Kaycee Rice

Kaycee Caitlin Rice
Gender	Female
Age	15
Birthdate	October 21, 2002
Nationality	American
Hometown	Los Angeles, California
Height	5'2"
Eye Color	Brown
Hair Color	Brown
School Grade	10th (18/19)
Professional Information
Profession	Student Dancer Actress Model
Affiliations	Daniel Hoff Agency Bloc Talent Agency ImmaBEAST Co.
Dance Studios	Studio 13 Dance Studio (2009-2016) Candy Apple's Dance Center (guest)
Titles	see below
Friends and Family
Parents	Laura Rice (Mother) Brad Rice (Father)
Siblings	Kylie Rice Devon Rice
Friends	Haley Huelsman Ashtin Roth Chloe Smith Tessa Wilkinson Laquifa McKenzie Morales Bailey Sok
Pets	own a dog
Nicknames	Weirdo

Kaycee Caitlin Rice (born on October 21, 2002 in Woodland Hills, California, U.S.), is a young professional dancer, actress, model and a philanthropist living in Los Angeles, California.

At the age of 10, Kaycee did a "Werk" routine for a national dance competition, choreographed by former star dancer Tricia Miranda, which she won. Pop singer Katy Perry somehow found the YouTube video of her routine four months later and tweeted it to about 38,000,000 of her followers. After then she became an overnight internet sensation. She was the first dance kid ever went viral by a non-televised competition video and inspired the youth in 2013. She got immediately interviewed by CNN, appeared on the Queen Latifah Show and some national newspapers and magazines wrote articles about her, plus an exclusive interview with her entire family by UK's Daily Mail. The singer of the performance song "Werqin Girl", Shengela Laquifa, visited her in Simi Valley at Dance Studio 13, which her mom owned, to thank her for enormous boost in record selling.

Kaycee danced for TV shows and series, music and concept videos, classes and conventions assistance, teaching, commercials and live stage performances. Since joining ImmaBEAST in 2014, she is considered full professional, in the sense of child labor laws allowed it.

She got most fame by dancing or starring on many hours of class routines and concept videos in high quality with some of Los Angeles most influential and established choreographers with millions of hits over the years. In September 2018, she had about 1.3M followers on Instagram, 260K subscribers on YouTube, 100K followers on Facebook, representing millions of her fans worldwide.

With the age of 15, Weirdo has had already a thumb thick productive and professional record, with a level of summarizing highlights that many professional dancers cannot match at the end of their carriers, such as; performing on the TV broadcast with most watchers in American history, 120 millions plus 80,000 in the arena, the 2015 Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, side-by-side with Katy Perry and Missy Elliott with the age of 12; she's also been on the Oscars (2014) and 90210 and featured in the music video for "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor (2.2 billions hits in 2018) with the age of 11. Performing on the stage with Justin Bieber and Janet Jackson with the age of 13; and many more.

Kaycee was a guest dancer on the fifth season of Dance Moms and Nickelodeon's School of Rock TV series. She got her first acting main role on Disney's short film How to catch a ghost, got a minor role in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later - Season 3 episode "Fast Times at Bayview High Gallery". She played also Maggie on crowd founded TV series The Neighborhood Kiddos, but the series never launched successfully. In 2018, she announced getting more focus on an acting carrier in future.

She made commercials, for instance, for Walmart and Nike. She gets first dance kid ever sponsored by Nike, running her own campaign and had been allowed to design her own shoe for them - design Weirdo.

She got the nickname "Weirdo" by her mom to describe the not normal behavior of her daughter, which she accepted and made it to her personal philosophy - "Be yourself and be weird." aka have self-esteem and be self-confident and don't care what others think. She runs a small wearing enterprise first the slogan "Weirdo - Just be you.", managed by her mom, which became much more than a fan merchandiser.

Weirdo gets online home schooled since 6th grade, but went for 10th grade to a public school, got A-s straight in first semester, showing she has much more to offer than just a high carrier IQ.

Kaycee is literally famous for being humble and not to take off by success, start bragging or being cocky, even if false modesty seems sometimes ridiculous. Her parents and choreographers conventionalized her to keep ground-standing. If she wants to compare with someone else, she should trying the girl in the mirror or on video. But that was exactly what led to her popularity. Always smiling, in good mood and supportive. Her new dance partner Sean Lew said about her "Try bowling with her. She left a trail of glitter and unicorns!" Kindness is her number one must-have feature; for herself and others.

Kaycee also dances many years as philanthropist, such as for www.idance4acure.org, and supporting to fight childhood cancer. Due her engagement and popularity, and those of many other dancers and choreographers, the funds rises very well, financing research and treatments for children with cancer and she personally has had spent some time with kids diagnosed cancer.

