Ageing With Attitude: The Hip-Operation Crew move to the beat at 80 and beyond

The Hip-Operation Crew, with an average age of 81, prove that age is no barrier to reaching the world championships, says Margaret Jennings.

THEY are the oldest hip-hop dance group in the world — appropriately called The Hip-Operation Crew — with 22 members, average age 81.

And although they have numerous medical issues, that didn’t stop them from travelling thousands of miles from their home-base at Waiheke, a little island off the east coast of New Zealand, to perform at the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas.