Jimmy Allan

Jimmy Allan is a street and hip hop trained dancer who has been dancing professionally since the age of 10. He was born in Winchester and started training in various street styles around the south coast, excelling in his training and having fun with dance. He joined Boy Blue in 2015 and has been there ever since. This gave him the opportunity to take the next step in dance and further it as a career, and this is where he really found his love for dance. Over the past five years he has been performing at events such as Breaking Convention, and at festivals, arena shows and tours. He also studied dance at college and has two A-levels in dance performance and choreography. His credits include: Ella Henderson, Nathan Dawe, Junior Andre, Misha Gabriel, Reiley, Parris Goebel, Codie Wiggins and Kenrick Sandy.

Photo by Tristram Kenton.

Kyron Jake Anthony

Kyron Jake Anthony is a professional dancer who has been dancing since the age of seven. He grew up in Oxford, competing with the International Dance Organization to win world and European titles. Since graduating from the University of East London, he has gone on to perform with the likes of Anne-Marie on The Greatest Dancer, support headline artist Stormzy at Reading and Leeds Festival, and perform internationally in Lithuania and at Athens X SNF Nostos festival. He has also been a part of R.E.B.E.L, a Sky Arts film with Boy Blue, and two Hip Hop Theatre productions: Born to Protest, which toured around the UK with Just Us Dance Theatre, and Traplord, an Olivier Award-winning production directed by Ivan Michael Blackstock.

Emily Bajic

Emily Bajic is a graduate of Shockout Arts with an Accelerated BA Hons degree in Professional and Commercial Dance. Her training includes The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training in Dance, 0161 Studios and Shockout Arts. Her TV and campaign credits include: Get Your Future Moving campaign for the University of Salford on E4; the TV advert for Mo Salah x Riyadh Winter Wonderland, Saudi Arabia; Red Bull Formula One racing TV commercial; and modelling for a Move Dancewear / Bloch campaign. Her dance credits include: Unsung Heroes, the curtain raiser to Some Like It Hip Hop from ZooNation – The Kate Prince Company and Mayflower Theatre; I M PACT: Dance Lab at The Lowry; Slow It Down for Dancers Delight Shockout, with choreography by Yasmin Harcourt; MOVE IT 2023 main stage, choreographed by Ainsley Hall Ricketts; Afrobeats Dance Championship with Artillery; Cap St George Hotel and Resort performance, Cyprus.

Emily Dodd

Emily Dodd is a Manchester based artist originally from Northampton, whose early training consisted of tap, modern and ballet. This year she completed her BA Hons from Shockout Arts, where she studied a variety of styles including contemporary, locking, popping and hip hop. She’s also had the opportunity to train with companies such as Definitives, Company Jinks and Fly Company International.

Photo by Narita Savoor.

Holly Dunsmore

Holly Dunsmore is a professional dancer, originally from Scotland, now based in Manchester. Holly recently choreographed a feature piece in Parris Goebel’s Royal Family tour and participated as a dancer for Factory International and Boy Blue’s research and development project for Free Your Mind. She has previously danced for the Commonwealth Games, Strictly Kids and The Prince’s Trust. In Manchester, she holds a lecturer position at the Institute for Contemporary Theatre and works with 0161 Studios as part of the in-house staff, holding open classes.

Holly graduated from West College Scotland in 2019 with a Higher National Diploma in Dance and Performing Arts before moving to Manchester to obtain a first class degree in Professional and Commercial Dance from Shockout Arts in 2022.

Annie Joy Edwards

Annie Joy Edwards is a dance artist from Brighton who works in hip hop and contemporary dance, and has been performing and creating work for a number of years. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance School, she has toured internationally with various companies as well as her own creations. Annie’s most recent projects include dancer and rehearsal director for Sadler’s Wells Young Associate Olive Hardy over two years, Last Shelter (Candoco Dance Company), Like Mercury (Houston Dance Collective), Orfeo (Garsington Opera) and Message In A Bottle(ZooNation – The Kate Prince Company). Other credits include: Scottish Ballet, Nowness, Resolution festival, NYDC, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Prime Video) and Random Acts on Channel 4. She is also a co-founding member of Anhelo Collective, and training in house dance with Indahouse London. Alongside performing, teaching and developing work, she explores disability within dance and advocates for disability access in the arts.

Anmol Kaur

Anmol Kaur (she/her), brought up in South East London, is a South Asian movement artist specialising in street and contemporary dance forms, with skills in combat. She started her journey aged 14 years with award-winning dance companies ZooNation and Boy Blue, and went on to graduate from London Contemporary Dance School with first class honours. Anmol has performed in theatre productions including Boy Blue’s Blak Whyte Gray at HOME and James Cousins Company’s We Are As Gods. She has worked with music artists such as Little Simz, Anne-Marie, Alexandra Burke, Little Mix, Jonas Brothers and more. Other televised performances include Strictly Come Dancing, the Brit Awards, Michael McIntyre, The Jonathan Ross Show, and Nike. Anmol teaches and creates dance work with young movement artists and continues to express the artistry of street and contemporary styles, influenced by boxing, while exploring the structure of hip hop through multiple lenses.

Photo by Lorena Sturlese @Sturlese