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He started choreographing at the age of ten <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXX9ALAGsI Sean Lew - (Self-Choreography at 10 years old) Bring It On-Finally Famous Big Sean]</ref> and got finally his accolade as established choreographer during World of Dance season two by the judges, who were blown away by his unique, smart, well thought, storytelling and emotional choreography with the age of 16. Shortly afterwards he toured with Brain Friedman through Europe<ref>[http://fairplaysummit.com/team/14187,sean-lew Wasaw Poland Team Sean Lew 01]</ref> and Asia<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8SyePM3gnM Dem Beats feat Sean Lew - Todrick feat RuPaul | Brian Friedman Choreography | Asia Camp]</ref> attending conventions and teaching master classes. But he already worked before with Janelle and Will on a project in China.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F3TaVrvpVw Vlog #3 ll China]</ref> And taught classes in Japan<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30nk2xnWuiU Vlog #2 ll Japan]</ref> and Mexico and, of course, across the US as member of ImmaBEAST as dancer, teacher and choreographer. His first bigger concept video as choreographer, creative director, editor and dancer was "Wrong Words" in June 2017, when he worked first time on a project with his current permanent dance partner and best friend [[Kaycee Rice]]. But already "Miracle", filmed and edited by "Typo", was an impressive work.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4o_LfuCE38 Miracle l Oreo l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> | He started choreographing at the age of ten <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXX9ALAGsI Sean Lew - (Self-Choreography at 10 years old) Bring It On-Finally Famous Big Sean]</ref> and got finally his accolade as established choreographer during World of Dance season two by the judges, who were blown away by his unique, smart, well thought, storytelling and emotional choreography with the age of 16. Shortly afterwards he toured with Brain Friedman through Europe<ref>[http://fairplaysummit.com/team/14187,sean-lew Wasaw Poland Team Sean Lew 01]</ref> and Asia<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8SyePM3gnM Dem Beats feat Sean Lew - Todrick feat RuPaul | Brian Friedman Choreography | Asia Camp]</ref> attending conventions and teaching master classes. But he already worked before with Janelle and Will on a project in China.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F3TaVrvpVw Vlog #3 ll China]</ref> And taught classes in Japan<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30nk2xnWuiU Vlog #2 ll Japan]</ref> and Mexico and, of course, across the US as member of ImmaBEAST as dancer, teacher and choreographer. His first bigger concept video as choreographer, creative director, editor and dancer was "Wrong Words" in June 2017, when he worked first time on a project with his current permanent dance partner and best friend [[Kaycee Rice]]. But already "Miracle", filmed and edited by "Typo", was an impressive work.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4o_LfuCE38 Miracle l Oreo l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> | ||
His older sister Serris shot the first videos of his choreography and edited it until he was 12. Soon dance partners like [[Jordyn Jones]] or Kenneth San Jose helped him showing his choreography. About after a year Sean took over filming and editing. Was a dance partner missing, a little CGI helped and he danced by himself as duet <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2vunXk2K8w D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha Dance]</ref> or got transparent to the background.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTLQ5sdRXS4 What Do You Mean? - @justinbieber l Sean Lew l Choreographed by Sean Lew]</ref> Later producers like MyTypo or TJ Lewis filmed and edited his choreography with more production effort. His first dance masterclass teaching was filmed when he was 11.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0mZpis6MYg Sean Lew's Masterclass at a High School]</ref> And the end of the process Sean dropped out as a brilliant camera man, editor, creative director and choreographer. His work can be watched on his YouTube channel or sometimes Instagram account. | Sean stated that he didn't watch often TV or playing video games, but music was an important part of his life right from the beginning. He started choreographing to express himself better by music and dancing. His older sister Serris shot the first videos of his choreography and edited it until he was 12. Soon dance partners like [[Jordyn Jones]] or Kenneth San Jose helped him showing his choreography. About after a year Sean took over filming and editing. Was a dance partner missing, a little CGI helped and he danced by himself as duet <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2vunXk2K8w D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha Dance]</ref> or got transparent to the background.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTLQ5sdRXS4 What Do You Mean? - @justinbieber l Sean Lew l Choreographed by Sean Lew]</ref> Later producers like MyTypo or TJ Lewis filmed and edited his choreography with more production effort. His first dance masterclass teaching was filmed when he was 11.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0mZpis6MYg Sean Lew's Masterclass at a High School]</ref> And the end of the process Sean dropped out as a brilliant camera man, editor, creative director and choreographer. His work can be watched on his YouTube channel or sometimes Instagram account. | ||
