Robbie Blue’s choreography profession didn’t want a warm-up. His first skilled gig—creating Doechii’s Fosse/hip-hop mashup efficiency for the 2025 Grammy Awards—earned him each a legion of followers and an Emmy nomination. Later that month, Tate McRae launched her “Revolving door” music video, that includes his viral choreography. He’s since labored with artists like FKA twigs, Tinashe, and Maroon 5, bringing his aggressively horny but wildly quirky method to movies, excursions, and late-night TV appearances.
Function: Choreographer
Age: 25
Hometown: Lebanon, Ohio
Coaching: Z Firm Arts in Monroe, Ohio
Accolades: 2025 Emmy nomination, 2024 World Choreography Award winner
A pandemic passion: Though Blue created dances at his studio as a child (and cherished it), he didn’t begin choreographing critically till the pandemic, when gigs as a industrial dancer dried up. “I simply needed to bounce, so I began doing my very own stuff,” he says. Ultimately he started taking pictures idea movies. “I’d go into $5,000 in debt to place collectively a complete manufacturing with dancers, a videographer, taking pictures on location,” he says. The gamble paid off: His movies grabbed consideration on social media, main music artists adopted him, then at some point Doechii slid into his DMs to ask if he’d to choreograph her Grammy efficiency.
Theater child: Earlier than discovering dance at age 12, Blue grew up doing theater. By bringing a Broadway vibe to Doechii’s Grammy efficiency, he says, “I used to be very a lot in my aspect.”
What his mentor is saying: Choreographer Brian Friedman started mentoring Blue as a younger teen dancer, blown away by his creativity and confidence. Blue ultimately turned an assistant at Radix Dance Conference, in addition to considered one of Friedman’s assistants for varied initiatives. “I’m so happy with how he continues to evolve and never comply with tendencies, however create tendencies,” Friedman says. “He didn’t have to suit into what the business was doing at that second. He made the business fall in love with him.”
Stay vs. filmed: Blue loves the permanence of video and the power to shoot till a chunk appears good. However engaged on reside performances has stunned him. “I simply did a Doechii tour, and I felt nervous, particularly coming off the Grammys—was that only a one-hit surprise?” he admits. “I ended up having a lot enjoyable. I naturally construct for the digicam in my head, so reside efficiency forces me to work from a brand new perspective.”
His different craft: In his spare time, Blue restores classic furnishings. “Taking a chunk and sanding it, restaining it, stripping it’s such a zen factor for me to do,” he says. His newest initiatives have been a door and a mantel.
Present targets: Fairly than using on his present success, Blue desires to broaden his palette, studying types like voguing, bone-breaking, popping, and locking. “I by no means thought I’d be choreographing for a rapper,” he says. “Having the ability to reside in that swag of it has actually made me wish to be taught extra in regards to the foundations of hip hop.”