Charlize Glass

Charlize Riley Glass (born on November 27, 2001 in California, US) is a professional dancer, choreographer, actress, model and fitness trainer with African, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Indian, Irish and French roots living in California.

Charlize Riley Glass
Gender	Female
Age	24
Birthdate	November 27, 2001
Nationality	American
Hometown	California
Height	5'2"
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black
School Grade	Class of 2020
Professional Information
Profession	Dancer Choreographer Actress Fitness Trainer Model
Affiliations	Manager societyeighteen Agency World of Dance Clear Talent Group 8 Flavahz DANCE DOME LA
Dance Studios	GLASSHOUSE LA Rage Complex Academy of Dance Westlake Village Soul Motion Movement Lifestyle
Titles	see below
Friends and Family
Parents	Leah deBolt (Mother) Charles Glass (Father)
Siblings	None
Friends	Maddie Ziegler Sean Lew Bailey Sok Larsen Thompson Autumn Miller Julian DeGuzman Kaycee Rice Big Will Simmons Gabe De Guzman Sage Rosen Dylan Mayoral
Pets	4 cats (Maggie, Luke, Sammy, and Zesty)
Nicknames	Char Char

Charlize has been dancing and taking dance classes since she was three years old, aimed a professional career very soon and is standing in front line of professional dancers of the new generation ever since.

As of February 2025, she performed on two Super Bowl halftime shows (2015 & 2025), at the Oscars (2025), toured twice with Nicki Minaj, one time with Maluma as their background dancer, performed on NBC World of Dance 2019 with Julian DeGuzman, got second in divisional final, and many more.

Beginning at 2008, at the age of six, she appeared on America Got's Talent and in 2010 on the BET Awards. In 2011, she got public eye by many events, such as, the MTV Video Music Awards, the finals of The Voice as guest, on series The Fresh Beat Band and So You Think You Can Dance. In 2012, she had been runner-up with her crew 8 Flavahz on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, and last-not-least, Beyoncé herself shared a video of the then–12-year-old dancer performing to "Yoncé" on Instagram, along with a simple caption: "WOW!" In 2014, the got the lead role on the short film Playground Politix. A year later she was performing on the TV broadcast with in 2025 fourth 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. On February 13, 2025, Char Char was performing on her second Super Bowl (LVI) halftime show with Kendrick Lamar. The show is currently with 127.7 million the most watched broadcast of TV watchers in American history. Shortly after that she performed with Queen Latifah to 'Ease on Down the Road' at the Oscars 2025.

She got world 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 views over the years, as well as, by starring on many convention videos organized of her mentor Brain Friedman, such as Radix Dance Fix, The Main Event, The PULSE etc, as his main assistent for some years - Dance Spirit Title Cover - How Charlize Glass Morphed From Baby to Beast On the Dance Floor. She appeared also on a string of music videos and on the Mean Girls movie in 2024.

Biography

Charlize visited a private school at the beginning, but due the schedule burdens of her dance career she switched partially to homeschooling and never liked it. She stated the working effort and self-discipline to keep on track to the end of the semester was unpleasant for her. Her grades in actual school were much better and it was harder to keep in contact to her school friends. She graduated in 2020 high school.

Her parents live separated and she lived predominantly with her mom and has permanent and good relationship with her father. She got her black lion's mane - her thick curly hair - she was famous for and was giving her that charismatic look by him. She described her mom as her biggest inspiration and gives her a lot of credit, because she was taking good care of her, despite her own extensive working time. She spends a lot of time with her friends as well, including her four and counting cats. She is obsessed with cats.

Although Charlize is a fierce monster on stage, is used to stand in front of the crowd, her strong appearance and that she is a cool, eloquent and strait forward shooter in interviews, in private she was quite the opposite. She has/had some phobias and didn't feel comfortable surrounded by people she didn't know. She appreciates her privacy and wants to retreat from public after the show. One of her favorite moments with Maddie, she was running away with Maddie Ziegler at a convention from Maddie's fans, who were rushing to them. But in February 2025, after two tours with Nicki Minaj, one with Maluma, two Super Bowl halftime shows and over three years with her boyfriend, we are assuming she is fully treated concerning her social anxiety disorder now. And if any proof is needed...

