Bailey Drew Sok (born on February 24, 2004) is a young professional dancer, celebrity choreographer, dance teacher, actress, model and an amateur golfer and a philanthropist from Orange Country, California with Korean roots.

Bailey Drew Sok

Gender Female
Age 18
Birthdate February 24, 2004
Nationality Korean-American
Hometown Orange County, California
Height 5' 5"
Eye Color Brown
Hair Color Brown
School Grade 12th (21/22)
Professional Information
Profession Choreographer
Dancer
Actress
Model
Golfer
Affiliations World of Dance
S-Rank
The Kinjaz
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
Gwen Choi
Coco Quinn
Kaylee Quinn
Rihanna Quinn
Ava Siniscalchi
Brianna Racewicz
Tate McRae
Reggie Valadez
Lauren Wallingford
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Bailey has been featured in many dance videos on YouTube that have gone viral and has been in music videos as well. She’s also been reposted by artist like Chris Brown, Timbaland, Cardi B, DJ Khalid and Billie Eilish. At the age of 15 she has become an international dancer teacher and choreographer.[1][2][3] She started her debut as an actress playing Viv Anderson on Brat's YouTube series Zoe Valentine during season two.[4]

She performed on season 9 of America's Got Talent with her group Buns & Roses.[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 teams. Bailey was the youngest member on her team being only 13 years old in her crew. S-Rank won their division and made it the world finals. She has performed with Janet Jackson, Meghan Trainor, Alessia Cara, Jason Derulo, Marshmello, who she co-choreographed with Matt to his song "Happier". She was in K Camp’s music video Lottery (Renegade)[8] and also performed with Sofia Carson and DJ Steve Aoki on Radio Disney's ARDYs.[9] Bailey was interviewed for Dance Network's To the Pointe [10] and Showstopper.

She started dancing when she was 2.5-3 years old. 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 was a competitive dancer for Dance Precisions before she moved to Just Plain Dancin'.

Bailey has been home schooled since she was in 8th grade. Bailey is also taking classes in acting and vocal lessons. Bailey is a versatile dancer having trained in ballet, lyrical, contemporary, jazz and tap. She’s now mostly focus on hip-hop. She was strongly influenced by her teacher and later team leader of S-Rank Melvin Timtim. Bailey plays golf too, since she was five and it has become her second passion.

In 2017, she was nominated for the Industry Dance Awards for favorite dancer 17 & under. In that same year, she competed on Dance-Off Juniors season 2 episode 1.

In 2018, Bailey got to work with Keone and Mari Madrid and danced in one of the scenes for their Ruth dance book.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. At just 14 years old Bailey got to work on a K/DA Pop/Stars Dance video for the hugely known League of Legends video game company and contributed with a 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.[11][12] - The world final 2019 of the game attracted more viewers than the Super Bowl. [13]

In 2019, Bailey won an award at the Arena Awards in the category "Rising Star of the Year." She co-choreographed with Jang Seoyoung the music video 'EMPIRE' by WENGIE ft. MINNIE of G-idle. [14] shortly before which passes 10M+ views in Aug 2020. She also co-choreographed her first music video for Red Velvet to the song "Psycho". [15] which passed 36M+ views in just one week.[16] [17] She performed on two concept videos of the The Kinjaz's Sakura project. [18] [19] While still 15 years old, she taught workshop classes in Australia - going to Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane a full continental tour [20] [21] [22] - she also taught classes in Korea, Portugal, Japan and as part of the faculty of Europe's biggest convention Fair Play Dance Camp in Krakow, Poland being their youngest teacher ever and performed a nice showcase there as well as in Singapore. She played Viv Anderson on season two of Brat's YouTube series Zoe Valentine and showed off her acting talent.

In 2020, she is co-starred on KSI's new music video Poppin (feat Lil Pump & Smokepurpp).[23], She has appeared in a Radio Disney commercial and choreographed for Disney's new dance series On The One! episode two. [24] She competed again in NBC World of Dance this time with Kida the Great, which was taped before the coronavirus quarantine. Their performance together gave Jlo the goosies. Their last performance on the show was choreographed by Keone Madrid. Bailey once again worked with Keone Madrid this time he worked with Bailey & Kida on a concept video "HIT A LICK" Bailey choreographed for Lee Tae-min's (김태우) (Shinee, SuperM) music video "IDEA".[25], SMTown along with Keone Madrid, Ian Eastwood and Kasper (김태우 92/5/24) Yet again Bailey choreographed for another Kpop's group SHINee's "Don't Call Me" music video. She was featured on the concept video for "K/DA – DRUM GO DUM mit Aluna, Wolftyla, Bekuh BOOM" which passed on November 21, 2020 1.4M+ views within 19 hours.

