About us
155 (onefivefive) is a multimedia breakdance collective made off friends who grew up together,sharing a passion for dance, music, film, video(games), bizarre humor and art. Multimedia and interdisciplinary is our core business, as just one of us is graduated from a dance company. Other members were educated in digital video design, (digital) animation, editing, film design or sounddesign, but never stopped dancing.
We used to do everything ourselves; from marketing to production, from catering and making the set design of our performances to the costume design. Nowadays we have learned to delegate a bit more. By sticking together and creating new work we have grown (up) into a group conceiving shows, films and acts by combining dance, video, music and comedy in unique ways.
Starting from bboying 155 tries to make work in- and about- ‘our’ world. Fusion is not the goal, but simply the result of the different styles and worlds we are finding ourselves to be in. ‘Form is not the goal, but the result of our work’. We make work about the ‘realness’ of an experience and the intensity with which you feel it. By playing with known and unknown appearances and by mixing these, we are playing -by means of form- with substance and are constantly putting the audience on the wrong track. The past couple of years 155 has developed into a known brand that not only makes danceperformances, but also produces (short) films displayed around Europe. Our targeted audience is between 16-35 years old, who are loving the products 155 makes. In 2014 we won the André Gingras Award, in 2018 the price for Young Audiences awarded by the Dutch Dance Days, in 2019 our performance MOTORS was presented by a Silver Cricket; the award of one of the best youth productions in the Netherlands and we won several film awards for our short films LEER (LEATHER) ,GAT (HOLE) and STOMPEN all over the world. The cherry on top came in 2020, when 155 was rewarded with structural funding from the Dutch Perfomance Fund and the City of Utrecht, for us a way to develop a more long term strategy. Viral videos, performances ranging in location from the Freetown Music Festival in Sierra Leone, Sziget Festival in Budapest, the Lunga Festival in Iceland, performances in Indonesia to the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. 155 will go - and make - whatever we, as a group of young creatives, want to see.
