Bailey Sok
Bailey Drew Sok (born on February 24, 2004) is a young professional dancer, celebrity choreographer, dance teacher, actress and an amateur golfer from Orange Country, California with Korean roots.
| Bailey Drew Sok | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Age | 16 |
| Birthdate | February 24, 2004 |
| Nationality | Korean-American |
| Hometown | Orange Country, California |
| Height | 5' 5" |
| Eye Color | Brown |
| Hair Color | Brown |
| School Grade | 10th (19/20) |
| Professional Information | |
| Profession | Celebrity Choreographer Dancer Actress Golfer |
| Affiliations | S-Rank World of Dance |
| Dance Studios | Dance Precisions Just Plain Dancin' |
| Titles | see below |
| Friends and Family | |
| Parents | Judie Sok (mother; former Miss Korea) |
| Siblings | Kylie Sok Britney Sok |
| Friends | Jessalyn Hall Peyton Heitz Molly Long Coco Quinn Kaylee Quinn Rihanna Quinn Ava Siniscalchi Reggie Valadez Kaycee Rice Sean Lew Lauren Wallingford |
| Pets | {{{pets}}} |
| Nicknames | {{{nicknames}}} |
Bailey gets first time public eye by performing with her partner Kida the Great in NBC's World of Dance season 4. She is also a social media personality and a viral star. Especially due her collaboration with Matt Steffanina and her friend Kaycee Rice, she is featured on many videos with millions of hits by name. In 2019, she left the shadows of her famous friends and got her own fame as an established international dancer teacher and choreographer.[1][2][3] She started also her debut as actress by playing Viv Anderson on Brat's TV series Zoe Valentine season two.[4]
She performed on season 9 of America's Got Talent with her group Buns & Roses, but they had withdrawn during judgement week for performing on a dance competition.[5][6][7] In 2018, she competed with S-Rank in season two of NBC's World of Dance in the Upper Team division between the adults with just 13 years old at show beginning and they made it the world final. But Bailey showed always some maturity beyond her age. That's why she properly loves hanging out with the older guys. She performed on stage together with Janet Jackson, Meghan Trainor, Alessia Cara, Jason Derulo, Marshmello and choreographed also to his song "Happier", Sofia Carson on Radio Disney's ARDYs, K Camp in his music video Lottery (Renegade)[8] and Steve Aoki.[9] She was an interview guest on Dance Network's To the Pointe [10] and Showstopper.
She started dancing when she was 2.5-3 years old, because her sisters used to dance. Her mother got the offer in her first dance class for Bailey's siblings "Pay for two kids and you get for one free." and she shoved Bailey to the group. Her first class was tap dancing. Bailey was first on stage when she was five years old, took her first industrial classes at the age of six and started competing at the age of six. She met her best friend Kaycee Rice first time in Tricia Miranda's class when they were performing "Anaconda" at the age of ten; this video passed 40M+ views at Feb 2019.[11] She was a competitive dancer for Dance Precisions before she moved to Just Plain Dancin'.
She is supporting Red Cross Australia for the bush fire victims.[12] She started teaching classes to support charity on different occasions.
Bailey got online home schooled since she is in 10th grade due her missing time when was on The Pulse on Tour. She lost temporary her work permission by that, despite her good grades and decided to switch to home schooling. She is fine with that and appreciates the flexibility of school schedules. She wants to go to college, but had in December 2018 no plans about her occupation later. She is currently taking classes in acting and vocal training. Bailey is improving her dancing by taking more technical classes in ballet and contemporary as well. Her dance background is performing mostly hip-hop, lyrical, jazz and tap dancing and she got strongly influenced by her teacher and later team leader of S-Rank Melvin Timtim.
Her older sisters stopped competing and started a career as professional golfers and go to a sports college for it. Bailey plays golf too, since she was five and it has become her second passion. Sometimes she got a good deal on the course; exchanging pro golfers versus pro dancers secrets.
In Feb 2019, Bailey danced on one of Matt's class routines on a video with 20M+ views and two more videos with about 10M+ headlining her name. YouTube listed about 20 videos with 1M+ views featuring her name and many more without she is is performing on it. Bailey contributed also with her team of professional dancers - Ellen Kim, Stevie Doré and Eileen Harman - the matrix as dancing heroes for the official music video and the onfly CGI addon opening show of the 2018 world finals of the e-sports game "League of Legends" with 173M+ views and the behind-the-scene dance video by them within 7M+ views within 3.5 months.[13][14] - The world final 2019 of the game attracted more viewers than the Super Bowl und is expected to get bigger. [15] A fantastic opportunity for professional dancers, because the shows are adequated. Either physical, as CGI addon or as hologram. - Bailey had 1.3M+ followers on Instagram and about 200K+ subscribers on YouTube at the end of 2019.
