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Wanna see an absurd show packed with breakdance, comedy, stunts and straight-up spectacle?
After their hit show CONTROLE (winner of the 2023 Gouden Krekel), breakdance crew 155 is back with JOHNNY.
Five stuntmen — with balls of steel (and possibly a few loose screws) — are waiting for their big break in an action movie. But between the backflips, wipeouts and bursts of laughter, some real questions hit: How many punches do you need to take to prove you’re not a pussy? How do you stay true to yourself when you're always stuck in someone else’s shadow? And honestly — what’s the point of a perfectly executed backflip if your ex just ghosted you?
Think: Jackie Chan meets Buster Keaton meets emotional damage.
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June through August 2023 & September through December 2022 CONTROLE was in Dutch theaters & international festivals, a co-production with Maas theater & dance.
Rotten knees, empty pockets, fuzzy friends, getting older, compelling algorithms. Do we try to take back control or do we let it slip away?
The 155 boys (onefivefive), a breakdance collective of friends who grew up together, have all reached their 30s and are faced with a decision: getting a grip on life or remain rolling stones?
While in their performance MOTORS they still had a motor outside there front door with which they could flee from annoying obligations, problems and the system, in CONTROLE they deal with the feeling of not being 'in control' on a moving floor. They answer the questions: who do you want to be and how do you want to be in the world? Continue dancing with rotten knees to escape algorithms and responsibilities?
The show CONTROLE offers an absolutely insane medley of breakdance, physical comedy, live music, film and bizarre humor.
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STUK is a 55-minute play featuring four boys who feel like breaking things in a world that is in pieces.
2020-2021 | Theaters & festivals
The boys at 155 want to be together, do things together and be a group again, but they experience no control over the situation. It is as if the floor is being pulled out from under them every time. As if someone else is controlling them with ropes and as if people would rather look at a screen than at them. What's the value of a real experience anymore if you can't share it live? How close do you have to be to someone before it really feels different from a screen? The guys go on until it's broken for sure. STUK is about the authenticity of the experience and the intensity with which you live it.
STUK is a mix of breakdance, physical comedy, live music, video and bizarre humor as you've come to expect from 155.
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After two major shows and several small performances, it is now time for the next step.... LIJF, a breakdance concert.
2017-2019
Sticky floors. Sweaty bodies. Way too loud music, allowing you to communicate only with body language. Why do we like being in a club at night? That's what LIJF’s about. Created as a co-production with Dox and Anne Fay, in which boundaries blur between club night, pop concert and dance performance.
Breakdance collective 155 (onefivefive) played the roof off at Lowlands, Sziget, Mundial and in the Melkweg. This time the men climb the stage together with the unpolished gospel-soul singer Cookachoo. So: breakdance and live music. But also voguing, video art and catchy beats from the nineties.
Performers and audience intermingle. Dancers and musicians interchange roles. The setting: a festival atmosphere where drinking, cheering and crowd surfing are allowed. With their energetic show, 155 builds a party in no time, but one with substance.
February - May 2024 is gonna be hella childish. The show STUNTKONT (6+) is a co-production with Maas theater & dance.
While the boys of 155 (one-five-five) can barely tie their own shoelaces, everyone around them is having children. And then the pressure to grow up suddenly becomes very great. You can't keep laughing at poop and pee jokes, breaking things just like that, hanging around aimlessly and doing nothing (right?). Houses have to be bought, taxes have to be paid and you have to study terms such as 'mortgage interest deduction' and 'own income standard'. Kneecaps break, hair falls out and wrists snap.
Time for 155 to make something for an audience that can still laugh at their humor, before it's too late. The boys are so infantile that even 6-year-olds are like, 'jeez, they're really childish'. In a hysterical show, they resist growing up and flout all adult rules.
Photo: Neeltje de Vries ©
Summer 2022 (including Skatecafe, Lowlands, Parade, Theaterfestival Boulevard and Street Festival Friesland) is all about Festival and pop show AL†O, an ode to the 2000s, along with Magic Tom & Yuri.
