poetry, there’s rhythm,” Kulture says. “I wanted the b-boys, the breakdancers, drummers and everybody in the conversation happening. Part of the reason I do socially interactive events is that I believe that everybody should be part of the moment and create that moment together.”