Editing Kaycee Rice (section)

===The Story of “Werk” – The Competition - JoJo Appeared===
One day Kaycee’s mom asked Tricia if she minded to choreograph a hip-hop solo for Kaycee’s next competition season. But this was considered unwise and cocky these days. Many judges had their objections and pre-conceptions against the sometimes vulgar lyrics with these lewd, unsmooth movements and considered it inappropriate for kids. Not a good chance for winning.

But Tricia choreographed “Werk”, as her first choreographed solo ever, including adults. She was more like a production choreographer for about 120 people. So Tricia first refused, but Laura, Kaycee's mom, reminded her that she has never done a hip-hop solo. She should just see what happens. Tricia recalled about "Werk" in 2024 this way:
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"So we got her in my studio, me and my assistent and we were like, ''Who is this kid?'' I remember the first step is out the gate, already controversial for like a 10-year-old  at the time, now It's like so normal, but is the style of dance from Miami that's called riding out and layman's turn, it's like booty popping and so she was ten. So out the gate, it was the first step that happend and it went on a few seconds over and over with different hands. And I think that caught the intention of everybody, that like ''OMG she is a child, she is only ten, doing this style of dance and she doing it better like anybody else like ohh my gosh like wooo .. what is this?'' People were just obsessed with this video. Katy Perry was so obsessed with it. And she tweeted this video and it just blew up." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7YdlRqFYdg&t=2431s Tricia Miranda "Going Off" | Tricia Miranda E009]. 
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She worked on "Werk" with her assistent, an ambitious young dancer who asked Tricia shortly before to watch her on work and learning how she choreographs - [[JoJo Gomez]], [https://youtu.be/CnGQ-QkEUx0 JoJo's story how they met]. So here we are. Three generations of Dance Queens - a generation in the dance world has about 7-10 years distance - changing the dance industry for ever, by influencing each other, working with another for many years and by choreographing and rehearsing an innocent kid hip-hop competition routine ... like Oppenheimer on the atomic bomb. 

The rest became history. So she was standing on stage in her green top, white jacket, booty and won the NexStar national competition for top soloists with her very first hip-hop solo with a lot of fierce and intensive movements. Maybe it was the very first hip-hop solo ever won a national open competition.

It was very special moment for Tricia and Kaycee. First time with a hip-hop solo; she killed it. First time choreographed a hip-hop solo ever and she won the nationals. These were moments when Tricia and Kaycee formed a bound beyond mentor-student relationship, despite their huge age difference and today they are spending often some free-time together, joking around, giving each other some sarcastic side-kicks and keep it beyond business and training. Working with Kaycee and later [[Gabe De Guzman]] changed completely Tricia’s attitude about kids and she became a teacher and mentor for many very young dance talents. Tricia got later known as "The Kid Choreographer". She did until 2025 over 100 commercials with kids and Missy Elliott called her directly and exclusively for the Super Bowl by, so quote Tricia, "Hey. You have the best kids. You are the only one I trust hiring kids for me for the Super Bowl." Tricia and Missy became by their collaboration later friends. - Fun Fact: JLo dated for five years Tricia's ex-boyfriend [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8BYfKkbFgg Beau Casper Smart]. Tricia & Casper spltted four years before.<ref>[https://youtu.be/D7YdlRqFYdg?t=1742 Tricia Miranda "Going Off" | Tricia Miranda E009]</ref>

So, Kaycee's dad Brat put the taped video of Kaycee’s dance just for fun on YouTube, another channel DancingWithYT pick it up and they had no clue, what was coming down from the pike later …