She is trained in a various styles of dancing - ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, tumbling and her strongest suits contemporary and hip-hop. Her favorite style is tap. Her former partner Gabe De Guzman described: "She picks up choreography really quickly—and she can do any style of dance you throw at her." And DanceSpirit wrote: "Armed with limitless flexibility and a natural expressive quality, Kaycee carved out her place in the competition world as a versatile technical dancer." Her back flexibility combined with her without-first-sign spin and turn combinations ending in accentuated fierce moves became to a kind of trademark of her dance. Derek Hough, who was not used to watch Kaycee stated in The Duels round of World of Dance Season 2: "First of all, the back bend over there, sick, absolute stunning!" She made a stretching routine video, to show how she kept that flexibility. Gabe described her with "She's like Elastigirl from The Incredibles. She's that flexible." Her new partner Sean Lew stated: "She has no bones." But actually he should know better after experiencing Weirdo's martial arts unplugged - she has a Blue Belt in Tae Kwon Do - during rehearsals of World of Dance by getting it twice in the testicles and one time straight in his head with her leg, of course accidentally.

In 2018, she competed with Sean Lew in season two of NBC's World of Dance. 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. As absolute surprise must be considered her nomination for a Streamys Award - The Oscars of Web - in the category Dance together with 1million Dance Studio, Dytto (Courtney Nicole Kelly), Kyle Hanagami and Matt Steffanina with still sweet 15 years old. The winner is TBD on Oct 22, 2018. She also started teaching her first dance classes with her own choreography. All of her first three classes of about 80 dancers were sold out in advance.

Dances

Solos

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Competition	Place Awards
2009	Goodie Goodie	Tap	unknown	Showstopper	unknown
	Hound Dog	Jazz	unknown	Showstopper	unknown
2010	ABC's of Love	Tap	unknown	Starbound (Long Beach I)	1st in Junior Petitie Solos
				Starbound (Redondo Beach II)	1st in Junior Petitie Solos
				Starbound (Anaheim II)	3rd in Mini Competitive Solos
	Cooties	Acrobatic Jazz	unknown	Starbound (Redondo Beach II)	3rd in Junior Petitie Solos
				Starbound (Long Beach I)	4th in Junior Petitie Solos
2011	All About Me	Jazz	unknown	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	4th in Mini Competitive Solos
	Somewhere	Lyrical	unknown	unknown	unknown
2012	Evil Gal	Jazz	unknown	KAR (Long Beach)	1st in Secondary 8 & Under Solos
				Thunderstruck (Las Vegas)	1st in Junior Solos
				Rainbow (Ontario I)	2nd in Elite Starz 9-11 Solos
	Favorite Things	Lyrical	unknown	Showstopper	unknown
	That's Tap	Tap	unknown	unknown	unknown
2013	Black Widow	Jazz	Kristin Abbadini	Starbound (Redondo Beach)	9th in Junior Solos
	Werk	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	unknown	1st in Junior Solos
	DaCara	Jazz	Kristyn Abbadini	KAR Dance - Long Beach	1st - Top Intermediate Solo 9-11
	DaFace	Tap	Joy Mosman	Revolution (Upland)	Regional Junior Miss Revolution
	Gone	Open	unknown	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	5th in Junior Competitive Solos
				Starbound (Redondo Beach II)	3rd in Junior Solos
	OMG	Tap	unknown	KAR (Long Beach)	1st in Junior Solos
				Starbound (Redondo Beach)	2nd in Junior Solos
2014	Flawless	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Thunderstruck	1st in Junior Solos
				Revolution (Upland)	3rd in Blue 9-11 Solos
	Trapped	Open	unknown	unknown	unknown
	unknown	unknown	unknown	Revolution (Upland)	2nd in Junior Superstar Solos 1st Runner-Up for Regional Junior Miss Superstar
2015	Fine Objects	Open	Zoi Tatopoulos	Spotlight Dance Cup	1st in Teen Solos
	Hot Stuff	Jazz	unknown	unknown	unknown
	Misdemeanor	Hip-Hop	unknown	Nextstar	1st in Nextstar Teen Solos
	Talk	Open	Kristyn Abbadin	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	Diamond Winner
2016	Nerodia	Open	Zoi Tatopoulos	Rockstar	1st in Teen Solos
				Spotlight Dance Cup	Diamond Winner

