NYDC X BOY BLUE PREMIERE LEEDS PLAYHOUSE

For 2025, Olivier Award-winning hip hop dance theatre company Boy Blue has been appointed as Guest Artistic Director and teams up with NYDC’s young people to create a brand-new show: Gravity

Don’t miss this fusion of Boy Blue ‘s radical vision and the super talents of the young dancers- it’s all about forces and connections!  
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Core Team
‍Guest Artistic Directors 2024-25 Boy Blue: Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy & Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante
Composer: Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante
Costume Design: Ryan Dawson Laight
Lighting Design: Adam Carrée
Rehearsal Directors & Assistants to the choreographer: Lara Rose McCabe & Nathaniel Impraim-Jones

Company Dancers 2024-25
‍Yunus Ayhan (Bexhill-on-Sea), Sara Belal (Leeds), Kingsley Campbell-Golding (London), Orson Crane (Blackpool), Luke Curran (Lewes), Dylan Dennis (Blackpool), Dexter Duffy (Chorley), Mimi Etete-Edge (Brighton), Sheldon Golding (Enfield), Kasra Hastings (Lewes), Florence Hodgson (London), India Hurley (Brighton), Lucca Masters (Birmingham), Zak Michael Smith (Brighton), Thea Petrie (London), Blake Rainey (Blackpool), Dayang Safiya Isabella Abang Suhaili (London), Sonia Sansford (Colchester), Iona Statham (Falmouth), Nya Stewart (Manchester), Ada Trotman (Truro), Faye-Elise Walmsey (Newcastle), Hali Warsame (London), Ella Watson (Mirfield), Marshall Wilson (Macclesfield), James Airey (Chesterfield), Archie Bilsland (Ashford), Monét Brooks (London), Megan Chaytor Wilson (Durham), Francis Henry (Leeds), Luke James (Birmingham), Jacob Lincoln (Ipswich), and Rowan Williams (Frome)

Tour Dates 2025
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Friday 18 April - Leeds Playhouse Premiere performance 7pm Get your tickets here


Sunday 29 June - AMATA Arts Centre, Falmouth University7.30pm Tickets on sale soon

Saturday 05 July - Comedy Carpet, Blackpool (part of Capital of Dance Festival) Free outdoor performance
Saturday 12 July - DanceEast, Ipswich7.30pm Get your tickets here
Saturday 19 July - Sadler’s Wells (Angel), London7.30pm Get your tickets here

Wednesday 23 July - The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Tickets on sale soon

Friday 25 July - Sadler’s Wells East, London7.30pm (This performance will form part of U.Dance Festival)

Sunday 28 September - Berliner Festspiele Theatre, Berlin (This performance will form part of Tanztreffen der Jugend festival)