Kaycee Rice

Kaycee Caitlin Rice (born on October 21, 2002 in Woodland Hills, California, U.S.), is a professional dancer, choreographer, actress, model, personal health & fitness trainer (NASM certified), entrepreneur (one-woman company phase), social media personality and a philanthropist living in Los Angeles, California.

Kaycee Caitlin Rice
Gender	Female
Age	23
Birthdate	October 21, 2002
Nationality	American
Hometown	Los Angeles, California
Height	5'2"
Eye Color	Brown/Hazel/Green Mix
Hair Color	Brown
School Grade	Class of 2021
Professional Information
Profession	Dancer Choreographer Actress Model Health & Fitness Trainer Entrepreneur
Affiliations	Jam Republic Agency Daniel Hoff Agency Bloc Talent Agency ImmaBEAST Co. Weirdo Apparel (clothing) Evolove (hair care)
Dance Studios	Studio 13 Dance Studio (2009-2016) Candy Apple's Dance Center (guest) Millennium Dance Complex
Titles	see below
Friends and Family
Parents	Laura Rice (Mother) Brad Rice (Father, CEO & Founder - Real Estate & Tech Investment) Janelle Ginestra* (former Mama Beast) William Adams* (former Papa Beast); * got divorced in 2022
Siblings	Kylie Rice Devon Rice
Friends	Victoria Caban Haley Huelsman Eva Igo Ashtin Roth Chloe Smith Tessa Wilkinson Shengela Laquifa Wadley McKenzie Morales Bailey Sok Tahani Anderson Tati McQuay Sean Lew Charlize Glass Big Will Simmons Gabe De Guzman Julian DeGuzman Vivien Lopez Bailey Dean Holt Jade Chynoweth Tricia Miranda Tessandra Chavez Matt Steffanina Brain Fridman JoJo Gomez Taylor Hatala Marissa Temme Amari Smith Maddie Ziegler Audrey Lane-Partlow GiaNina Paolantonio Jenna Alvarez Mackenzie Jarrett Lukas McFarlane Deavion Brown Hannah Sandilands Steven Thompson
Pets	owned a dog (Lulu), ✝ at 16 (75 dog years) 1 family dog (Kino) ✝ on Easter 2024 new puppy dog (Beanie) since September 2, 2023
Nicknames	Weirdo, Munch, Munche

At the age of 10, Kaycee did a "Werk" routine for a national dance competition, choreographed by former star dancer Tricia Miranda, which she won. Pop singer Katy Perry somehow found the YouTube video of her very first hip-hop solo ever four months later and tweeted it to about 38,000,000 of her followers. After then she became an overnight internet sensation. She was the first dance kid ever went viral by a non-televised competition video and inspired the youth in 2013. She got immediately interviewed by CNN, appeared on the Queen Latifah Show and some national newspapers and magazines wrote articles about her, plus an exclusive interview with her entire family by UK's DailyMail. The singer of the performance song Werqin Girl, Shengela Laquifa Wadley, visited her in Simi Valley at Studio 13 Dance, which her mom owned, to thank her for enormous boost in record selling.

Kaycee danced for TV shows, movies, music and concept videos, classes and conventions assistance, teaching, commercials and live stage performances. Since joining IMMA in 2014, she is considered full professional, in the sense of child labor laws allowed it. She left IMMA about end of 2018. She was a member of the dance companies Studio 13 Project Team, Lilbeast, Immabeast, and THE PULSE on Tour, where she had studied three seasons as PULSE Elite Protégé under some of world's best in business together with many other prodigies, who are still considered industry world class today and became her close friends as well. - The PULSE Experience - Go Behind The Scenes with The PULSE On Tour - As of 2016, PULSE instructors consist of Brian Friedman, Cris Judd, Dave Scott, Gil Duldulao, Brooke Lipton, Ian Eastwood, Tricia Miranda, Tucker Barkley, Jillian Meyers, Tessandra Chavez, Kyle Hanagami, Kayla Radomski, and Megan Lawson. Previous guest teachers have included Will "Willdabeast" Adams and Laurieann Gibson, amongst others. She graduated as THE PULSE Elite Alumna in 2016.

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. She worked intensively with Tricia Miranda, Brian Friedman, Matt Steffanina, Zoi Tatopoulos, Nicka Kljun, Jojo Gomez, Jake Kodish, Alexander Chung, Kyle Hanagami, Tessandra Chavez, Galen Hooks, Dexter Carr, Janelle Ginestra, William Adams, Blake McGrath, Dominic Sandoval, and many more.

