Sean Lew

Sean Lew (born on November 25, 2001 in Walnut, California, U.S.) is a young multi-talented professional dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, TV junior chef, actor, editor, creative director, model and a philanthropist, pianist and singer with Chinese and Japanese roots living in Los Angeles, California.

Sean Lew
Gender	Male
Age	17
Birthdate	November 25, 2001
Nationality	American
Hometown	Los Angeles, California
Height	5'7"
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black
School Grade	Class of 2016
Professional Information
Profession	Dancer Choreographer Dance Teacher Chef Actor Editor Creative Director Model
Affiliations	ImmaBEAST Co. MSA Agency
Dance Studios	IMMA Space (2017-present)
Titles	see below
Friends and Family
Parents	Miya Lew (Mother) Chuck Lew (Father) Janelle Genestra (Mama Beast) William Adams (Papa Beast)
Siblings	Sarah Lew Serris Lew
Friends	Victoria Caban Maddie Ziegler Eva Igo Bailey Sok Tahani Anderson Tatiana McQuay Kaycee Rice Charlize Glass Will Simmons Julian DeGuzman Gabe De Guzman Josh Price Kenneth San Jose Jayy Hancock Tessandra Chavez Deja Carter Autumn Miller
Pets	1 dog (Oreo)
Nicknames	Lewser

He started dancing when he was able to walk, took his first dance classes when he was four and started competing at the age of five. He got his first professional gig as dancer when he was eight years old on the Glee show. He won on Dance-Off Juniors season one episode eight, competed on season one of NBC's World of Dance as member of ImmaBEAST and on season two with his partner Kaycee Rice as Sean & Kaycee. As dancer he appeared on many TV shows, such as, on Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2012 and 2014, The Queen Latifah Show, on pay-TV on Breaking Through 2014 and The X-Factor. He was also interview guest concerning dance on NBC morning news, KTLA5 news and LA TV - The Zoo. He appeared on Sia's music short film video "The Greatest" with Maddie Ziegler. And coming soon, on the new Step-Up China musical together with Jade Cynoweth and Janelle Genestra.

He was also one of the important supporting members to help Janelle and her future husband William "WillDaBeast" Adams (surnames didn't change) founding IMMA in 2012/2013 and became a member of the crews ImmaBEAST and LilBEAST. Sean is considered as big influence-r on kid dancer talents today - as dancer, choreographer, teacher and mentor. For instance, he taught at THE LAB in West Covina and supported their dancers, who won season two of World of Dance and became hip-hop world champions in 2017.

He started choreographing at the age of ten 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 and Asia attending conventions and teaching master classes. But he already worked before with Janelle and Will on projects in China, Japan, 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.

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 or got transparent to the background. Later producers like MyTypo, TJ Lewis or Deja Carter filmed and edited his choreography with more production effort. His first dance master class teaching was filmed when he was 11. 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 carrier, but he considered the character roles he got as embarrassing. 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.

An other talent he is known for is cooking. He started cooking when he was seven years old and won on season one episode 13 of "Chopped Junior" $10,000 USD and been on season two by six episodes of charity fund raising "Rachael Vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off" . He loves cooking for family, friends and sometimes the whole company, but, of course, everyone is welcome to join and help preparing, washing and cleaning up.:-)

Sean plays Piano since he was six years old. Her won 2nd place at the Music Teachers Association of California when he was eight years old.

Dances

Solos

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Competition	Place Awards
2008	Leon King	Tap	unknown	Hall of Fame Dance Challenge	unknown
2009	Be My Baby Tonight	Tap	unknown	Hall of Fame Dance Challenge	unknown
2010	Sean's Song	Lyrical	unknown	Legacy Dance Championships	unknown
	Move Shake Drop	Hip-Hop	unknown	Legacy Dance Championships	unknown
	Jumping Jive	Tap	unknown	Legacy Dance Championships	unknown
2011	Friend Like You	Contemporary	Pauline Mata	NRG Dance Convention	2nd Place
2012	Earthquakey People	Hip-Hop	Mikey Trasoras	The Broadway Hollywood	2nd in Junior Solos
	Wonderful World	Contemporary	Pauline Mata	Starquest	1st Place
	This Moment	Open	Marco Cruz	KAR	1st Place
	unknown	Hip-Hop	unknown	MONSTERS OF HIP HOP BATTLE ADVANCED	1st Place
2013	It will Rain	Contemporary	Shannon Mather	The Pulse on Tour	Picked by Pulse Faculty to perform before awards
	Forget the Night	Hip-Hop	Sean Lew	National Hall of Fame Showdown Champion Dance	unknown
	Debonair	Open	Blake McGrath	National Hall of Fame Showdown Champion Dance	unknown
2014	Clean Bandit - Rather Be	Open	Sean Lew	The Pulse on Tour	Elite Protégé

Duets

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancer	Competition	Place Awards
2009	unknown	Ballroom - Rumba	unknown	Ria	Golden State Challenge	unknown
	unknown	Ballroom - Samba	unknown	Ria	Hollywood Dancesport Championships	Per Tee 1st Novice and Per Champion 1st prize Latin Dance
	unknown	Ballroom - Jive	unknown	Ria
	unknown	Ballroom - ChaCha	unknown	Ria
2010	unknown	Ballroom - Jive	unknown	Ria	Emerald Ball Dancesport Championships	1st in Latin Pre-Teen 1
	unknown	Ballroom - Samba	unknown	Ria
	unknown	Ballroom - ChaCha	unknown	Ria
	unknown	Ballroom - Rumba	unknown	Ria
	unknown	Ballroom - Paso Nova	unknown	Ria
2013	Boyfriend	Jazz	Shannon Mather	Autumn Miller	National Hall of Fame Showdown Champion Dance	unknown
					Countdown (Fallbrook)	unknown
					JUMP (Los Angeles)	1st in Junior Duet/Trios

