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Sean also learned the classics beyond mainstream dancing. Especially Galen Hooks, Tessandra Chavez and Nika Kjun gave him frequently retro approaches. Galen let Sean perform "The West Side Story" like a Broadway veteran,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BMy1Hz9No West Side Story - AMERICA - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/iF3rS26gUXI?t=214 West Side Story - Jet Song - Dance Choreography by Galen Hooks ft Sean Lew, Devin Jamieson]</ref> hard rock like the 80's (which drives the girls in classes crazy by this animal)<ref>[https://youtu.be/YdHSIws67Rc?t=61 Harry Styles - Kiwi - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> and jazz funk.<ref>[https://youtu.be/OsnljDj6wxo?t=131 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> Nika let Sean feel the 70's by "Greace", <ref>[https://youtu.be/8Sb4W9nQ-2s?t=82 GREASE - "You're The One That I Want"]</ref> funk and urban dance<ref>[https://youtu.be/0K0_KtyVZ9Q?t=69 Sia - Move Your Body | Nika Kljun Choreography]</ref>. Or soft rock by Tessandra <ref>[https://youtu.be/qyViCcJtigg?t=320 John Legend - Tonight - Dance Choreography by Tessandra Chavez]</ref> His new partner [[Kaycee Rice]] stated in NBC's World of Dance season two: "He is literally good at everything. He is basically like a dance genius." His strongest suit is hip-hop.<ref>[https://youtu.be/uiIM647B4ZQ?t=314 SONNY - Run Around | Choreography by @NikaKljun]</ref> Sean's fingerprint of dancing can be described as the "Master of 1,001 Figures with Hands and Legs", making waves with his body<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15hKsqp8o8 Yours - SG Lewis / Sean Lew Choreography]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_SjFnXPQU SEAN LEW "RIDE" - CIARA | JOJO GOMEZ CHOREOGRAPHY]</ref> and the most fierce accentuation of dancers of the younger generation. Giving him millions of permutations by texture movements and basics for innovative choreography as well. Due his ballet training he is capable do 8-10 two-feet-leading pirouettes in row and very fast, even with closed arms (extremely difficult), and a backward barrel, a 360° turn jump backwards with hanging arms.

He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B4WfpRsF6fo/ Laura Rice's IG Sean & Kaycee yoga]</ref> - he was frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. Sean on the other hand has an accentuation by texture movements Kaycee cannot match (hardly anyone can)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wdha2ZmwAI Let Go - Dylan Brady l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> The couple is always noticed as outstanding, because both are extremely clean, controlled by a lot of multi-coordinated texture movements, fierce accentuation <ref>[https://youtu.be/ACy9IGCWXd4?t=146 Unravel - Sabrina Claudio feat Kaycee & Sean | The Main Event | Tessandra Chavez Experience]</ref> and high expressive performance.<ref>[https://youtu.be/TmzVBGf6uKk?t=408 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan - Choreography by Jake Kodish ft Sean Lew, Kaycee Rice, Jade Chynoweth]</ref> Their chemistry is considered legendary for their age. Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [[Charlize Glass]], [[JT Church]] and the winner [[Eva Igo]]. A long time their relationship was just superficial. They were once competing against each other. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejQvQ5plWU Their photo showing around] where they stand together as little competion kids was actually an one time intiative by their parents and after that they went separated paths for a very long time. They bombed frequently into each other in classes and at some point Sean was like, 'Ok, I see you too often not knowing your name.' And one day he had asked her, if she minded to join him as a partner for an Institute in his first bigger concept video "Life Experience: Wrong Words" and then they learned each other. - ''[https://youtu.be/MRSeNayfUOU?t=191 "He found the perfect little partner. Didn't he?]"'' asked Jeneffer Lopez Derek Hough at NBC World of Dance 2018 and Derek agreed when Sean & Kaycee entered the stage for their 'The Cut' performance. And the dance world and maybe the TV watchers agreed either, because after the show they got very prominent, especially younger people were [https://youtu.be/gOBKb8qblGU?t=137 standing in line for selfies with them] and many videos where they both get featured, indiviually or as duet ~~went viral~~.

