What is Rain Crew?

 

Founded in 2009, Rain Crew is a dance crew and arts organisation with a focus on bringing people together through music, culture and dance. Our purpose is to help people to proactively celebrate and share their authentic selves through dance and we do this through creative leadership and by using hip-hop as a vehicle for social change to enable people centred community building with a focus on equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonisation and anti-racism.

 

Rain Crew’s artists specialise in Breaking, Hip-hop, House and Krump performing at both a hyperlocal and International level. Rain Crew is uniquely positioned as asset-based community developers (ABCD) deeply connected to the UK dance scene with roots in Hip-hop culture as a battle crew; while also operating as producers of creative work, delivering events and theatrical performances, striving for artistic excellence.

 

Rain Crew delivers classes, workshops, performances, events, projects and competitions as well as research, artist development programmes and fundraising drives for international disasters. The crew focuses on nurturing and developing creatives providing mentors and a support network for the dance scene, bridging the gap between community organisations and those who are seldom heard. 

 

Rain Crew has a history of challenging the norm of hip-hop as an artform by designing and delivering innovative and quality dance and arts projects, with a dedication to developing strong leaders, creating opportunities and making art accessible to everyone.

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What has Rain Crew done?

Globally we have worked with organisations such as GAP, Maxi Nutrition, ITV, Adidas, ASOS, Argos, Orange, EE, RedBull, Relentless, Brit Awards, Nike, The Olympics, Breaking Convention & the Oliver award winning show ‘The Pied Piper as well as performing on many international stages including Paradiso, Excel and London 02 Arena. We hold regular classes and events for dancers of all ages as our way of sharing our knowledge and elevating the art-form and our community internationally.  In addition to supporting our own community, we continually work with teams outside the UK to support those in need including raising funds for victims of disaster in Syria, Palestine, and The Philippines. Our reputation is that of a dance group and family that stands for something more.

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We believe dance has the power to shift social consciousness. We pro-actively leverage our platform to champion women in Hiphop, fight against racial injustice in the arts industry, implement guidelines and structures to tackle harassment and misconduct in dance and advocate for making the arts accessible and inclusive. 

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More information on our work can be found here.

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