NYDC x Boy Blue

18 Apr 2025

  • Tickets
    £12.50
  • Venue
    Quarry
  • Running time
    60 mins

For the last decade, NYDC, run by Sadler's Wells, has sought out the most talented young dancers in England to create, perform and tour a new work every year with a Guest Artistic Director.

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 of NYDC. 

The dancers are all aged between 16 – 24 and work with NYDC for 10 months gaining valuable experience, honing their skills and working with top notch professionals. Since its inception 336 dancers have passed through the company, working with such renowned dance artists as including Oona Doherty, Wayne McGregor, Alesandra Seutin, Russell Maliphant and Botis Seva. 

 

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Fri 18 Apr
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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).

Creatives

Boy Blue: Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy

Guest Artistic Director 2024-25

Boy Blue: Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante

Guest Artistic Director 2024-25

Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante

Composer

Ryan Dawson Laight

Costume Designer

Adam Carrée

Lighting Designer

Lara Rose McCabe

Rehearsal Director & Assistant to the Choreographer

Nathaniel Impraim-Jones

Rehearsal Director & Assistant to the Choreographer

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  • MAJOR FUNDERS

    Arts Council
  • Leeds City Council
  • LTB Foundation
  • Founded by UK government
  • Suppoprted by west Yorkshire
  • Principal Partner

    Caddick Group
  • Principal Access Partner

    Irwin Mitchell