IRC ONE - IRC

From the street to the theatre

Hip-hop oriented dance styles did not originate in beautifully decorated ballrooms or on carefully scrubbed ballet floors. They originate from spontaneous street parties, on dance floors in the middle of the night and during training sessions on the square behind the local shopping centre. This is the classroom, studio and stage all in one.

More than twenty years ago, the less than picturesque shopping center City Plaza in Nieuwegein was the birthplace of the Illusionary Rockaz Crew (IRC). From the first hip-hop pioneers of the 1980s, a handful of young dancers learned the building blocks of a new dance language there.

In the decades that followed, they danced all over the world, with large companies and in intimate sessions. The members grew up, the crew became a company and hip-hop grew from a subculture to a global art form.

'IRC ONE' is an energetic and compelling performance by the core members of IRC; a story about brotherhood, expression and individuality; a hymn to the culture that brought them together.