Duets

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancer	Competition	Place Awards
2010	Car Wash Cuties	Jazz	unknown	Bailey Holt	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	4th in Mini Competitive Duet/Trio
2013	Monster	Hip-Hop	unknown	Gabe De Guzman
2014	This Is Us	Hip-Hop	unknown	Bailey Holt
2016	Control	Open	Zoi Tatopoulos	Gabe De Guzman
	Gumball	Contemporary	Zoi Tatopoulos	Bailey Holt	Spotlight Dance Cup	Diamond Winners

Groups

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancers	Competition	Place Awards
2013	Beat Thieves	Hip-Hop	unknown	unknown	Nextstar	1st in Junior Groups
2015	Pink Friday	Hip-Hop	unknown	Hayley Kassel Abbigail Hoogveld Anneston Pisayavong Aubrie Shadday Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Kioni Gallagher Kylie Rice Becca Perenchio Alexandra Markow	Starbound - National Talent Competition	1st Place - Teen Elite Group
	Sassy Seven	Jazz	Kristyn Abbadini	Kinsley Holt Violet Osmanson Becca Perenchio Rayline Perez Anneston Pisayavong Marissa Temme	Spotlight Dance Cup	Ruby Winner - Junior Small Group
	Six	Jazz	Kristyn Abbadini	Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Becca Perenchio Anneston Pisayavong Marissa Temme	Nextstar	1st in Junior Advanced Small Groups
	Ethreal	Contemporary	unknown	Haley Huelsman Tessa Wilkinson Chloe Smith Ashtin Roth	Energy	2nd in Teen Small Groups

TV Competition Shows

America's Got Talent

In 2014, Kaycee competed on season 9 of AGT with her dance partner Gabe De Guzman as Kaycee & Gabe, but they were eliminated during Judgment Week. Judge Howie Mandel voted "No", because he felt Gabe was much better than Kaycee. He did not know that she had a broken foot, because she did not tell. Otherwise she would not being allowed to perform on stage and had to let down Gabe.

tWitch & Allison's Kids Dance Challenge

In 2015, the duet with Gabe De Guzman was much more successful on The Ellen DeGeneres Show season 13, where they both won the prize to get a chance being on the Ellen show. At the beginning it was announced that just one kid was allowed on Ellen, but they danced together first round as duo, were been accepted, spitted up for next one and at the end met each other as finalists. However, tWitch & Allison were so amazed by their talent, that they had spoken with Ellen let them both on the show, but they didn't tell, until final duel was battled out. After then they had shown the kids a video of Ellen telling them the good news. On the show, they performed as a quartet with tWitch & Allison, after a short interview with Ellen.

World of Dance

In 2018, on the NBC World of Dance show season 2 she performed with her new partner Sean Lew as Sean & Kaycee, getting second in Divisional Final and they became one of the most popular acts of the show with a lot of special clips and interviews by NBC. They got huge laudatio during the show. Jennifer Lopez eulogized them as with "If anyone in this competition can be called prodigies, it's Sean and his partner Kaycee." ... "You have a real talent" .."technically perfect" ... "You move me in a way I cannot explain sometimes." and actually broke out in tears after Sean & Kaycee had the nerves to perform half of their qualifiers routine blindfolded in front of 8.5 million watchers on national television, making an huge impact in the dance community. Jenna Dewan stated in an interview later: "I swear, they are the future of choreography and dance." After first airing the adorable couple was no longer treated as dance stars, but as common celebrities, who pointed out that they are just best friends and not dating (yet). Scores of rounds see below.

Qualifiers (Silence)
Ne-Yo	97
Jennifer Lopez	96
Derek Hough	95
AVERAGE	96

Duels Round (Grimey)
3 Xtreme	87
Sean & Kaycee	93.3

The Cut (Can I Be Him)
Ne-Yo	88
Jennifer Lopez	94
Derek Hough	94
AVERAGE	92

Divisional Final (The Way I Do)
Ne-Yo	91
Misty Copeland	92
Jennifer Lopez	95
Derek Hough	91
AVERAGE	92.3

Dance Titles

• Pulse Protégé 2013
• Miss Petite Starquest
• Miss Petite KAR 2010 & 2011
• Miss Petite Encore
• Regional Petite Miss KAR 2012
• Regional Junior Miss Revolution 2014
• Thunderstruck International Top Soloist Title Winner 2010, 2011, & 2012
• Starbound Miss Star of Hope 2012, Rainbow Dancer of the Year 2012, Miss Jr. Nexstar 2012
• Teen Miss Nexstar 2015
• Teen Miss Dance Icon as well as the grand title champion at Thunderstruck's 2015 International Finals.

