Billie is the brains and organiser behind the dance troupe The Hip Op-eration Crew which is made up of a group of senior Waiheke Island residents with the average age of 81 (including five over 90 years of age and some with dementia, visual or hearing impairments; and others who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids). Billie taught herself how to dance through YouTube and initially established the world’s oldest flash mob in 2012 which performed in Auckland’s CBD and suburbs for a year, before evolving the group into a hip hop dance troupe in 2013 with the goal to perform at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas in just eight months time. They achieved their goal and performed at the World Championships in August 2013.

2014 was a stellar year for Billie and the Hip Op-eration Crew, with their feature documentary winning awards all over the globe and the dance crew travelling to Taiwan to perform to an audience of 17,000. In 2015 Billie and her dance group made it into the Guiness Book of World Records as the oldest dance troupe on the planet. They still hold this title. A smaller group went on to perform in Japan in 2016, the same year Billie was awarded a Queen’s Honour for her charity work changing the perception of ageing.