With the age of 15, Weirdo has had already a thumb thick productive and professional record, with a level of summarizing highlights that many professional dancers cannot match at the end of their careers, such as; performing on the TV broadcast with in 2025 now the 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 with the age of 12; she's also been on the Oscars (2014) with Pharrell Williams and featured in the music video for "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor (2.2 billion hits in 2018) with the age of 11. Performing on the stage with Justin Bieber at the age of 13; and many more. In 2018, she announced trying to get more focus on an acting career in future, but dancing remains her main passion. She wants to be on a movie or getting a permanent role in a TV series and is working hard for it to get there. Since November 3, 2023, she is starring with the ZooNation company on the released Message in a Bottle dance musical feature.

Kaycee was a guest dancer on the fifth season of Dance Moms and Nickelodeon's School of Rock TV series and Fuller House. She got her first acting main role on Disney's short film How to Catch a Ghost and was playing regular Avery James in Brat TVs new series Sunnyside Up in season 1.

She wants also to be a writer, creative in dance and create her own business, travel one day to Australia and Japan, teach and travel around the world soon, meet new people and inspire others. In 2022, regarding her own HP, she is considering herself as an actress now, most likely due projects to which those haven't gone public yet. On April 2023, she said her priority of her most favorite activities and she feels also comfortable about are performing before teaching before choreographing before taking class before free styling.

She did commercials, for instance, for Walmart and Anti-Vaping. She won a Nike sneaker design competition and beat out other kids like actress Jules LeBlanc and got Nike to sponsor and produced her sneaker design - Weirdo and Nike let her run her own campaign to promote the Nike Weirdo sneakers. Kaycee has a diverse portfolio with dozens of past partnerships on social media - from tech companies including AT&T, Google and Dell, over broadcasters such as FOX, Netflix and Radio Disney, over beauty brands YSL Beauty and Givenchy Beauty, to athletic lifestyle brands such as FILA and Nike.

She got the nickname "Weirdo" by her mom to describe the not normal behavior of her daughter, which she accepted and made it to her personal philosophy - "Be yourself and be weird." aka have self-esteem and be self-confident and don't care what others think. It seems that Kaycee was a busily student of Bruce Lee's philosophy. She runs a small clothing line by the brand Weirdo Apparel had first the slogan "Weirdo - Just be you.". She sells self-created hair products by the brand Evolove, too. She runs also a cooperative YouTube channel with Sean Lew - where they ran shows like Sean Lew Approved and XTRA, but it got inactive by their lack of free time due their schedule burdens.

Weirdo got online home schooled since 6th grade and got A-s straight in first semester of 10th grade, showing she has much more to offer than just a high career IQ. However, among the Rice siblings everyone agreed that Kaycee was worst in school of them. Her favorite subject was math. She finds it quite challenging. She also started writing poems in 2018. She graduated in 2018 as ten grade with 15 by a CHSPE test, which by state law is equivalent to a high school diploma, because she wanted to work in the industry as legally teen. Otherwise she needed to have due California Child Labor Laws frequently breaks on sets etc. By the way, her school wanted her to skip first grade and move up to second, but her parents didn't want her to do it.

Kaycee's parents and choreographers conventionalized her to keep ground-standing. If she wants to compare with someone else, she should trying the girl in the mirror or on video. But that was exactly what led to her popularity. Always smiling, in good mood and supportive. She is trying to keep a permanent positive outlook to the world. Her new dance partner Sean Lew said about her "Try bowling with her. She left a trail of glitter and unicorns!" Kindness is her number one must-have feature; for herself and others. This got public interest, because people were asking how a shy and innocent girl deals with the fact, that she was suddenly dragged into an huge spotlight of public eye by Katy Perry's tweet without asking. But she took it cool and ground-standing when "the microphones were pressed in her face" since she was ten. She had never hard feelings about that. On the contrary, she is very thankful that Katy launched her career, mined so many opportunities for her and to quote "being on a crazy ride" ever since.

Kaycee also dances for many years as a philanthropist for organizations such as iDance4aCure, and supporting to fight childhood cancer. Due her engagement and popularity, and those of many other dancers and choreographers, the funds rise very well, financing research and treatments for children with cancer and she personally has had spent some time with kids diagnosed cancer. Other engagements by her went public are Muscular Dystrophy Association , the BornThisWay/ Foundation, Camp Fire Victims, DonorsChoose and the former Lily Sarah Grace Foundation, which supported once to establish practicing arts in classrooms, for cognitive development.

