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He got the nickname "Lewser" by his family, who said it as a joke, but made later a family merchandise by that. Due double meaning only good friends and fans call him "Lewser" and wear his merchandise.<ref>[https://www.thelewser.com/ Lewser Merch]</ref>
He got the nickname "Lewser" by his family, who said it as a joke, but made later a family merchandise by that. Due double meaning only good friends and fans call him "Lewser" and wear his merchandise.<ref>[https://www.thelewser.com/ Lewser Merch]</ref>


His skills as dancer are not less impressive. He started dancing with his older siblings Sarris and Sarah at Mather Dance Studio at he age of four and became a member of Shannon Mather's dance company. He got at the beginning most of his technical training there - ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap, lyrical and hip-hop. He performed his first hip-hop dance on stage even before had a class. Most impressive, he learned ball room dancing as well and won with his partner "Sia" at the age of 8 or 9 two championships with the standards Rumba, Samba, Jive, ChaCha and Paso Nova. Due his work as dancing far from the dance community, her took also a lot of industrial classes in LA with some of the most influential and established choreographers and got final on The Pulse on Tour in 2013 at the age of 12 as Elite Protégé. Two years before, he met his best friend and mentor those days William "WillDaBEAST" Adams, who became later to a kind of dance father (Papa Beast) to Sean and supported him and his future wife Janelle Ginestra(-Adams) founding ImmaBEAST, by dancing on his videos, finding supporters and even cooking, in these days one of the most important dance industry players in the world. Sean mixed more and more other influences to his style of dancing, which made him in same way an outstanding choreographer as well. NEYO stated at NBC's World of Dance season two to him: ''"I can watch someone else perform your choreography and know 'Yeah, that's Sean.'"''
His skills as dancer are not less impressive. He started dancing with his older siblings Sarris and Sarah at Mather Dance Studio at the age of four and became a member of Shannon Mather's dance company. He got at the beginning most of his technical training there - ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap, lyrical and hip-hop. He performed his first hip-hop dance on stage even before had a class. Most impressive, he learned ball room dancing as well and won with his partner "Sia" at the age of 8 or 9 two championships with the standards Rumba, Samba, Jive, ChaCha and Paso Nova. Due his work as dancing far from the dance community, her took also a lot of industrial classes in LA with some of the most influential and established choreographers and got final on The Pulse on Tour in 2013 at the age of 12 as Elite Protégé. Two years before, he met his best friend and mentor those days William "WillDaBEAST" Adams, who became later to a kind of dance father (Papa Beast) to Sean and supported him and his future wife Janelle Ginestra(-Adams) founding ImmaBEAST, by dancing on his videos, finding supporters and even cooking, in these days one of the most important dance industry players in the world. Sean mixed more and more other influences to his style of dancing, which made him in same way an outstanding choreographer as well. NEYO stated at NBC's World of Dance season two to him: ''"I can watch someone else perform your choreography and know 'Yeah, that's Sean.'"''


Sean also learned the classics beyond mainstream dancing. Especially Galen Hooks, Tessandra Chavez and Nika Kjun give 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>
Sean also learned the classics beyond mainstream dancing. Especially Galen Hooks, Tessandra Chavez and Nika Kjun give 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>