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But then something happened set her more apart …

====Tricia appeared====

===Tricia appeared===

Tricia Miranda, the queen of hip-hop choreography, started her career actually in ballet. As a young girl she tried to cover the dance moves from TV in her hometown Yuma in Arizona. Still these in days she is bringing some of her meanwhile famous dance students into town to the Yuma Hip-Hop Festival and makes the event of national interest.

She started as a trained ballet dancer -- calling herself a "chola ballerina" who shaved the sides of her head and rocked hoop earrings and dark lipstick while donning her ballet shoes. The look became to her personal brand. In her late teens she co-directed a ballet company and received a full scholarship to the prestigious Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. But her dream was to be like the dancers she saw on television and her inspiration Tina Landon, who both danced with and choreographed for Janet Jackson.

After moving to Los Angeles at the age of 21, Miranda knew it was time to truly pursue her dreams and was properly struggling like most pro dancers at the beginning. Her "big break" happened just three years later at 24 when she was cast as a dancer on Beyoncé's "Ladies First" world tour (see above) and she later became a staple in the touring, video and dance industry.

However, she wasn’t always treated that way, she often complained about the unfriendly and impolite working atmosphere. When people complaining about the extreme cutthroat of the dance industry, it was nothing comparing to Tricia’s days. Everyone was just looking to the top of the stardom, the second tier was struggling and the third tier was starving. She often complained about the impropriated demands so that she could keep her pole position. In other words, she felt exploited.

One day after 12 years, she was finally fed up during the filming of Spears' "Circus" video. - "My knees were bleeding from doing groundwork in the gravel, and I was just starting to feel over it -- and I remember never having that feeling before, It's not fair to take a spot from a hungry dancer who deserves to be there just to get a check. I'm not that person, that's not for me." - And she quitted her job as professional dancer on the top of her game – forever – and switched to full time choreographing, teaching and creative directing and got soon an equal reputation.<ref>[https://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/story/_/id/17832394/live-your-life-hip-hop-choreographer-tricia-miranda-rise-top 'Live your Life' -- hip-hop choreographer Tricia Miranda on her rise to the top]</ref>

Regarding Kaycee, one day one of her teachers (she didn’t say whom) tried to match up Tricia with Kaycee. First, she talked to Kaycee’s mom that she needed to take Tricia’s class; and on the other hand she insisted to Tricia, that she urgently needed to see the little girl she discovered at Studio 13. At the beginning Tricia wasn’t very excited, because it was pretty rare that she let any kids in her classes. But one day annoying was successful and Tricia visited Studio 13 and Kaycee took her class.

Kaycee said she completely failed. Of course, she did. That happens if you take an unprepared university test in elementary-school. Tricia hardly ever taught kids. Why she should adjust her teaching methods to one kid she just met?! But she was properly impressed how far the nine years old munchkin got, before she “finally broke out curve and smashed into the mirrors”, compared the professional dancers in Tricia’s master classes, because she took instantly a grab on her and made her to her very first permanent kid student. If Tricia had known the toxic side-effects of these cute munchkins, she properly had been wearing gloves.

But since then Weirdo had her first permanent world-renowned industry dancer and teacher, who really worked personally with some of the biggest artist, such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Brittney Speers and Black Eyed Peas, to name a few, a former top dancer in hip-hop and – last-not-least – someone with Tricia’s business opportunities and educational networking to give her the full doses of the highest industry standards. Before Kaycee and Tricia it was absolutely unique that a nine-years-old had such an industry giant in her corner.

===The Story of “Werk” – The Competition===

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 impropriated for kids. Not a good chance for winning.

But Tricia choreographed “Werk”. 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 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 for a ten years old kid and she won the nationals. These were moment 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 and giving each other some sarcastic side-kicks and keep it beyond business and training. Working with Kaycee changed completely Tricia’s attitude about kids and she became a teacher and mentor for many very young dance talents.

So, they put the taped video of Kaycee’s dance just for fun on Youtube and had no clue, what was coming down from the pike later …

===The Story of Werk – The Blow Off===

Four months after she did her “Werk” performance, one of her fans commented on one of her photos on Instagram that Katy Perry just tweeted her “Werk” solo. Little Weirdo went confused to her parents and told them about it. They thought at the beginning it cannot be for real, must be a fake account, started rooting it from internet down to Katy’s actual account and found the Tweet with the link to her “Werk” video and the caption “!!!WeRk!!!” – validated, verified and confirmed – and got really excited about it, while Kaycee (10) had no clue what is going on here and kept it by a simple “Cool!”. But then the parents explained her proudly, that the princess of pop, who has sold over 150 million records, pointed on her video by link to her entire over 38 millions Tweeter followers and many already forwarded it to their followers such as RuPaul and Wadley.