A bunch of crappy alto's made a (break) dance and comedy homage to the subcultures of the early 2000s. Limp Bizkit, backflips, energy and blunts. But now it's 20 years later, you've lost your green locks and are filling out spreadsheets like a dumbass. You want so badly to hang out at the park for all of your free periods again, but all your friends have to work until 6 and then go pick up the kids from school.
155 and Magic Tom & Yuri bring you back to the nostalgic heyday of pop-punk, emo and contemporary metal with AL†O. That time when the coolest on the school playground was the one with the widest pants. The time when you experienced everything for the first time: your first time french kissing, your first time smoking and your first time having responsibilities.
AL†O is about the yearning to be different. We are alternative people, but we’re alt all together, otherwise it's scary. You wanted to be different, but when is it different enough?
Fuck the system, come see AL†O and keep rollin' baby.
Photo: Eva Beeftink ©
MOTORS is part III of our triptych "Crying into your helmet," all from our preliminary process LEER [part II], TRIP [part I] and everything else we stand for comes together in this. MOTORS is the finale of "Crying in your Helmet.
2018-2019 | Theaters & festivals
But will this be a theater performance, a dance show or something with motorcycles on stage? Or will it be a group of friends who always do everything together, and secretly also have their own identity? DUDE WHO CARES, because if you just accelerate hard enough, no one will hear you crying into your helmet.
In their latest production LIJF the men dealt with fan-ship taking absurd proportions and the speed with which hype is created. With this, they performed at the Parade, Lowlands, in De Melkweg and Tivoli, played more than 40 shows and partied with their audience late into the night. But what if you don't feel like it for a while, and there's a motorcycle in front of the door which you can get on at any time and ride away to something new? Away from pesky obligations, problems and the system.
155 creates performances from their relentless fascination with the world in which they (and we) live and move now. In Motors the men combine two great loves, motorcycles and dance. They have one foot in youth culture and the other in the contemporary art circuit. In Motors, the men of 155 return to basics. They are approaching the magical mark of 30, but aren't they afraid to face themselves? Beneath those uncombed beards lie sensitive individuals.
Photo: Eva Beeftink ©
The all-new performance 'EPISCH: The best yet' by those guys from 155. They made a resounding debut in the theater world as iLL Skill Squad with their performance called 155. At Lowlands they played the roof off the packed tent 'Juliet', they were the revelation at the prestigious Jonge Harten Festival and they were even invited to play at the Dutch Dance Days. To top it off, 155 was awarded the first André Gingras Award.
Now they are 155 (onefivefive), kicking it up a notch and growing up, while at the same time remaining delightfully childish. In their new performance EPISCH - again in collaboration with DOX - the boys of dance collective 155 (onefivefive) try to relate to their epic surroundings while at the same time no longer hiding behind the group but showing their vulnerabilities. They do this with somersaults, visuals and tight tough dance on the one hand, and vulnerable breakdance on the other. They go further than far, wanting bigger than big, more, next level, sicker.... ‘Episch’, in other words.
Everyone dances in front of the mirror or sings in the shower from time to time. But why doesn't anyone ever do it in public? Trained dancers can leave a deep impression on their audience. When a "non-dancer" is completely absorbed in music, however, something moving emerges; authenticity.
Ultranormaal is a performance created i.c.w. DOX about how we can really dance and move when we don't have to meet anyone's expectations. Dance like nobody's watching…
155, short for iLL Skill Squad, is the number each of the dancers has tattooed on their bodies. It connects the boys at a time when you unfriend someone with 1 click, your presence is always set to "maybe," failure is not an option and the question "how are you?" is invariably answered with "busy, busy, busy. In 155 you see the boys' search for their artistic identity. The most obvious pigeonholes into which you might place them pass in review, such as a boy-band, as well as the least, such as that of angry drag-queens (or at least, an attempt at one!). Where it all comes together is what the gentlemen prefer to identify themselves with: suited up and with hats but, above all, utterly idiosyncratic.
155 has been performed more than 80 times in Dutch and Belgian theaters, at festivals and events.
