Jackie Guy

Carlton Harold "Jackie" Guy CD MBE is a Jamaican dancer, choreographer and teacher who has been based in the United Kingdom since the mid-1980s.

Career Guy grew up in the Harbour View area of Kingston and took up dancing as a boy, inspired by the film West Side Story. With his friends, he would watch Alma Mock Yen's dance group and was invited to join in 1964.

After visiting England in 1985 and touring Britain with the NDTC in 1986, he relocated there in 1987 and has continued to teach in London, using his own "JaGuy Technique". With Kokuma he won Black Dance Awards for Best Production and Best Choreography and the Prudential Award for Excellence, Innovation and Accessibility. He also taught in Zimbabwe as part of a British Council initiative. As a tribute to the recently deceased Bennett-Coverley he choreographed Only Fi Yuh in 2007 for the Movements Dance Company of Jamaica as part of the company's silver jubilee concert season.

In October 2011, Guy received a Lifetime Award from the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD).

Guy was awarded the MBE in November 2012 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to dance education in the United Kingdom.

In 2015 it was announced that Guy would be awarded the Order of Distinction, Commander Class (CD) by the Jamaican government later that year.