The effect was an instant blow off of the video counter and it got trendy. In these days it might be normal that dozens of dance videos go viral per day, and especially it’s normal for Kaycee that one of her dance performances passed over a million views, but in 2013 it was very rare, and about a non-televised kid dance competition, it was pretty much unique. It got so much attention of public eye that CNN bothered to live interview her. Sadly the entire promotion process is not well documented.

When Shengela Laquifa Wadley visited her at Studio 13 in Simi Valley, they talked about the lot of inspiring comments people left under the video, but actually the milk turned sour very fast. Mean and disgusting comments appeared more often and suddenly her mom had to jump in as personal firewall to protect her daughter from the trolls, perverts, haters and overreacting parents. That’s properly the reason why Katy Perry never tweeted about other kid performances again. But she didn’t need to, after she made together with the Backpack Kid performance already him a Shorty Award winner before Kaycee. Nevertheless, her entire family started to get wet feet, had to learn the hard way to deal with both – fan-storms and shit-storms – and needed to develop an elephant skin.

Well, the promotion effect didn’t last forever. After The Queen Latifath Show the “Werk” got more and more forgotten. But the credits of her choreographers and family were keeping the train roll forward with new gigs and projects afterwards.

===First Side-effects of Success and Fame===

But it was not just good coming out of it. Kaycee never said it directly and when it started, but gave some clues. It seems some of the other dancers got jealous and quit more and more their friendship and support:

Of course, a dancer whose mom had her own dance studio, could take as many classes she wants for free, could train as long as she wants, doesn’t need bother about costs and her mom, dad or later her older siblings, are willing to drive her where she ever needs to be, is on a complete different level than someone, who is struggling to spare enough pocket money for classes, to get permission and to find any support by family and friends for this “useless” dancing at all and got in serious trouble by expenses for attending a competition or convention. – It isn’t fair! - Nope! It’s life. - Kaycee’s family is considered as progressive, liberal, upper middle-class, regarding video backgrounds with a sense for structure and order; and of course, it matters. But properly the philanthropy and charity oriented Rice found a solution in the Studio 13 project team for some hardships. Celebrity Kaycee Rice is actually a family product and Kaycee is well aware of it. Some wanted to live out their personal version of Dance Moms and she defects to the enemy now – industry dancing.

On the other hand her team mates at Studio 13 were properly happy when they let Kaycee and some of her other talented group mates from their chains to get some extra points on the score cards and hopefully they healed at the right moment, got back in formation after prima donna license expired. A good choreography can give everyone a little shining, but if the group is to diversed from competition perspective is hard to keep the friends together. A split in smaller groups makes sense and there is no reason to get jealous not to be on the A-Team or feel downgraded. So self-reflection to own skills and improvement became very early Weirdo’s concept, because that’s the only things are really in own hands. The more smiling, if you got cut or judged unfair, the more pro you are. Better let it all out later, for instance in the cabin or dance floor if you are alone.

It seems some adult dancers got envious as well, who disliked that the choreographers started running around with all these kid dancers, who doesn’t need two jobs, one for paying the rent and one for paying classes, auditions and castings, so there is hardly any time left to take those afterwards and the American dream gets more and more an American illusion. – It isn’t fair! – Nope! It is life. – But most painful is admitting to get envious on a kid, after all these endless declines.

That’s why it was so important for Kaycee to appear humble and to disprove wrong she ever been charge for. But with Tricia’s influence she started struggling with the contrary of her own existence. - In show business we are nothing without the crowd. If we seek for a cheering crowd, it doesn’t matter it is in class, on a convention, on stage, on TV or by millions via internet, we are anything but humble! – Wrong job. - “Sometimes I’m Kunst. And sometimes the Kunst is me.” (Applause - Lady Gaga) It needed years she finally cancelled that show. –“Loving yourself isn’t selfish” (Kaycee 2019). – In 2013 she found it weird that some others than family and friends wants to take a picture with her. About five years later, the thunderstorm of flashlights on a gala and the line in front of her for selfies, especially with Sean, became normal for her. Some of her friends such as Bailey Sok or Amari Smith were actually fans of her first and were really excited when they got the first time the opportunity to dance with her. Even Sean admired her from the beginning when he saw her on stage competing against each other and her former “partner in crime” Gabe looked up to her as dancer still today. So there is no silent snoopery, no bragging, but after she got famous everyone wants something from her and it was time to flag with an “I NEED MORE SPACE” sweeter to respect the water trench in front of the stardom a little bit more.