In 2017, she was nominated for the Industry Dance Awards for favorite dancer 17 & under, together with Mackenzie Ziegler, Kalani Hilliker, Tate McRae, Kaycee Rice and the winner Nia Frazier. In that same year, she competed on Dance-Off Juniors season 2 episode 1 against Leah Roga and the winner Charlize Glass.
In 2019, she won a Arena Award in the category "Rising Star of the Year." She was nominated together with Sean Lew, Emma Portner and Logan Edra. This award recognizes the dancer with the highest degree of artistic excellence (performance and/or choreography) as a visible newcomer into our dance community from 2018 to present. Nominees in this category have much artistic promise as the future of dance community. She co-choreographed with Jang Seoyoung the music video 'EMPIRE' by WENGIE ft. MINNIE [16] shortly before which passes 10M+ views in Aug 2020. She also co-choreographed her first music video for Red Velvet to the song "Psycho". [17] which passed 36M+ views in just one week.[18] [19] But she was already part of the "skeleton crew" for Red Velvet's music video "Realy Bad Boy" in 2018. She performed on two concept videos of the The Kinjaz's Sakura project. [20] [21] While still 15 years old, she taught in this year classes or had workshops at least in Australia - and had literally with Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane a full continental tour [22] [23] [24] - Korea, Portugal, Japan and as part of the faculty of Europe's biggest convention Play Fair Dance Camp in Cracow, Poland and had a nice show case there, as well as in Singapore. She played Viv Anderson on season two of Brat's TV series Zoe Valentine and showed real talent for acting.
In 2020, she is co-starring on KSI's new music video Poppin (feat Lil Pump & Smokepurpp).[25], because physical age doesn't count for Bailey she may enter a club too. She choreographed for Disney's new dance series On The One! the episode two and performed with some friends on it.[26] She was competing also in NBC World of Dance with Kida the Great, which was taped before the coronavirus quarantine and they got 3rd in Semi Final. But Jennifer Lopez eulogized them with "they are two of the most talented dancers we have seen out here" and she will follow their careers on Instagram anyways, like 100K of Bailey's new followers added within two weeks. However, like for most dancers nowdays Bailey got the coolers too, because she was booked as part of the faculty of the prestigious Urban Dance Camp in Lörrach, Germany. But the travel ban for US citizens by the EU due coronavirus messed it up to be the youngest teacher, who has ever taught at the UDC (breaking Dylan Mayoral's record with 17) and to get finally out of the quarantine cage for teaching choreography up to 100 mostly professional dancers and choreographers from over 40 countries around the world in the annual 4-8 weeks intensive workshops. [27] As small comfort former UDC superstar Keone Madrid choreographed for Bailey & Kida the concept video "HIT A LICK" and celebrates Keone & Mari Madrid's new dance studio, as well as his one-year-old daughter Numah's first superpower by announcing her new online stretching class.[28] Conclusion, despite coronavirus quarantine "The Incredibles", Bailey & Kida stay busy "and if everyone is super no one will be!" So it is not suprising Bailey got the opportunity choreographing for Lee Tae-min (김태우) (Shinee, SuperM) dance solo of his music video "IDEA".[29], got flattered being chosen by SMTown along with Keone Madrid, Ian Eastwood and Kasper (김태우 92/5/24) choreographing music videos and leveled up to celebrity choreographer.
Dances
Solos
| Year | Dance Name | Dance Style | Competition | Place Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Don't Upset the Rhythm | Jazz | KAR (Claremont) | 3rd in Secondary 8 & Under Solos |
| 2013 | Inside the Tornado | unknown | Starpower Nationals (Orlando) | 4th in Power 8 & Under Solos |
| Rhythm Nation | Jazz | Starpower Nationals (Orlando) | entered in competition | |
| Starpower (Pomona) | 3rd in Petite Diamond Solos | |||
| 2014 | Bulletproof | unknown | KAR (Redondo Beach) | 3rd in Secondary 9-11 Solos |
| Cooties | Jazz | Thunderstruck (Long Beach) | 2nd in Petite Shining Star Solos | |
| KAR (Claremont) | 3rd in Primary 8 & Under Solos | |||
| Starpower (San Diego) | 4th in Power 8 & Under Solos | |||
| Showbiz (Riverside) | 10th in Petite Solos |
Trios
| Year | Dance Name | Dance Style | Other Dancers | Competition | Place Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | It's in His Kiss | Jazz | Ava Siniscalchi Lauren Wallingford |
Starpower (San Diego) | 1st in Power 8 & Under Duo/Trios |
| Thunderstruck (Long Beach) | 1st in Petite Shining Star Duo/Trios | ||||
| Showbiz (Riverside) | 9th in Petite Duo/Trios | ||||
| 2013 | Wind it Up | Jazz | Peyton Heitz Kaylee Quinn |
Starpower (Lakewood) | 1st in Age 8 & Under Power Duet/Trios |
World of Dance
Keep in mind, these scores represent S-RANK's scores.