Kaycee began dancing and competing when she was five years old. Her mother founded "Studio 13" in Simi Valley, where Kaycee grow up, when she was seven years old, to keep up with her basic training; and had to close it seven years later at August 31, 2016 for multiple reasons. Kaycee went daily strait after school (before homeschooling) to the studio for training. Sometimes until late into the evening when her mom was closing the studio. She choreographed first time at the age 12 for two of her own hip-hop solos in the studio. Today she said that she doesn't consider herself a great hip-hop choreographer, and therefore she doesn't want to teach hip-hop prime, but thinks she is a great contemporary choreographer and instructor, she is also passionate about, and where she has more a stand-alone feature in LA.

She is trained in various styles of dancing - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and lyrical. Her strongest suit is contemporary. She also trained doing tumbling and acro. Her favorite style was tap when she was younger. But she loves actually all styles of dancing and finds challenging to adapt on different styles. She often performed in a style she calls hip-hop fusion, where she mixed elements of other styles with hip-hip, such as ballet, contemporary or urban dance. Her former partner Gabe De Guzman described: "She picks up choreography really quickly—and she can do any style of dance you throw at her." And Dance Spirit wrote: "Armed with limitless flexibility and a natural expressive quality, Kaycee carved out her place in the competition world as a versatile technical dancer." Her back flexibility combined with her without-first-sign spin and turn combinations with smooth transitions ending in accentuated fierce moves with not too much power became to a kind of trademark of her dance. Derek Hough, who was not used to watch Kaycee stated in The Duels round of World of Dance Season 2: "First of all, your back bend over there, the moment ... *showing move* ... the turn around, was sick, absolute stunning!" She made a stretching routine video, to show how she kept that flexibility. Gabe described her with "She's like Elastigirl from The Incredible. She's that flexible." Her new partner Sean Lew stated: "She has no bones." But actually he should know better after experiencing Weirdo's martial arts unplugged - she has a Blue Belt in Tae Kwan Do - during rehearsals of World of Dance by getting it twice in the testicles and one time straight in his head with her leg, of course accidentally.

According Tricia Miranda's rule "Stop dancing! Start performing!" she is going into class with the attitude, she is on stage and never is holding back. Weirdo is watching the mirror to the minimum and gets full focus on the camera in front of her. That's why on hundreds of videos she is performing she looks like live-on-stage show casing. Soon people are realizing that headlining new videos by "ft. Kaycee Rice" or showing her performing in first frame could be always good for a couple millions of additional hits. - One million views equals to at least $2,000 USD income as a YouTube Partner Program member. - Those have given Kaycee a permanent viral phenomenon beginning at the end of 2016 when her mother had to shut down the studio and she massively took filmed classes in LA. And since working together with Sean as duet, they both doubled their individual popularity. Dance Spirit wrote after an interview with her: "I don't feel like I'm a big star," she says. "I'm just a normal person, who loves what she does, and loves sharing it with the world." By quantity and variety of dances and of getting attention, Kaycee and some other kid dancers are literally a big economical influence on many video editors by making compilation and reaction videos from other videos of or by her, and those increase her popularity again.

In 2017, she was nominated for the Industry Dance Awards for favorite dancer 17 & under, together with Mackenzie Ziegler, Kalani Hilliker, Tate McRae, Bailey Sok and the winner Nia Frazier. At the end of the year, statistically in 2017, she is shown on 6 of the top 50 (12%) most viewed first release dance videos published on YouTube in 2017.

In 2018, she competed with Sean Lew in season two of NBC's World of Dance and they were both eliminated before the finals. Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with Charlize Glass, JT Church and the winner Eva Igo. As absolute surprise must be considered her nomination for a Streamys Award - The Oscars of Web - in the category Dance together with 1 million Dance Studio, Dytto (Courtney Nicole Kelly), Kyle Hanagami and the winner Matt Steffanina. With still 15 years old she also started teaching her first dance classes with her own choreography. All of her first three classes were sold out in advance. Two months later she was a co-/assistant choreographer for Janelle Ginestra for Red Velvet's new music video "Really Bad Boy". At the end of the year, statistically in 2018, her fans were able to watch every fourth day a new taped dance by her (about 90 in total) and she is shown on 12 of the top 100 (12%) most viewed first release dance videos published on YouTube in 2018.