To be continued …

==Print Media==

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 But then something happened set her more apart …
-====Tricia appeared====
+===Tricia appeared===
 Tricia Miranda, the queen of hip-hop choreography, started her career actually in ballet. As a young girl she tried to cover the dance moves from TV in her hometown Yuma in Arizona. Still these in days she is bringing some of her meanwhile famous dance students into town to the Yuma Hip-Hop Festival and makes the event of national interest.
 She started as a trained ballet dancer -- calling herself a "chola ballerina" who shaved the sides of her head and rocked hoop earrings and dark lipstick while donning her ballet shoes. The look became to her personal brand. In her late teens she co-directed a ballet company and received a full scholarship to the prestigious Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. But her dream was to be like the dancers she saw on television and her inspiration Tina Landon, who both danced with and choreographed for Janet Jackson.
 After moving to Los Angeles at the age of 21, Miranda knew it was time to truly pursue her dreams and was properly struggling like most pro dancers at the beginning. Her "big break" happened just three years later at 24 when she was cast as a dancer on Beyoncé's "Ladies First" world tour (see above) and she later became a staple in the touring, video and dance industry.
 However, she wasn’t always treated that way, she often complained about the unfriendly and impolite working atmosphere. When people complaining about the extreme cutthroat of the dance industry, it was nothing comparing to Tricia’s days. Everyone was just looking to the top of the stardom, the second tier was struggling and the third tier was starving. She often complained about the impropriated demands so that she could keep her pole position. In other words, she felt exploited.
 One day after 12 years, she was finally fed up during the filming of Spears' "Circus" video. - "My knees were bleeding from doing groundwork in the gravel, and I was just starting to feel over it -- and I remember never having that feeling before, It's not fair to take a spot from a hungry dancer who deserves to be there just to get a check. I'm not that person, that's not for me." - And she quitted her job as professional dancer on the top of her game – forever – and switched to full time choreographing, teaching and creative directing and got soon an equal reputation.<ref>[https://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/story/_/id/17832394/live-your-life-hip-hop-choreographer-tricia-miranda-rise-top 'Live your Life' -- hip-hop choreographer Tricia Miranda on her rise to the top]</ref>
 Regarding Kaycee, one day one of her teachers (she didn’t say whom) tried to match up Tricia with Kaycee. First, she talked to Kaycee’s mom that she needed to take Tricia’s class; and on the other hand she insisted to Tricia, that she urgently needed to see the little girl she discovered at Studio 13. At the beginning Tricia wasn’t very excited, because it was pretty rare that she let any kids in her classes. But one day annoying was successful and Tricia visited Studio 13 and Kaycee took her class.
 Kaycee said she completely failed. Of course, she did. That happens if you take an unprepared university test in elementary-school. Tricia hardly ever taught kids. Why she should adjust her teaching methods to one kid she just met?! But she was properly impressed how far the nine years old munchkin got, before she “finally broke out curve and smashed into the mirrors”, compared the professional dancers in Tricia’s master classes, because she took instantly a grab on her and made her to her very first permanent kid student. If Tricia had known the toxic side-effects of these cute munchkins, she properly had been wearing gloves.
-But since then Weirdo had her first permanent world-renowned industry dancer and teacher, who really worked personally with some of the biggest artist, such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Brittney Speers and Black Eyed Peas, to name a few, a former top dancer in hip-hop and – last-not-least – someone with Tricia’s business opportunities and educational networking to give her the full doses of the highest industry standards.  Before Kaycee and Tricia it was absolutely unique that a nine-years-old had such an industry giant in her corner.
+But since then Weirdo had her first permanent world-renowned industry dancer and teacher, who really worked personally with some of the biggest artist, such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Brittney Speers and Black Eyed Peas, to name a few, a former top dancer in hip-hop and – last-not-least – someone with Tricia’s business opportunities and educational networking to give her the full doses of the highest industry standards. Before Kaycee and Tricia it was absolutely unique that a nine-years-old had such an industry giant in her corner.
+===The Story of “Werk” – The Competition===
+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 impropriated for kids. Not a good chance for winning.
+But Tricia choreographed “Werk”. 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 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 for a ten years old kid and she won the nationals. These were moment 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 and giving each other some sarcastic side-kicks  and keep it beyond business and training. Working with Kaycee changed completely Tricia’s attitude about kids and she became a teacher and mentor for many very young dance talents.
+So, they put the taped video of Kaycee’s dance just for fun on Youtube and had no clue, what was coming down from the pike later …
+===The Story of Werk – The Blow Off===