He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B4WfpRsF6fo/ Laura Rice's IG Sean & Kaycee yoga]</ref> - he was frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. Sean on the other hand has an accentuation by texture movements Kaycee cannot match (hardly anyone can)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wdha2ZmwAI Let Go - Dylan Brady l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> The couple is always noticed as outstanding, because both are extremely clean, controlled by a lot of multi-coordinated texture movements, fierce accentuation <ref>[https://youtu.be/ACy9IGCWXd4?t=146 Unravel - Sabrina Claudio feat Kaycee & Sean | The Main Event | Tessandra Chavez Experience]</ref> and high expressive performance.<ref>[https://youtu.be/TmzVBGf6uKk?t=408 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan - Choreography by Jake Kodish ft Sean Lew, Kaycee Rice, Jade Chynoweth]</ref> Their chemistry is considered legendary for their age. Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [[Charlize Glass]], [[JT Church]] and the winner [[Eva Igo]]. A long time their relationship was just superficial. They were once competing against each other. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejQvQ5plWU Their photo showing around] where they stand together as little competion kids was actually an one time intiative by their parents and after that they went separated paths for a very long time. They bombed frequently into each other in classes and at some point Sean was like, 'Ok, I see you too often not knowing your name.' And one day he had asked her, if she minded to join him as a partner for an Institute in his first bigger concept video "Life Experience: Wrong Words" and then they learned each other. - ''[https://youtu.be/MRSeNayfUOU?t=191 "He found the perfect little partner. Didn't he?]"'' asked Jeneffer Lopez Derek Hough at NBC World of Dance 2018 and Derek agreed when Sean & Kaycee entered the stage for their 'The Cut' performance. And the dance world and maybe the TV watchers agreed either, because after the show they got very prominent, especially younger people were [https://youtu.be/gOBKb8qblGU?t=137 standing in line for selfies with them] and many videos where they both get featured went viral; indiviually or as duet.

In 2019, Sean choreographed a music video for mega-star [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Trainor Meghan Trainor] "''AFTER YOU (Directed by Charm La'Donna)"'' on Vevo-YT with just 17 years old and is starring with Kaycee on it as duet. Meghan was actually a secret fan of Sean for many years and they finally met at October 31, 2019. He started in April a crowd funding project for his new short film of dancing cultures worldwide with planned budget $65,000 USD, but the subject changed later and he didn't get raised the target budget. He was nominated for a Arena Award in the category "Rising Star of the year" together with Emma Portner, Logan Edra and the winner [[Bailey Sok]]. He was performing the NBC World of Dance World Final intermezzo show on season three together with [[Kaycee Rice]] and Ian Eastwood while NE-YO was singing on stage. They got the honor to be in line with dance legends like Les Twins, Keone & Mari Madrid, Derek Hough, The Kinjaz, The Lab, Charity Anderson & Andres Peñate<strong> </strong>and Michael Dameski. Finally the ''Step Up: Year of the Dance '' (aka ''Step Up China or Step Up 6) ''movie was released. Sean was assistant choreographer for it along with William "Willdabeast" Adams, Janelle Ginestra-Adams and Jaken Isaiah Preston, featuring Jade Cynoweth and Janelle Ginestra-Adams and Wei Qi and SuperDino are starring. It is currently with about $17,000,000 USD estimated budget Sean's biggest project he participated in. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4060544/ Step Up China]</ref> A convention dance video with Kaycee to the song "False Confidence" by Noah Kahan went viral by 5M+ views within just one month and got Noah's personal attention and the Australian invited them to perfom in LA live on stage with him.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fr7D5BMLk0 False Confidence: Live l Xtra Sean & Kaycee]</ref> When Sean turned 18 he celebrated it in Iceland at Reykjavík with his family and Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B5boFavlUI2/ Sean's IG Iceland]</ref> Before became an adult he already visited many countries in the world. In this year it was at least China, Dominican Republic, Poland, Japan, Iceland and Denmark. Not many people can claim to be a world citizen at his age.