In 2019, she won a Shorty Award in the category "Best in Dance". She was nominated together with Auti Kamal, Brittany Cavaco, Chelsie Hill, Cynthia Irobunda, Dytto, Fik-Shun, Jade Chynoweth, Justin Peck, Omar Z. Robles, Shiggy and The Kinjaz in her category. On the same day she was performing the NBC World of Dance World Final intermezzo show on season three on air together with Sean Lew and Ian Eastwood while NE-YO was singing on stage. They got the honor to be in line with dance legends like Les Twins, Keone & Mari Madrid, Derek Hough, The Kinjaz, The Lab, Charity Anderson & Andres Peñate and Michael Dameski. While still 16 years old, in October, she had her first oversea class teaching - in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! She was hanging out in the Caribbean for a convention weekend with her mom, Sean, her dance parents Will and Janelle, having a first class flight and of course, a meet & greet like every time. After a short pit stop at home she tried out Maui in Hawaii for a family and birthday week vacation after that. After two taken classes in LA she joined Sean in Iceland at Reykjavik for his after-birthday family vacation. - After she appeared as a series regular as Avery James on Brat TV and took serious first step towards acting career. From the the End of 2018 until her Short Award in May 2019, she said she got some coolers and described the year as a roller coaster ride, but at the end of 2019 it seems she can watch her career from the top of the hill.

In 2020, she performed with Sean Lew as duet on Justin Bieber's new music video That's What Love Is (CHANGES: The Movement). Kaycee co-choreographed with Sean two episodes of Radio Disney's new series On the One and performed it with some friends, before regarding her roller coaster theory she got her cooler by fracturing her ankle, which means at least 3-4 months off for a professional dancer. She didn't missed much due coronavirus quarantine, but it forced her limping up and down at home and the garden like a tiger in her cage. She used the time for statements against racism & violence in the pandemic. Kaycee described the last year as really tough for her with a lot of private problems too. However, the up-swing came from Disney by putting her in the superstar showcase lineup for Radio Disney Presents ARDYs Summer Playlist together with Katy Perry, BTS, Dua Lipa, Bebe Rexha, Meghan Trainor, Sofia Carson, Alessia Cara, Ally Brooke, Asher Angel, Loren Gray, Keedron Bryant, Sia, Thriii (the R&B group comprised of sisters China Anne McClain, Sierra McClain and Lauryn McClain), Sabrina Carpenter, Now United, Maddie Ziegler, Mackenzie Ziegler, Kylie Cantrall, Anne-Marie, Brent Rivera, Meg Donnelly, Echosmith, Max & Harvey, Sarah Jeffery, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Sofia Wylie, Issac Ryan Brown, Sky Katz, Alex Aiono, Lindsay Ell, Blanco Brown! She performed also on ZOMBIES 2 | We Got This | Disney Channel x DanceOn promotion.

In 2021, Sean Lew's one hour short film "II: AN UNSPOKEN NARRATIVE" - The Short Film" was released on February 27 and Kaycee was starring with many of her friends and some of dance industry world-class. On May 14th, she was teaching her first class at the Millennium Dance Complex LA and was teacher or instructor at the "most iconic dance studio in the world"; it is like getting a professorship in Harvard on other fields - in Weirdo's case with 18. Closing this development with a nostalgic The Pulse on Tour feeling on two days Prodigy Dance Intensive event in St. Louis, but this time as part of the faculty with the tons big awarded grand masters to get her last fine grinding in teaching master students. Now she is ready to experience on her own bones what a pain in the neck herself she was by her own permanent students. - "No, no, no! Don't turn back. They sense fear." She appeared on Olivia Rodrigo's short film SOUR Prom and her music video brutal. On September 21, 2022, she posted the Princess is leaving Rice Castle now, and will move in her first bought, own house at the age of 18. If wondering, she has family members in real estate and mortgage business. On April 2023, she said it was her proudest moment. Two days before her birthday Kaycee made her older fans and herself happy by dusting off the tap shoes after seven years not using them and is united after four years with her former partner Ryan Maw again and still killing it. On Dec 13, Sean & Kaycee attended the The World Choreography Awards 2021, the "Oscars of Dance". They were nominated in the category Digital Content for their Radio Disney Channel dance videos - Party in the USA and Don't Start Now.

