About us
155 (onefivefive) is a multimedia breakdance collective made of friends who grew up together, sharing a love for dance, music, film, video games, bizarre humor and art. Multimedia and interdisciplinarity have always been our core, partly because only one of us actually graduated from a dance academy. The others studied digital video design, animation, editing, film design or sound design — and never stopped dancing.
We used to do everything ourselves: marketing, production, catering, set design, costumes. Over time we learned to delegate a little. By sticking together and keeping on making new work, we’ve grown into a group that creates shows, films and performances by combining dance, video, music and comedy in our own way.
Starting from b-boying, 155 makes work in — and about — our world. Fusion isn’t the aim; it’s simply what happens when our different backgrounds collide. Form is never the objective, only the outcome. We make work about the “realness” of an experience and the intensity with which you feel it. By playing with familiar and unfamiliar imagery and mixing them up, we use form to mess with substance — and constantly pull the audience off balance.
In recent years, 155 has become a known name not only for dance performances but also for short films screened across Europe. Our main audience is between 16 and 35, and they’ve embraced what we do. Awards followed: the André Gingras Award (2014), the Dutch Dance Days Young Audiences Award (2018), a Silver Cricket for MOTORS (2019), and multiple international film awards for LEER (LEATHER), GAT (HOLE), STOMPEN (FIST), and WEST. In 2020 we received structural funding from the Dutch Performing Arts Fund and the City of Utrecht, allowing for long-term development.
Our work has taken us to the Freetown Music Festival in Sierra Leone, Sziget in Budapest, the Lunga Festival in Iceland, Indonesia, Lowlands in the Netherlands — and through plenty of viral videos online. 155 goes — and makes — wherever we, as a group of young creatives, want to see.