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 Sean also learned the classics beyond mainstream dancing. Especially Galen Hooks, Tessandra Chavez and Nika Kjun gave him frequently retro approaches. Galen let Sean perform "The West Side Story" like a Broadway veteran,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BMy1Hz9No West Side Story - AMERICA - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/iF3rS26gUXI?t=214 West Side Story - Jet Song - Dance Choreography by Galen Hooks ft Sean Lew, Devin Jamieson]</ref> hard rock like the 80's (which drives the girls in classes crazy by this animal)<ref>[https://youtu.be/YdHSIws67Rc?t=61 Harry Styles - Kiwi - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> and jazz funk.<ref>[https://youtu.be/OsnljDj6wxo?t=131 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> Nika let Sean feel the 70's by "Greace", <ref>[https://youtu.be/8Sb4W9nQ-2s?t=82 GREASE - "You're The One That I Want"]</ref> funk and urban dance<ref>[https://youtu.be/0K0_KtyVZ9Q?t=69 Sia - Move Your Body | Nika Kljun Choreography]</ref>. Or soft rock by Tessandra <ref>[https://youtu.be/qyViCcJtigg?t=320 John Legend - Tonight - Dance Choreography by Tessandra Chavez]</ref> His new partner [[Kaycee Rice]] stated in NBC's World of Dance season two: "He is literally good at everything. He is basically like a dance genius." His strongest suit is hip-hop.<ref>[https://youtu.be/uiIM647B4ZQ?t=314 SONNY - Run Around | Choreography by @NikaKljun]</ref> Sean's fingerprint of dancing can be described as the "Master of 1,001 Figures with Hands and Legs", making waves with his body<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15hKsqp8o8 Yours - SG Lewis / Sean Lew Choreography]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_SjFnXPQU SEAN LEW "RIDE" - CIARA | JOJO GOMEZ CHOREOGRAPHY]</ref> and the most fierce accentuation of dancers of the younger generation. Giving him millions of permutations by texture movements and basics for innovative choreography as well. Due his ballet training he is capable do 8-10 two-feet-leading pirouettes in row and very fast, even with closed arms (extremely difficult), and a backward barrel, a 360° turn jump backwards with hanging arms.
-He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B4WfpRsF6fo/ Laura Rice's IG Sean & Kaycee yoga]</ref> - he was frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. Sean on the other hand has an accentuation by texture movements Kaycee cannot match (hardly anyone can)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wdha2ZmwAI Let Go - Dylan Brady l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> The couple is always noticed as outstanding, because both are extremely clean, controlled by a lot of multi-coordinated texture movements, fierce accentuation <ref>[https://youtu.be/ACy9IGCWXd4?t=146 Unravel - Sabrina Claudio feat Kaycee & Sean | The Main Event | Tessandra Chavez Experience]</ref> and high expressive performance.<ref>[https://youtu.be/TmzVBGf6uKk?t=408 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan - Choreography by Jake Kodish ft Sean Lew, Kaycee Rice, Jade Chynoweth]</ref> Their chemistry is considered legendary for their age. Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [[Charlize Glass]], [[JT Church]] and the winner [[Eva Igo]]. A long time their relationship was just superficial. They were once competing against each other. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejQvQ5plWU Their photo showing around] where they stand together as little competion kids was actually an one time intiative by their parents and after that they went separated paths for a very long time. They bombed frequently into each other in classes and at some point Sean was like, 'Ok, I see you too often not knowing your name.' And one day he had asked her, if she minded to join him as a partner for an Institute in his first bigger concept video "Life Experience: Wrong Words" and then they learned each other. - ''[https://youtu.be/MRSeNayfUOU?t=191 "He found the perfect little partner. Didn't he?]"'' asked Jeneffer Lopez Derek Hough at NBC World of Dance 2018 and Derek agreed when Sean & Kaycee entered the stage for their 'The Cut' performance. And the dance world and maybe the TV watchers agreed either, because after the show they got very prominent, especially younger people were [https://youtu.be/gOBKb8qblGU?t=137 standing in line for selfies with them] and many videos where they both get featured, indiviually or as duet went viral.