In 2021 Bailey filmed as the character Lucky for the upcoming movie Keep Moving The Movie.[26] Bailey also appeared in a scene with actress Kate Hudson on episode 3 of the Apple TV show Truth to be told. On April 9th. she taught her first class at the Millennium Dance Complex LA, being the youngest teacher they ever had at 17. [27] Bailey is also a model and has a paid sponsorship with Givenchy, Rayban,Samsung and Nike.[28] Bailey appeared in a Samsung commercial that ran internationally. Bailey also worked with Nike on a commercial ad. The Bailey x Nike commercial ad was played on a giant screen billboard at the Stables Center and also on 3 giant billboard screens in front of Stables Center in LA as well. Nike billboards She also became an official member of the group the Kinjaz and is among the first females to join along with being the youngest member they have had. As philanthropist she has helped to support Red Cross Australia, for the bush fire victims.[29] As well as making bake goods and donating her earnings from classes she has taught to support charities on different occasions. Bailey helped choreograph for the Korean newcomer girl group Aespa (에스파)[30] Savage music video passed 100M+ views in 20 days[31]. Bailey also choreographed for Kpop Kai’s Peaches music video along with Anthony Lee and Bada Lee. On October 2021, Bailey flew to Korea and stayed there for 3 months working on a secret project.

On February 2022, Bailey Sok appeared as the lead dancer in Tate McRae’s She’s All I Wanna Be music video.

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 Duo/Trios

World of Dance

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")
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 even though didn’t win the finals they still won the divisional finals and won some money.

In 2020, Bailey competed with Kida the Great as Bailey & Kida on NBC’s World of Dance.They made it to up to the semi finals.

The Qualifies ("Off the Rip")
Ne-Yo  
Jennifer Lopez  
Derek Hough  
AVERAGE  
Duels Round ("Iris")
Bailey & Kida
Ne-Yo  
Jennifer Lopez  
Derek Hough  
James & Harris
Ne-Yo  
Jennifer Lopez  
Derek Hough  
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) [32][33]
  • 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 [34]
2019 Arena Awards Rising Star of the Year Bailey Sok Won [35]

Quotes

By Bailey

  • "Work hard and be nice”, which is something her family as always instilled in her.

Fun Facts

  • Bailey has hyper mobility (double jointed) in her arms and hands. [36]
  • Her mother won the title of Miss Korea.[37]
  • In her free time she enjoys drawing, painting and baking.

Additional Pages

Bailey Sok/Gallery
Bailey Sok/Filmography

References

  1. AMINE - RED MERCEDES | BAILEY WORKSHOP in Seoul
  2. Bailey Sok ★She's a B**ch ★ Fair Play Dance Camp 2019 ★
  3. Bailey Sok (Melbourne) | Joy X Missy Elliott | GROUNDED Moves
  4. Bailey Sok
  5. AGT Buns & Roses
  6. Buns and Roses dancers
  7. Buns & Roses on AGT
  8. K Camp - Lottery (Renegade) (Official Video)
  9. Artists Bailey Sok has performed with
  10. Bailey Sok Talks To The Pointe with Kristyn Burtt
  11. K/DA - POP/STARS (ft Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns) | Official Music Video - League of Legends
  12. K/DA - POP/STARS Dance - Behind the Scenes | League of Legends
  13. CNBC - This e-sports giant draws in more viewers than the Super Bowl, and it’s expected to get even bigger
  14. 'EMPIRE' by WENGIE ft. MINNIE
  15. Bailey IG
  16. Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Psycho' Performance Video
  17. Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Psycho' MV
  18. PROJECT SAKURA: "IF YOU EVER"
  19. Project Sakura: "One Touch"
  20. Bailey Sok X Midnight | KStar Studios Melbourne | GROUNDED Moves
  21. Bailey Sok (Sydney) | Joy X Missy Elliott | GROUNDED Moves
  22. Bailey Sok Dance Workshop @ Brisbane Australia
  23. KSI - Poppin (feat. Lil Pump & Smokepurpp) [Official Music Video
  24. Sofia Carson & R3HAB – I Luv U | Bailey Sok Choreography | On The One | Radio Disney
  25. Bailey's IG Lee Tae-min
  26. keepmovingthemovie IG Bailey
  27. MDC's IG Bailey SOK
  28. Bailey's IG Nike 2
  29. Bailey' IG
  30. Bailey's IG Aespa
  31. aespa 에스파 'Savage' MV
  32. Protégés Elite Alumni
  33. The Pulse Alumni show 2014
  34. Industry Dance Awards 2018 for favorite dancer 17 & under
  35. 2019 Arena Awards • Rising Star
  36. World of Dance Performance Kendrick Lamar's - DNA | S-Rank
  37. Bailey's Twitter bithday congarts mom