Runner-Up Titles

• 1st runner up for Regional Junior Miss Rainbow Elite Starz DOY 2012

Filmography

Television

TV Acting Roles

Year	Series/Movie/Film	Role	Notes
2016	How to Catch a Ghost	Jase	Nominated for a World Choreography Award (Christopher Scott)
2017	The Neighborhood Kiddos	Maggie
	Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later	Popular Girl

TV Dance Performances

Year	Show	Celebrities	Role	Other Dancers	Notes
2013	The Queen Latifah Show	Self	Starring Solo		plus an interview by Queen Latifah
2014	The Oscars	Pharell Williams	Background
2015	The XLIX Super Bowl Halftime Show	Katy Perry Missy Elliott	Background	Gabe De Guzman Charlize Glass Will Simmons ImmaBEAST	Choreography of Elliott's performance dance group by Tricia Miranda
	90210
	Dance Moms Season 5	Abby's Trash, Cathy's Treasure: Self	Starring Group	Haley Huelsman Tessa Wilkinson Chloe Smith Ashtin Roth	2nd in the Teen Small Group Division 3rd Overall
		Mackenzie's Time to Shine: Self	Starring Solo		did not place
			Starring Group	Haley Huelsman Tessa Wilkinson Chloe Smith Ashtin Roth	1st in the Teen Division 1st Overall - 295.6 points
2015-8	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	2015: tWitch & Allison Hooker	Starring Quartet	Gabe De Guzman	Winner of Kids Dance Challenge
		2017: Portugal	Background	Sean Lew Charlize Glass Josh Price
		2017: Ellen DeGeneres	Starring Sextet	tWitch Hooker 4 others	Ellen's Birthday
		2018: Self	Starring Duet	Sean Lew
2016	Lip Sync Battle	Kyndall Harris	Background	Tahani Anderson 3 more
2016-7	The Disney Music Awards	Many	Hype Squad	2016: Kyndall Harris Larsen Thompsen	Intermezzo shows
				2017: Tahani Anderson Gabe De Guzman Will Simmons Prince Aidan
2017	School of Rock
2018	KTLA5 News	Self	Starring Duet	Sean Lew	plus interview

More TV Appearances

Year	Broadcast	Hosts	Subjects	Other Guests	Notes
2013	Teens Wanna Know - Latin Flavah - Behind the Scenes	Michael Pena	Extra subsection (coming soon)	Jordyn Jones Malia Tinay Tatiana McQuay Lexee Smith Victoria Hernandez Julian Hott Kayla Kawasaki Marlee Hightower Zach Belandres Kida Burns Gabriel De Guzman Brian Pierce Josh Levi Melissa Ochoa DJ Kiss Bobby "Kato" Drake Brenda Russell-Baca Cassius Weathersby Shane Baca	Featuring the choreography and artistic direction of the award-winning Shane Sparks from So You Think You Can Dance? and America's Best Dance Crew
	CNN - The Showbiz Tonight	Carlos Diaz	Interview about "Werk" hip-hop solo and Katy Perry tweet	none
2018	NBC LA - Channel 4 Morning News		Interview about NBC World of Dance, their background etc.	Sean Lew
	LA TV - The Zoo		Interview about NBC World of Dance, their background etc.	Sean Lew
	Disney Radio	self	Clip about "Being yourself"	none

Online Platforms

Music Videos

Platform			Title	Celebrities	Role	Notes
Name	Release Date	~Hits 2018.10.04
YT-Vevo	2014.06.11	2,227,000,000	All About That Bass	Meghan Trainor	Background
YT	2017.06.30	12,800,000	The Man - Feel It Still	Portugal	Starring Sextet	Directed and Edited By: David Javier Concept/Creative Direction/Choreography: Brian Friedman Other Dancers "The Outlaws": Charlize Glass Maddie Ziegler Sean Lew Josh Price Gabe de Guzman
YT	2017.12.06	1,840,000	Missing You	Blake McGrath	Starring Group	Choreography by Tessandra Chavez. Directed & Filmed by Tim Milgram. 19 more dancers including Blake.
YT-Vevo	2018.04.03	24,500,000	NO EXCUSES	Meghan Trainor	Starring Group	11 more Dancers
YT	2018.06.21	250,000	JUNE feat Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice	Sage Charmaine	Headlining duet with Sage	Director: Brian Friedman DP: Brazil Editor: Kalyne Lionheart Choreography: Tessandra Chavez Assistant Choreographer: Kevin Frey