When she joined The Pulse on Tour on season 2014/2015 as Elite Protégé at the age of 12 she has had already a thumb thick productive and professional record in bag, despite the fact that this education was designed to get those afterwards.

She formed a close friendship to the currently world's most prominent kid dancer Maddie Ziegler at the Radix convention in 2016 and both are working permanently together as duet on many occasions. Her favorite dream collaboration is working with Travis Wall.

Charlize is trained in a various style of dancing - jazz, funk, ballet, contemporary and her strongest suit hip-hop. DanceSpirit wrote: "On a scale of one to Beyoncé, 13-year-old Charlize Glass is pretty darn Beyoncé. Watching Charlize dance is like flipping through a series of perfect snapshots—each isolation of her body is that precise and finessed." She is famous for her speedy fierce power style. She puts a lot of power in the accents with a brutal stop movement by her strong athletic body. This girl knows about Kung Fu. Her motions are sometimes so fast that 24 frames per second are not enough to catch her movements. And no need to explain what it means when her mentor the one and only Brian Friedman after all these years suddenly throw his shoes. She can flip her back backwards like a Kaycee Rice or a Sofie Dossi and is very versatile in ballet. She can execute her pirouettes with bowed knees like a figure skater (extremely difficult and exhausting). That much short head muscles have its price. Char Char is not the most flexible contemporary dancer. However, her speedy power hip-hop style slays everything and everyone in the clubs around the world and attracts a special type of client. Her artistic choice shows that she a great soul dancer. Match-up with Julian DeGuzman formed a duet with simular dance skills and Julian is a great choreographer as well. They are continuing to collaborate after NBC's World of Dance. Kyle Hanagami matched up Char Char with Josh Beauchamp for a music video of Justin Bieber and his concept video to Billie Eilish's "Your power" . And the experts are impressed by the expressive value about romance and relationship of the two handsomes.

In 2018, she was nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with Kaycee Rice, Sean Lew, JT Church and the winner Eva Igo.

In 2019, she performed on season three of NBC's World of Dance with her new partner Julian DeGuzman. They got second in Divisional Final.

In 2020, she is starting with her own dance studio THE GLASSHOUSE LA in Santa Clarita, CA.

In 2022, Char Char performed on MTV VMA 2022 and a headliner show in front of about 75,000 people at the Rolling Loud Festival 2022 New York with Nicki Minaj. Char Char is starring on new online blog season POPSUGAR Dance Fitness for four episodes on every Friday with a range of 6M+ subscribers.

In 2023, Charlize posted she is moving out in her new house, but it is not finished jet. So either she has overcome her financial troubles during COVID-19 pandemic or we have a subprime 2.0 here. She finally moved on May 30. Since August 31, Char Char was a permanent background dancer of Maluma's Don Juan World Tour in the North Amerika Tour until the end of the year.

On January 12, 2024 Char Char attended the premiere of comedy feature "Mean Girls" (trailer). She is one the core dancers being featured. - Mean Girls | Kyle Hanagami Featurette Since March 2024, she is background dancer again on Nicki Minaj’s Gag City US and Europe Tour 2024. And on day two Char Char was already credited by the Queen of Hip-Hop as her true GAG CITY SUPER HERO mama. Nicki was during a quick change let Charlize to take her dress shirt off. But then Nicki didn't want Charlize do it, because Char Char "is pro!!!", it's not her job and went to stage, but Charlize simple minded ran after her, stand a second on her right, and then ripped the dress off from her back during her second song on stage in full arena, vanished with it and appeared seconds later as her background dancer on her left. After that Char Char *adds to resume* magician, good under pressure and gag city super hero. On March 30, she performed first time with Nicki on a sold out show in Madison Square Garden, the "World's Number One Show Arena".

As of February 2025, Charlize had 880K+ Instagram followers, 1.3M+ TikTok followers and 98K+ subscribers on her YouTube channel. In March 2025, she started modeling for Nike X JD Sports US - Shots1, Shots2, Shots3. On April 9, she performed on the H&M & LA Spring/Summer 2025 Drop 2 Collection Launch.

