Billy and Bobby McClain are identical twins who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 70s. Their dance career started on a very small stage at the age of 6, performing for family members at cookouts. Two years later they had their first real show at the Cyclorama in the South End. Wearing matching silk, brown sweat suits they finished their first contest with a win, judged by none other than the legend Kurtis Blow.

By age 10 they were asked to join Boston’s first professional street dance crew, The Funk Affects. During this time they opened up for some of the biggest names in hip-hop history; Run DMC, LL Cool J, KRS One, and Afrika Bambaataa, to name a few.

After 7 years with the crew, Billy and Bobby branched off to become The Wondertwins. The Wondertwins have had many notable accomplishments including Bobby Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel” US/UK tour, Apollonia’s (Purple Rain) UK tour. They were the opening act for EPMD, Public Enemy, and Queen Latifah.

In the early 1990s, they won “Amateur Night/Showtime at the Apollo (Theater)” six times. More recent accomplishments include: winning The Pioneers of Dance Award and being selected for The Boston Globe Magazine’s “25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2011.”

Over the years The Wondertwins have created a distinctive style all their own, with the technical facility of hip-hop, the sophistication of the glory days of the Cotton Club, the flash of Rat-Pack era Las Vegas, and elements of vaudeville, robot, tap, and mime.

Former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre executive director Judith Jamison has praised The Wondertwins as “absolutely beautiful, strong, powerful, and electric … made for Broadway” and Maurice Hines noted that the identical twins “dance in the same spirit as the great brothers of dance before them.”