+Four months after she did her “Werk” performance, one of her fans commented on one of her photos on Instagram that Katy Perry just tweeted her “Werk” solo. Little Weirdo went confused to her parents and told them about it. They thought at the beginning it cannot be for real, must be a fake account, started rooting it from internet down to Katy’s actual account and found the Tweet with the link to her “Werk” video and the caption “!!!WeRk!!!”  – validated, verified and confirmed – and got really excited about it, while Kaycee (10) had no clue what is going on here and kept it by a simple “Cool!”. But then the parents explained her proudly, that the princess of pop, who has sold over 150 million records, pointed on her video by link to her entire over 38 millions Tweeter followers and many already forwarded it to their followers such as RuPaul and Wadley.
+The effect was an instant blow off of the video counter and it got trendy. In these days it might be normal that dozens of dance videos go viral per day, and especially it’s normal for Kaycee that one of her dance performances passed over a million views, but in 2013 it was very rare, and about a non-televised kid dance competition, it was pretty much unique. It got so much attention of public eye that CNN bothered to live interview her. Sadly the entire promotion process is not well documented.
+When Shengela Laquifa Wadley visited her at Studio 13 in Simi Valley, they talked about the lot of inspiring comments people left under the video, but actually the milk turned sour very fast. Mean and disgusting comments appeared more often and suddenly her mom had to jump in as personal firewall to protect her daughter from the trolls, perverts, haters and overreacting parents. That’s properly the reason why Katy Perry never tweeted about other kid performances again. But she didn’t need to, after she made together with the Backpack Kid performance already him a Shorty Award winner before Kaycee. Nevertheless, her entire family started to get wet feet, had to learn the hard way to deal with both – fan-storms and shit-storms – and needed to develop an elephant skin.
+Well, the promotion effect didn’t last forever. After The Queen Latifath Show the “Werk” got more and more forgotten. But the credits of her choreographers and family were keeping the train roll forward with new gigs and projects afterwards.
+===First Side-effects of Success and Fame===
+But it was not just good coming out of it. Kaycee never said it directly and when it started, but gave some clues. It seems some of the other dancers got jealous and quit more and more their friendship and support:
+Of course, a dancer whose mom had her own dance studio, could take as many classes she wants for free, could train as long as she wants, doesn’t need bother about costs and her mom, dad or later her older siblings, are willing to drive her where she ever needs to be, is on a complete different level than someone, who is struggling to spare enough pocket money for classes, to get permission and  to find any support by family and friends for this “useless” dancing at all and got in serious trouble by expenses for attending a competition or convention. – It isn’t fair! - Nope! It’s life. -  Kaycee’s family is considered as progressive, liberal, upper middle-class, regarding video backgrounds with a sense for structure and order; and of course, it matters. But properly the philanthropy and charity oriented Rice found a solution in the Studio 13 project team for some hardships. Celebrity Kaycee Rice is actually a family product and Kaycee is well aware of it.  Some wanted to live out their personal version of Dance Moms and she defects to the enemy now – industry dancing.
+On the other hand her team mates at Studio 13 were properly happy when they let Kaycee and some of her other talented group mates from their chains to get some extra points on the score cards and hopefully they healed at the right moment, got back in formation after prima donna license expired. A good choreography can give everyone a little shining, but if the group is to diversed from competition perspective is hard to keep the friends together. A split in smaller groups makes sense and there is no reason to get jealous not to be on the A-Team or feel downgraded. So self-reflection to own skills and improvement became very early Weirdo’s concept, because that’s the only things are really in own hands. The more smiling, if you got cut or judged unfair, the more pro you are. Better let it all out later, for instance in the cabin or dance floor if you are alone.
+It seems some adult dancers got envious as well, who disliked that the choreographers started running around with all these kid dancers, who doesn’t need two jobs, one for paying the rent and one for paying classes, auditions and castings, so there is hardly any time left to take those afterwards and the American dream gets more and more an American illusion. – It isn’t fair! – Nope! It is life. – But most painful is admitting to get envious on a kid, after all these endless declines.
+That’s why it was so important for Kaycee to appear humble and to disprove wrong she ever been charge for. But with Tricia’s influence she started struggling with the contrary of her own existence. - In show business we are nothing without the crowd. If we seek for a cheering crowd, it doesn’t matter it is in class, on a convention, on stage, on TV or by millions via internet, we are anything but humble! – Wrong job. - “Sometimes I’m Kunst. And sometimes the Kunst is me.” (Applause - Lady Gaga)  It needed years she finally cancelled that show. –“Loving yourself isn’t selfish” (Kaycee 2019). – In 2013 she found it weird that some others than family and friends wants to take a picture with her. About five years later, the thunderstorm of flashlights on a gala and the line in front of her for selfies, especially with Sean, became normal for her. Some of her friends such as Bailey Sok or Amari Smith were actually fans of her first and were really excited when they got the first time the opportunity to dance with her. Even Sean admired her from the beginning when he saw her on stage competing against each other and her former “partner in crime” Gabe looked up to her as dancer still today. So there is no silent snoopery, no bragging, but after she got famous everyone wants something from her and it was time to flag with an “I NEED MORE SPACE” sweeter to respect the water trench in front of the stardom a little bit more.
+To be continued …
 ==Print Media==