Dances

Solos

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Competition	Place Awards
2011	We Are Who We Are	Jazz		Starpower Nationals (Las Vegas)	3rd in Power 9-11 Solos

World of Dance

Qualifiers (The Middle)
Ne-Yo	87
Jennifer Lopez	88
Derek Hough	86
AVERAGE	87

Duels Round (New Level)
Julian & Charlize	96	96	94	95.3
The Trilogy	89	90	91	90

The Cut (Murk)
Ne-Yo	94
Jennifer Lopez	94
Derek Hough	91
AVERAGE	93

Divisional Final (Bad & Boujee)
Ne-Yo	95
Jennifer Lopez	96
Derek Hough	96
AVERAGE	95.7

Dance Titles

• Pulse Elite Protégé 2014-2015
• Pulse Elite Alumnus since 2014/2015 (lifetime title)

Accolades, Awards and Nominations

Year	Title	Category	Nominated	Result	Refs
2013	Industry Dance Awards	Dancers Choice Award - Favorite Dance Crew	8 Flavahz	Nominated
2016	Industry Dance Awards	Dancers Choice Award - Favorite Dancer 17 & Under	Charlize Glass	Nominated
2018	Industry Dance Awards	Dancers Choice Award - Most fierce dancer under 18	Charlize Glass	Nominated

8 Flavahz

In 2011, Char Char met twin sisters Tiara and Tamara, Camren, Summer, Kaelynn, Jaira, and Angel at a dance convention in Los Angeles. Tiara, Tamara, Camren, and Summer are originally from Hawaii and were part of a group called the Flavahs Crew, a previous version of 8 Flavahz. The other four girls, including Charlize, are native Californian. Their Hawaiian counterparts asked them if they wanted to form a dance group together to compete at ‘World of Dance Hawaii’. They agreed, and the eight dancers subsequently participated in the competition under the name Flavahs and Friends, eventually finishing in the third place. Tiara, Tamara, and Summer were also part of a second group, 24VII Danceforce, which ultimately won the competition. Afterwards, they decided to rename the group as the 8 Flavahz.

The four Hawaiian girls, as part of the Flavahs Crew, had unsuccessfully auditioned for the sixth season of ‘America's Best Dance Crew’ in 2011. In 2012, in the seventh season of the show, the new group fared much better. Competing against nine other groups, they excelled in almost every round and eventually emerged as the first runner-up. There still exists a LQ Complitation Weeks 1 - 10, The entire season 7 is still online in much better quality, Some shots before the ABDC S7 final in 2012.

Since then, Charlize and the rest of the girls have made a number of appearances in music videos and TV shows, sometimes as a group, and at other times, as individual dancers. Glass performed in the music videos for Willow Smith’s ‘Whip My Hair’ (2010), Mindless Behaviour’s ‘Girls Talkin’ Bout’ (2011), Sophia Grace’s ‘Girls Just Gotta Have Fun’ (2013), and Maejor Ali, Juicy J, and Justin Bieber’s ‘Lolly’ (2013).

Online Networks

Platform		Network	Hosts	Subjects	Other Guests	Notes
Name	Release Date
YT	2019.04.19	Dance Network - To the Pointe	Kristyn Burtt	Why Julian & Charlize Loved The Duels on 'World of Dance’ - Their World of Dance expierences, how they met and the choreography of Julian, school burdens and fan perspectives.	Julian DeGuzman

Contact

charchar1127@gmail.com

Personal Life

As of Feb 2025, Char Char is dating someone at least since November 2022 , with college degree at the Boise State University in 2024.

Quotes

About Charlize

• "Josh (Josh Beauchamp) and Charlize are two of the best dancers I know ..." - Kyle Hanagami on BTS Billie Eilish Concept Video
• "She's nuts." - Jennifer Lopez about Charlize' WoD season 3 Divisonal Final performance with Julian DeGuzman

Fun Facts

• Charlize used to be a competitive gymnast before she became a bodybuilder. Nice add-ons for her dance career.

Additional Pages

Charlize Glass/Gallery

External Links

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