Sean has had already an impressive non-dance related child acting career, but he considered the character roles he got as embarrassing. <ref>[https://youtu.be/RXOwtiqrLyY?t=623 Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice FULL Facebook Live (9.5.18)]</ref> Regarding IMDb, he appeared on TV soup series "See Dad Run" (2014), "Sam & Cat" (2014), "Bizaardvark" (2016), "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn" (2014), on the documentary series "On the Spot Interviews" (2013), "Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off" (2016), on home series "Home & Family" (2016), on boulevard series "E! Live from the Red Carpet" - reporting from The Academy Awards 2015 .and several online-network-series like "To the Pointe" (2018). He also appeared on music short film "Todrick Hall: Freaks Like Me" (2014). Sean was even part of the ADR ("Automated" or "Automatic" Dialog Replacement) group of the "Penguins of Madagascar" (2014) and added his voice to the film. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5631571/ IMDb Sean Lew]</ref> | Sean has had already an impressive non-dance related child acting career, but he considered the character roles he got as embarrassing. <ref>[https://youtu.be/RXOwtiqrLyY?t=623 Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice FULL Facebook Live (9.5.18)]</ref> Regarding IMDb, he appeared on TV soup series "See Dad Run" (2014), "Sam & Cat" (2014), "Bizaardvark" (2016), "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn" (2014), on the documentary series "On the Spot Interviews" (2013), "Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off" (2016), on home series "Home & Family" (2016), on boulevard series "E! Live from the Red Carpet" - reporting from The Academy Awards 2015 .and several online-network-series like "To the Pointe" (2018). He also appeared on music short film "Todrick Hall: Freaks Like Me" (2014). Sean was even part of the ADR ("Automated" or "Automatic" Dialog Replacement) group of the "Penguins of Madagascar" (2014) and added his voice to the film. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5631571/ IMDb Sean Lew]</ref> | ||
It seems it has to be a misunderstanding about statements Sean graduated high-school at the age of 15, because his own agency claims it (yet) <ref>[http://msaagency.com/portfolio/sean-lew/ SEAN LEW | MSA AGENCY]</ref>. Sean got online home schooled. But regarding new data, he graduated at Jun 19th, 2019 at the California Connections Academy ''(we apologize for wrong conclusions over longer period in his Wiki page. But hey, Sean! When your own agency claims it, you should correct it).'' <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/By58EDGln6P/ Seans Gradification Cerimony]</ref> <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/By6MeBbFOgX/ Seans Gradification Cerimony]</ref> | |||
Sean also dances many years as philanthropist, such as for http://www.idance4acure.org,<ref>[http://youtu.be/0O88GIxQ5u8 Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice Dancė Nėtwork Interview]</ref> and supporting to fight childhood cancer. Due his engagement and popularity, and those of many other dancers and choreographers, the funds rises very well, financing research and treatments for children with cancer. Other engagements by him went public are "#prayforpaloma" <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byBW-P5GdZ8 #prayforpaloma l Choreographed by Sean Lew l Gallant - Talking in Your Sleep]</ref> and https://pedrogtprelief.org <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoWhEAcEYWQ Sean and Kaycee - Skyscraper | D-trix Choreography]</ref>. | Sean also dances many years as philanthropist, such as for http://www.idance4acure.org,<ref>[http://youtu.be/0O88GIxQ5u8 Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice Dancė Nėtwork Interview]</ref> and supporting to fight childhood cancer. Due his engagement and popularity, and those of many other dancers and choreographers, the funds rises very well, financing research and treatments for children with cancer. Other engagements by him went public are "#prayforpaloma" <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byBW-P5GdZ8 #prayforpaloma l Choreographed by Sean Lew l Gallant - Talking in Your Sleep]</ref> and https://pedrogtprelief.org <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoWhEAcEYWQ Sean and Kaycee - Skyscraper | D-trix Choreography]</ref>. | ||
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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 Mather 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 in Latin dancing. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxREe7sEDl8 Sean Lew and Ria at Emerald Ball 2010 Latin]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z101DNPdqiA Hollywood dancesport Championships Latin Sean Lew & Ria solo]</ref> Due his work as dancing far from the dance community, he took also a lot of dance 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 and graduated as Elite Alumnus in 2014. Two years before, he met his friend and mentor those days William "WillDaBEAST" Adams, who became later to a kind of dance father or big brother for Sean and Sean 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 companies in the world. Sean mixed more and more other influences to his style of dancing. NEYO stated at NBC's World of Dance season two to him: ''"I feel I can watch someone else do your choreography and go '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 Mather 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 in Latin dancing. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxREe7sEDl8 Sean Lew and Ria at Emerald Ball 2010 Latin]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z101DNPdqiA Hollywood dancesport Championships Latin Sean Lew & Ria solo]</ref> Due his work as dancing far from the dance community, he took also a lot of dance 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 and graduated as Elite Alumnus in 2014. Two years before, he met his friend and mentor those days William "WillDaBEAST" Adams, who became later to a kind of dance father or big brother for Sean and Sean 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 companies in the world. Sean mixed more and more other influences to his style of dancing. NEYO stated at NBC's World of Dance season two to him: ''"I feel I can watch someone else do your choreography and go '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 | 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> 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 - he is frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. 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> Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Charlize_Glass Charlize Glass], JT Church and the winner [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Eva_Igo Eva Igo]. | He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee - he is frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. 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> Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Charlize_Glass Charlize Glass], JT Church and the winner [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Eva_Igo Eva Igo]. | ||
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