Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE
Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Boy Blue, an Artistic
Associate of the Barbican, London, and a renowned choreographer and performer.
Choreographer / Co-Artistic Director of Boy Blue.
Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Boy Blue, an Artistic Associate of the Barbican, London, and a renowned choreographer and performer.
Sandy’s theatre credits are extensive; recent works include co-creating Free Your Mind (2023) for the opening of Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International in Manchester with fellow artists Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, Danny Boyle, Es Devlin and Sabrina Mahfouz; dance theatre shows REDD (2019), the film R.E.B.E.L (2018), Blak Whyte Gray (2017), The Five & the Prophecy of Prana (2013), A Night With Boy Blue (2022, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2013), Touch (2011), Legacy (2011) and Pied Piper: A Hip-Hop Dance Revolution (2006).
Outside of Boy Blue, Sandy has worked with Talawa on Guys and Dolls (2017), Regent’s Park Theatre on Once on this Island (2023) and Boy Blue will be the Guest Artistic Directors of the National Youth Dance Company for 2024/25.
Off of the main stage, Sandy collaborated with director Danny Boyle for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, winning the Evening Standard’s Beyond Theatre award, and worked with Boyle again in 2017 to film Boy Blue’s Emancipation of Expressionism, a set work on the GCSE Dance syllabus. On screen work includes choreography for The BAFTA Awards, All Stars, Holby City, Gangster Granny and T2 Trainspotting, plus appearances on Street Dance 3D, Alisha Dixon’s Streetdance Stars, Strictly Come Dancing and the BBC’s So You Think You Can Dance.
Sandy has also created choreography for artists FKA twigs, Rita Ora, Stooshe, Anne Marie, Lamar, Plan B and brands Nike, adidas and ASOS and has danced for Sophie Ellis-Bextor, George Michael, Mystic, The Sugababes, Lady Dynamite, The Black Eyed Peas, SAULT, Leona Lewis, Beverly Knight, Cassius Henry, Lady’s First and All Saints.
Sandy was awarded an MBE for services to dance and the community in 2017, an Honorary Fellowship (HonFGS) from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018 and a Companionship from LIPA in 2019. In 2020, he won awards as Best Choreographer and for Best Performance in a Dance Theatre Production at the Black British Theatre Awards for his work on REDD.