The dancers of Boy Blue, a London hip-hop dance company, move with extraordinary precision. When they hit a beat, they hit it as one. Between beats, they can seem to speed up or skip ahead, as if someone were dragging a video scroll bar. The effect is digital-age in appearance, but it’s the result of an age-old practice: the painstaking, detail-obsessed pursuit of perfect synchronization, body with body, and dance with music.
That tight relationship between sound and motion can be traced to the tight relationship between the company’s directors: choreographer Kenrick Sandy (also known as H20) and DJ and electronic composer Michael Asante (who goes by Mikey J). They met when they were teenagers, and they weren’t much older than that when they founded Boy Blue at an East London youth center. Since that day, in 2001, they have built it into one of the most influential companies in British hip-hop dance-theater.
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