Trios

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancers	Competition	Place Awards
2008	Tic Tac Toe	Hip-Hop	unknown	Sarah Lew Serris Lew	Hall of Fame Dance Challenge	unknown
	I Can Do That	Tap	unknown	Sarah Lew Serris Lew	Hall of Fame Dance Challenge	unknown
2012	Proud Mary	Jazz	Mika Mitsui	Alexa Jozuka Allison Tsai	Hollywood Connection	unknown
	THE FACE	Lyrical	Mika Mitsui	Alexa Jozuka Allison Tsai	Hollywood Connection	unknown

Groups

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancers	Competition	Place Awards
2008	Ease on Down	Jazz	unknown	Dellos Dance Studio Group	Starpower	unknown
	Oompa	Hip-Hop	unknown	unknown	Starpower	unknown
2010	This is Joint is Jumpin	Tap	unknown	unknown	Legacy Dance Championships	1st in Small Groups
	Military Madness	Tap	unknown	unknown	Legacy Dance Championships	1st in Large Groups

TV Competition Shows

America's Got Talent

In 2013, Sean auditioned in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre on season 8 of AGT, but the was not proceeding to the Vegas round. The audition was not televised.

Dance-Off Junior

In 2016, Sean won season one episode eight of Dance-Off Junior, against his friend William B. Simmons II and Skyler Sharp. He auditioned first round and impressed the judges Todrick Hall, Ladia Yates and Devon Werkheiser. Choreographer Matt Steffanina set up the choreography for next round for a trio and Sean won the competition and $5,000 USD due his shining, accentuated and controlled performance.

World of Dance

In 2017, he performed as member of ImmaBEAST with his crew members Josh Price, Will Simmons, Julian Deguzman, Josh Beauchamp, Jenna Alvarez, Reese Hatala, Nat Bebko, Tayler Reef, Sienna Lalau and Kerrynton Jones in the Junior Division on season one of NBC's World of Dance and were eliminated in The Cut. But their qualifying routine was completely "cut out" from the show and even their scores weren't announced. There is still a rehearsal video left of the routine. In The Duels they won against Mini Request, but neither opponent dancing was shown, nor their individual scores by judging. And in The Cut just their final score was shown and that they were eliminated. However, some members performed on season two. Josh Price became a member of S-Rank, Josh Beauchamp performed as Josh & Taylor with his partner Taylor Hatala, her 11 years old sister Reese Hatala with her new partner as LULAS - and got "cut out" again - and Sean with Kaycee Rice as Sean & Kaycee. Below are the scores of the rounds they participated in.

Qualifiers (Wall To Wall)
AVERAGE	unknown

Duels Round (Juice)
Mini Request	85.7
ImmaBEAST	86.0

The Cut (Look At Me Now)
AVERAGE	84.2

In 2018, on the NBC World of Dance show season 2 he performed with his partner Kaycee Rice 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. Both were contacted individually by different people to join the show, but at the beginning they declined. Sean, because of his experience of been "cut out" of the show, he didn't want experience it again. And Kaycee because she had no idea how do it alone. Later Sean changed his mind, considered participation and gave Kaycee a call if she minds to join as a duo. She said immediately "Yes!", but next two hours there was silence at the phone to process how to manage it in detail. They decided having not too much hope they would survive to next rounds and didn't prepare for more than just one round. They just wanted show case their performance skills and Sean's choreography. Sean made with Kaycee behind-the-scene documentaries during each round, how they choreographed and rehearsed four routines under time pressure and became best friends by that.

But they got huge laudation 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 into tears after Sean & Kaycee had the nerves to perform half of their qualifiers routine blindfolded in front of 8.5 million watchers (air day + 7 days) on national television later (taped 4 months before), making an huge impact in the dance community. Jenna Dewan stated in an interview later: "I swear to you, 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). Below are the scores of the rounds they participated in.

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 Elite Protégé 2013-2014
• Pulse Elite Alumni since 2013/2014 (lifetime title)
• Per Tee Novice and Per Champion Latin Dance Hollywood Dancesport 2009
• Pre-Teen Champion Latin Dance Emerald Ball Dancesport 2010
• Monster of Hip-Hop 2012
• 1st Overall Champion at the ASH Nationals

Awards and Nominations

Year	Title	Category	Nominated	Result	Refs
2018	Industry Dance Awards	Dancers Choice Award - Most fierce dancer under 18	Sean Lew	Nominated

Filmography

Television

TV Acting Roles

Year	Series/Movie/Film	Role	Notes
2014	See Dad Run	Hi-Def Boy #2	1 episode
	Sam & Cat	Hal	1 episode
	Penguins of Madagascar	Additional Voices
2016	Bizaardvark	Robbie	1 episode
	Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn	Jono	2 episodes

Online Platforms

Online Networks

Platform		Network	Hosts	Subjects	Other Guests	Notes
Name	Release Date
YT	2018.07.24	Dance Network - To the Pointe	Kristyn Burtt	Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice - Their backgrounds, goals, World of Dance and relations to other choreographers.	Sean Lew

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