| Qualifiers ("One Time Comin") | |
|---|---|
| Ne-Yo | 92 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 91 |
| Derek Hough | 90 |
| AVERAGE | 91 |
| Duels Round ("Drop It Like It's Hot") | |
|---|---|
| S-RANK | 94.3 |
| ThaMOST | 85 |
| The Cut ("DNA") | |
|---|---|
| Ne-Yo | 91 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 93 |
| Derek Hough | 93 |
| AVERAGE | 92.3 |
| Divisional Final ("Gas Pedal") | |
|---|---|
| Ne-Yo | 96 |
| Misty Copeland | 93 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 94 |
| Derek Hough | 93 |
| AVERAGE | 94 |
| World Final Dance #1 ("Headband") | |
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| Ne-Yo | 91 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 95 |
| Derek Hough | 93 |
| AVERAGE | 93 |
| World Final Dance #2 ("It's Goin' Down") | |
| Ne-Yo | 94 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 94 |
| Derek Hough | 94 |
| AVERAGE | 94 |
| GRAND TOTAL AVERAGE | 93.5 |
S-RANK finished in last place.
In 2020, Bailey competed with Kida the Great as Bailey & Kida and got 3rd in Semi Final. They formed a duet just for the show. After a short interview the entered the audition hall and were surprised when they were auditioning directly in front of Jennifer Lopez, Derek Hough and Ne-Yo in this season, like all other participants, and faced the new scoreless system for the first two rounds with a possible callbacks. All three judges agreed there have huge potential and let them pass. In the duels they impressed with an isolated performance, which made the majority of the judges to vote for them instead of James & Harris, who are excellent contemporary dancers. And in the semi finals they got eliminated by MDC3, who won later the show and $1,000,000 USD and Oxygen as second with own 93 points average, according past scoring system. However, Bailey & Kida were the most popular act on the show and the laudation by the judges, including by Steven "Twitch" Boss, had famed their talent.
| The Qualifies ("Off the Rip") | |
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| Ne-Yo | 
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| Jennifer Lopez |
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| Derek Hough |
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| AVERAGE |
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| Duels Round ("Iris") | |
|---|---|
| Bailey & Kida | |
| Ne-Yo |
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| Jennifer Lopez | 
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| Derek Hough |
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| James & Harris | |
| Ne-Yo |
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| Jennifer Lopez |
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| Derek Hough |
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| The Semi Finals | |
|---|---|
| Bailey & Kida ("Momma I Hit a Lick") | |
| Ne-Yo | 91 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 93 |
| Derek Hough | 93 |
| AVERAGE | 92.3 |
| MDC 3 ("This Woman’s Work”) | |
| Ne-Yo | 94 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 98 |
| Derek Hough | 98 |
| AVERAGE | 96.7 |
| Oxygen ("Toccata”) | |
| Ne-Yo | 98 |
| Jennifer Lopez | 97 |
| Derek Hough | 94 |
| AVERAGE | 96.3 |
Dance Titles
- The Pulse Protégés Elite Alumni since season 2016/2017 (lifetime title) [30][31]
- Regional Petite Miss Showbiz 2013
- Regional WCDE Elite Mini Dancer 2014
Runner-Up Titles
- 4th runner up for Regional Petite Miss Dance KAR 2012 with "Don't Upset the Rhythm"
- 2nd runner up for Regional Junior Miss Super Star 2013
- 2nd runner up for National Petite Miss Starpower 2013 with "Rhythm Nation"
- 1st runner up for Regional Junior Miss Dance KAR 2014 with "Bulletproof"
- 2nd runner up for National WCDE Elite Mini Female Dancer of the Year 2014
- 3rd runner up for World of Dance
Awards and nominations
| Year | Title | Category | Nominated | Result | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Industry Dance Awards | Dancers Choice Award - Favorite dancer 17 & under |
Bailey Sok | Nominated | [32] |
| 2019 | Arena Awards | Rising Star of the Year | Bailey Sok | Won | [33] |
Filmography
TV Acting Roles
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Neighborhood Kiddos | Sara | But the series never launched successfully. |
| 2019 | Zoe Valentine | Viv Anderson |
