For Black Boys…

For Black Boys…

'I found a king in me and now I love you
I found a king in you and now I love me'★ ★ ★ ★ ★‘a powerful and deeply moving meditation on Black masculinity and Black life in Britain’The Guardian Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires...

Choreographer and Movement Director
Garrick Theatre, West End
Nimax Theatres
2024
Blue Mist

Blue Mist

'Shisha lounges are an essential part of the Muslim experience bruv, like the Fillet o Fish'Chunkyz Shisha Lounge is a home away from home for Jihad, Rashid and Asif, a space where community whispers are heard, jokes are told and new hustles are born. But its future...

Movement Director
The Royal Court
2023
Feel

Feel

A personal project exploring how men struggle with emotional vulnerability. London-based director Kai Blamey Nguyen approaches the subject of men's mental health with a contemplative dance film choreographed by movement director Mikey Boats. Together, they weave a...

Dancer
Dir. Kai Blamey Nguyen
2022
Traplord Black Meme / Channel 4

Traplord Black Meme / Channel 4

Traplord Black Meme explores the Black mental health experience. A moving portrait reflecting on escapism and entrapment via archetypal symbolism and street culture.Client: Channel 4 Director: Ivan Michael Blackstock Producers: Dark Pictures London, ALTRUVIOLET...

Dancer
Channel 4
Ch. Ivan Michael Blackstock
2021
Here / Not Here

Here / Not Here

HERE/NOT HERE, combines elements of dance, especially Krump and hip hop, with football, BSL and Visual Vernacular, looking at how movement is language. The setting is a run-down space that three different gangs, footballers, Krumpers and VV-ers all think of as their...

Actor
Artemis films
Dir. Bim Ajadi
2020
Krump Macbeth

Krump Macbeth

A Krump Dance Interpretation of Shakespeare's Classic MacbethDirector: Theophilus O. Bailey

Choreographer
Laban Theatre
2018