On February 25, 2022, she performed as background dancer on Jimmy Kimmel Live for Banks - Holding Back and got finally a gig in "small business", which had been denied her for last three years, because she is "such a star". But who considers Jimmy Kimmel Live small business?! To say it with Sean Lew's lyrics "There is a big difference to being me and being successful". On April 10, she performed with Kid Cudi on Kid Choice Awards. She hold online workshops for Mumbai and New Delhi at Jun 9 - 11 in contemporary fusion choreography and three classes at Millennium LA to celebrate JLo's Netflix documentary "HALFTIME" on June 14-16 . In July, she traveled to Europe and visited London, rehearsed and was shooting for the Message in a Bottle dance musical movie about a five weeks, took a class from Lucas McFarlane she worked with , visited Italy and hold a workshop in Sevilla, Spain . Then business as usual like doing a class at the Millennium LA.

In 2023, she posted on her IG to JP Saxe•When You Think Of Me a nice concept video that shows again why Kaycee is considered the Queen of Expressive Performance. Sometimes she is just in the zone when no big camera team is on hand. Her first class she put on herself in LA to GIVE ME LOVE - Ed Sheeran was sold out. On April 16, she performed with Jackson Wang and Ciara at the Coachella Festival. She was performing both weeks (tech rehearsal video). Week two background with Ciara. After the dust had settled, she was the guest on Kinjaz: Movement In The Shadows Spotify podcast episode - Be Bold TO YOU | Kaycee Rice. On April 24, she performed on Jackson Wang*s new music video Cheetah with Jackson, Mackenzie Jarrett, Audrey Lane-Partlow and Kat Cheng. Directoring Jackson Wang and Sean Lew. On June 24-25 she was part of the faculty of the Camp Fabrika 2023 convention in Istanbul, Turkey - with Sean, first class, second class - together with JoJo Gomez, Sean Lew, Todd Williamson, Toby Deedaran, Zacc Milne, Melvin Timtim, Ömer Yelsibas. A lot of groupies we must say. On July 23, she hold a class on her flagship of 'vulnerability, storytelling, and authenticity.' Afterwards beginning August, she hold with Sean a class in Ceglie Messapica, Puglia, Italy at the Breathing Dance studio - JOY (Unspeakable) (feat. Pharrell Williams) - song by Voices of Fire . Then she was part of the faculty of the Play Fair Dance Camp convention 2023 in Cracow, Poland - POSE - Rihanna, 'Recovery' by James Arthur and performed a great showcase there. Then they flew back to the US for a class with Sean on the Flip the Switch Convention 2023 in LA four days later, then she was flying back to Europe to have a class with Lukas McFarlane at 9am at Breathing Dance again. That jet lag was killing her. On September 15, 2023, she performed again with Jackson Wang on his F1 Grand Prix kick-off show in Singapore, mostly with the former Coachella crew. As side effect she got free tickets for the race. On November 17, 2023. she was modeling a weekend for the label Free People in New York City (streets, studio).