Concept Videos

Platform			Title	Director/ Choreographer/ Producer	Role	Notes
Name	Release Date	~Hits 2018.10.06
YT	2013.12.26	4,720,000	"Kidz"	Directed and Edited: Erik Saradpon Concept and Choreography: Tricia Miranda	Starring Group	Other Dancers: Alexus Armijo Soni Bringas Charlize Glass Gabe de Guzman Julian Hott Jordyn Jones Sierra Neudeck Songs: "Baby I" by Ariana Grande "Slow Down" by Selena Gomez "Best Song Ever" by One Direction Filmed at Studio 13 Dance in Simi Valley
YT	2015.10.15	172,000	Kaycee Rice - "Brand New Sound" 12 years old	Choreography: Janelle Ginestra	Headlining with two background dancers	Other dancers: Tahani Anderson Sparkles Lund Filmed at Studio 13 Dance in Simi Valley Film Credit-Brazil: Burn The Boats
YT	2015.11.11	66,000	Kaycee Rice & Brooklyn Rice - "Klaus"	Choreography: Zoi Tatopoulos	Headlining Duet	Film and Edit: Raul Sanchez & Nico Tatopoulos
YT	2016.02.02	4,860,000	EPIC SPORTS DANCE BATTLE! - Chicken Wing	Director, cutter and producer: Scott David Winn (aka ScottDW)	A sister who joins her brother for a dance battle. Plot: The chicken wing snacks running out during a sports evening with many friends. Two duos battle it out who is to blame.	Music: ScottDW
YT	2016.05.21	420,000	Kaycee Rice & Bailey Holt - GUMBALL	Choreography: Zoi Tatopoulos	Headlining Duet	Film Credit by @_Typo. Music by Metome Song "GUMBALL".
YT	2016.06.04	619,000	Kaycee Rice & Gabe De Guzman "KONTROL"	Choreography: Zoi Tatopoulos	Headlining Duet	Film Credit by @_Typo.
YT	2018.06.02	684,000	Life Experiences: Wrong Words ft. Kaycee Rice	Choreography, directing and Editing: Sean Lew	Headlining Duet	Other dancer: Sean Lew Camera: David Javier
YT	2018.05.26	1,210,000	FALL IN LINE - Christina Aguilera ft Demi Lovato	Concept and Choreography: Jojo Gomez Director of Photography: Tim Milgram Producer: Tim Milgram	Starring Duet	Other Dancer: Jojo Gomez 1st AC: Donovan Okimura Grip: Brandon Anastascio Production Assistant: Lexi Okimura
IG	2018.07.11	849,000	“you know what i want to do”	Choreography: Sean Lew	Starring Duet	Other Dancer: Sean Lew Filmed: Gerald Nonasdez Song: Troye Sivan Dance To This
YT	2018.07.19	1,960,000	Låpsley - Station	Directed, Shot, & Edited: Tim Milgram Choreography: Tessandra Chavez	Headlining Duet	Other dancer: Sean Lew
YT	2018.08.11	976,000	HIGH SCHOOL DANCE BATTLE V! FRESHMAN DANCE OFF!	Director, cutter and producer: Scott David Winn (aka ScottDW)	A high school student who is going into senior years. Plot: She and her class mate met two senior dance teams who tried to recruit them and have a dance battle over it.Finally both freshmen joined the battle and impressed both teams.	Other dancers: Gabe De Guzman Angel Gibbs Jevohn Gentry Music: ScottDW

Good Quality Videos of Kaycee's Live Show Cases

Platform			Title	Event	Role	Notes
Name	Release Date	~Hits 2018.10.08
YT	2015.10.02	4,600,000	Kaycee Rice Experience	Barbie Rock ‘n Royals Concert	Headlining with two backgrounds	Other dancers: Tahani Anderson Sparkles Lund Choreography: Janelle Ginestra Song: "Brand New Sound"
YT	2016.12.16	784,000	Kaycee Rice FrontRow	World of Dance Live OC 2016	Starring Solo

Gallery

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Videos

• File:World of Dance 2018 - Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice Qualifiers (Full Performance)
• File:World of Dance 2018 - Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice Confessional (Digital Exclusive)
• File:World of Dance 2018 - Sean & Kaycee The Duels (Full Performance)

Fun Facts

• Kaycee began dancing when she was 4 in a half years old and began competing when she was 5 years old.
• Kaycee's favorite style of dance is tap.
• In 2014, Kaycee was dancing around 20 hours per week.
• Kaycee celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.
• She danced on America's Got Talent with a broken foot and on a national dance completion with a broken arm. Last her dance group won.
• She started practicing Tae Kwon Do before dancing, being certified Blue Belt.

External Links

• Official Site
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube

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