8 episodes of season 2 Plot: High school freshman Zoe Valentine, starring Anna Cathcart, struggles to define her own identity at school and home after the loss of her sister to cancer. Bailey played regular Viv as green, left, project-oriented school mate of Zoe, who candidated for school council vice-president and got elected. Viv is dating Brody Clemens, played by Diego Velazquez, Zoe's long time best friend and fellow magic enthusiast, artist and Zoe got a little jealous. But at the end Viv and Zoe became friends. Actually good playing by Bailey for an acting beginner. Complex role, lot of text, strong character expression of the self-confident Viv. |
TV Dance Performances
| Year | Show | Celebrities | Role | Other Dancers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Marielle Mondays BTS Superhero Girls |
Marielle Caldwell | Dancer | Tessa Bella Marielle Caldwell Sierra Neudeck Malia Tinay |
Choreography: Matt Steffanina, Dana Alexa Season 1 Episode 10 [34] |
| Marielle Mondays BTS B.A.M All the Way Up |
Marielle Caldwell Aiden Prince Xiong |
Choreography: Dean Bais Season 1 Episode 22 [35] |
Online Networks
| Platform | Network | Hosts | Subjects | Other Guests | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Release Date | |||||
| YT | 2018.12.04 | Dance Network - To the Pointe | Kristyn Burtt | Bailey Sok - Her background, goals, World of Dance and more. | none | [36] |
Gallery
Videos
Dance-Off Juniors
Showstopper
World of Dance
Tik Tok/Musical.ly
Quotes
By Bailey
- "choices become actions, actions become habits, habits become character. 💎" [37] - The original quote is from China: Be careful of your thoughts! Thoughts become choices, choices become actions, actions become habits, habits become character. Be careful of your thoughts! You will become what you think! - Well Bailey, good thoughts until now. ;-)
Fun Facts
- Bailey has a talent to twist her arms and hands against joint direction. She used it as a joke and show effect on the World of Dance "The Cut" performance with a nice cracking noise and Jennifer Lopez, Derek Hugh and Ne-Yo enjoyed the shocking effect. [38]
- Her mother was the Miss Korea.[39] Explains something :-).
- Bailey is "super popular" by her friends right now; because her best friend Kaycee Rice is keen to go to Australien one day and meet a Kangaroo, Koala or something there, and Bailey already did. Her friend Sean Lew is keen to collaborate with Keone Madrid one day and Bailey already did etc.
- In her free time she enjoys drawing, painting and baking.
References
- ↑ AMINE - RED MERCEDES | BAILEY WORKSHOP in Seoul
- ↑ Bailey Sok ★She's a B**ch ★ Fair Play Dance Camp 2019 ★
- ↑ Bailey Sok (Melbourne) | Joy X Missy Elliott | GROUNDED Moves
- ↑ Bailey Sok
- ↑ AGT Buns & Roses
- ↑ Buns and Roses dancers
- ↑ Buns & Roses on AGT
- ↑ K Camp - Lottery (Renegade) (Official Video)
- ↑ Artists Bailey Sok has performed with
- ↑ Bailey Sok Talks About Her Friendship With Kaycee Rice - To The Pointe with Kristyn Burtt
- ↑ Nicki Minaj - Anaconda - Choreography by Tricia Miranda ft @kaelynnharris | @nickiminaj @timmilgram
- ↑ Bailey' IG
- ↑ K/DA - POP/STARS (ft Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns) | Official Music Video - League of Legends
- ↑ K/DA - POP/STARS Dance - Behind the Scenes | League of Legends
- ↑ CNBC - This esports giant draws in more viewers than the Super Bowl, and it’s expected to get even bigger
- ↑ 'EMPIRE' by WENGIE ft. MINNIE
- ↑ Bailey IG
- ↑ Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Psycho' Performance Video
- ↑ Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Psycho' MV
- ↑ PROJECT SAKURA: "IF YOU EVER"
- ↑ Project Sakura: "One Touch"
- ↑ Bailey Sok X Midnight | KStar Studios Melbourne | GROUNDED Moves
- ↑ Bailey Sok (Sydney) | Joy X Missy Elliott | GROUNDED Moves
- ↑ Bailey Sok Dance Workshop @ Brisbane Australia
- ↑ KSI - Poppin (feat. Lil Pump & Smokepurpp) [Official Music Video
- ↑ Sofia Carson & R3HAB – I Luv U | Bailey Sok Choreography | On The One | Radio Disney
- ↑ Teachers of the UDC 2020
- ↑ Keone's IG Numah's stretching class
- ↑ Bailey's IG Lee Tae-min
- ↑ Protégés Elite Alumni
- ↑ The Pulse Alumni show 2014
- ↑ Industry Dance Awards 2018 for favorite dancer 17 & under
- ↑ 2019 Arena Awards • Rising Star
- ↑ Marielle Mondays Vlog #10 - Superhero Girls BTS w/ Matt Steffanina
- ↑ Marielle Mondays Vlog #22 - B.A.M All The Way Up Video BTS
- ↑ Bailey Sok Talks About Her Friendship With Kaycee Rice - To The Pointe with Kristyn Burtt
- ↑ Bailey's IG
- ↑ World of Dance Performance Kendrick Lamar's - DNA | S-Rank
- ↑ Bailey's Twitter bithday congarts mom