+He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B4WfpRsF6fo/ Laura Rice's IG Sean & Kaycee yoga]</ref> - he was frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. Sean on the other hand has an accentuation by texture movements Kaycee cannot match (hardly anyone can)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wdha2ZmwAI Let Go - Dylan Brady l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> The couple is always noticed as outstanding, because both are extremely clean, controlled by a lot of multi-coordinated texture movements, fierce accentuation <ref>[https://youtu.be/ACy9IGCWXd4?t=146 Unravel - Sabrina Claudio feat Kaycee & Sean | The Main Event | Tessandra Chavez Experience]</ref> and high expressive performance.<ref>[https://youtu.be/TmzVBGf6uKk?t=408 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan - Choreography by Jake Kodish ft Sean Lew, Kaycee Rice, Jade Chynoweth]</ref> Their chemistry is considered legendary for their age. Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [[Charlize Glass]], [[JT Church]] and the winner [[Eva Igo]]. A long time their relationship was just superficial. They were once competing against each other. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejQvQ5plWU Their photo showing around] where they stand together as little competion kids was actually an one time intiative by their parents and after that they went separated paths for a very long time. They bombed frequently into each other in classes and at some point Sean was like, 'Ok, I see you too often not knowing your name.' And one day he had asked her, if she minded to join him as a partner for an Institute in his first bigger concept video "Life Experience: Wrong Words" and then they learned each other. - ''[https://youtu.be/MRSeNayfUOU?t=191 "He found the perfect little partner. Didn't he?]"'' asked Jeneffer Lopez Derek Hough at NBC World of Dance 2018 and Derek agreed when Sean & Kaycee entered the stage for their 'The Cut' performance. And the dance world and maybe the TV watchers agreed either, because after the show they got very prominent, especially younger people were [https://youtu.be/gOBKb8qblGU?t=137 standing in line for selfies with them] and many videos where they both get featured went viral; indiviually or as duet.
 In 2019, Sean choreographed a music video for mega-star [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Trainor Meghan Trainor] "''AFTER YOU (Directed by Charm La'Donna)"'' on Vevo-YT with just 17 years old and is starring with Kaycee on it as duet. Meghan was actually a secret fan of Sean for many years and they finally met at October 31, 2019. He started in April a crowd funding project for his new short film of dancing cultures worldwide with planned budget $65,000 USD, but the subject changed later and he didn't get raised the target budget. He was nominated for a Arena Award in the category "Rising Star of the year" together with Emma Portner, Logan Edra and the winner [[Bailey Sok]]. He was performing the NBC World of Dance World Final intermezzo show on season three together with [[Kaycee Rice]] and Ian Eastwood while NE-YO was singing on stage. They got the honor to be in line with dance legends like Les Twins, Keone & Mari Madrid, Derek Hough, The Kinjaz, The Lab, Charity Anderson & Andres Peñate<strong> </strong>and Michael Dameski. Finally the ''Step Up: Year of the Dance '' (aka ''Step Up China or Step Up 6) ''movie was released. Sean was assistant choreographer for it along with William "Willdabeast" Adams, Janelle Ginestra-Adams and Jaken Isaiah Preston, featuring Jade Cynoweth and Janelle Ginestra-Adams and Wei Qi and SuperDino are starring. It is currently with about $17,000,000 USD estimated budget Sean's biggest project he participated in. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4060544/ Step Up China]</ref> A convention dance video with Kaycee to the song "False Confidence" by Noah Kahan went viral by 5M+ views within just one month and got Noah's personal attention and the Australian invited them to perfom in LA live on stage with him.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fr7D5BMLk0 False Confidence: Live l Xtra Sean & Kaycee]</ref> When Sean turned 18 he celebrated it in Iceland at Reykjavík with his family and Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B5boFavlUI2/ Sean's IG Iceland]</ref> Before became an adult he already visited many countries in the world. In this year it was at least China, Dominican Republic, Poland, Japan, Iceland and Denmark. Not many people can claim to be a world citizen at his age.