On November 3, 2023 the Message in a Bottle musical dance movie was released and Kaycee was one of the six lead dancers. She was requested directly for the role in a late minute booking, when she was again in a roller coaster valley at that time, and didn't know anybody on the set, in the theater studio or what was ahead, but left London later after shooting and rehearsing five weeks with tons of new friends and felt happy. She was afraid that the company treated her like an outsider. A foreign industry star, who doesn't went through the schools of visual arts, gets put strait in front of their noses just for the movie, and like common in the US, some dancers don't take it very well and will not be supportive. But the opposite happened. Cast and crew were welcoming right from the beginning, included her in many freetime activities and showed her London. They were teasing a brilliant performance out of her, because she had not much experience to play long character parts to have about an hour stage presence. "II-The Unspoken Narrative" and "How to catch a Ghost" were her best references. But by her skills as choreo head, expressive performer and versatile technical dancer she properly didn't stressed their patience too much in the close schedule. At the end Weirdo didn't want to leave. Not just because of personal sympathy, but also by experiencing a professional holyland. There were different worlds clashing together. On the one side the independent contractor, who is in a brutal cut-throat on daily basis with diversified business to gets her schedule bricked and the bills paid, struggling not to get pulled down by all these series of coolers, keeps self-motivated to run again and again against the rubber wall of marketing, stays disciplined to resist the call of "the lake", the next Netflix show, movie DVDs, the sun of her backyard or something else, and do an effective daily work quota to the next project goals and having much more office time than a normal dancer doing management, marketing, distribution and administration herself... but actually often fails. Too often! And on the other side the company dancer who is on payroll for a long time, gets less personal attention as part of the whole show, just want to have fun with each other and his job in focused business, and is much more easier. It is get first credits by fluke or industry needs by audition as a kid, declare oneself pro, do homeschooling, got graduated and pro training side-by-side with bookings as a freelancer and staying it - versus - attempted real school as kid, graduated, applied for visual art institute, got trained, graduated, applied for first job, got employed and gets first credits then. She praised how happy she was dancing 8+ hours a day and still didn't stopped and continued on the street, in a pub or a club with these guys and was knowing, next day it will be the same. Because deep in her heart she is still the five years old girl, who starts crying when she has to leave the stage. That made an huge imprint on Kaycee and she described the time as life changing experience. They didn't just respect each other, but liked each other. But Ms. Procrastination had to face the mess she left at home again. The movie could be watched in Canada and the USA in 2023 on PBS Website - Great Performance S51E04 - Message in a Bottle. The feature had been released in UK's cinemas on May 30 - June 6, 2024 and has 2 hours length then (including one interval). The 1h 24 min featured PBS film and live show received best critic's and the musical show is going on world tour now. - Live in Sydney Song *Message in A Bottle", North America Schedule. But Kaycee is not part of that cast - company tour cast - ABC7 Chicago interview with Kate, CBS News interview about Denver show with Kate, accurate to Mexican border crisis, KTLA5 Interview (US only). Director and Choreographer was Lady Kate Prince. - BBC interview Kate, crew and company, second interview with Sting. Music, vocals and lyrics by Sting himself and others - playlist, on Spotify. Great emotional performance by Kaycee and her friends! The outstanding film cast of 16 stars: Oliver Andrews, Lindon Barr, Deavion Brown, Harrison Dowzell, Nestor Gracia Gonzalez, Megan Ingram, Daniella May, Robbie Ordona, Kaycee, Alexzandra Sarmiento, Gavin Vincent, Nafizah Baba, Melissa Bravo, David Cottle, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Anna Holmström, Ajani Johnson-Goffee, Lukas McFarlane, Portia Oti, Hannah Sandilands and Steven Thompson. The dance-theater production from London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre (a rehearsal) tells the story of a family forced to leave their homeland and embark on a perilous journey to freedom. With musical arrangements by Alex Lacamoire (Broadway’s “Hamilton,” “Dear Evan Hansen”), and a mix of dance styles performed by Kate Prince’s ZooNation dance company, Message in a Bottle relays a quest for humanity and hope. Recorded in August 2022, the show features Sting’s chart-topping hits including “Every Breath You Take,” “Roxanne,” “Walking On The Moon” and more. Sir Gordon Summer's interview about the show, Playbill New York Interview with Kate, Gordon and Alex, Their Interview a New York City Center. The ZooNation Company won the National Dance Award 2024. The online stream of the feature can be watched from December 8, 2024 to January 7, 2025.

In 2024, Kaycee goes on the Europe Tour - The Experience 2, together with Jade Chynoweth. Fixed bookings are through France, Switzerland and Portugal from January 13 to January 21. On January 13, 2024 in the 6ème sens school in Tourcoing, Hauts-de-France, France - Jade & Kaycee's intro, class, Sarah Saddouki & Noemi Simón, Workshop International. On January 14, at the Movement Dance School in à Neuchâtel, Switzerland about 50km western of Bern at the Lake Neuchâtel. On January 19, in collaboration by the Hype and Jazzy Dance Studios in Lisbon, Portugal - Jade's class. On January 20, 2024 at the Bcenter Dance SchooL in Annecy at the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France also together with Lauriane Davier, class, post-class speech, Q&A, duet with Jade, Fix You by Cold Play. On January 21, at the Urban Team in Geneva, Switzerland - Urban Team - Collab class with Jade, combo workshop, Jade's workshop with Kaycee, Kaycee's workshop with Jade. Rockstar's tour dairy, Groupies' tour dairy. From May 10 to 12 she was part of the facutily of the Movin Lab Camp 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria with 400+ attendees from across the world. - "Kaycee clearly killed it", LOSE CONTROL - Teddy Swim, Impressions by Ivay Lodonchev, Outro. Then business as usual at MDC LA - THE GREATEST - Billie Eilish. From July 10 - 15, 2024 she continues the Europe Tour this time without Jade. On July 10, she taught at the PLAYGROUND LONDON, UK, Adele- love in the dark and was hanging out with her friend Hannah Sandilands she learned during Message in a Bottle shootings in 2022, as well as Stephen Thompson she played Rock, Paper, Scissors at the Big Bang with. Then from July 13 - 14 at THE SUPER WEEKENDER in Birmingham, UK, First Class, Second Class and on July 15 at The MANOR LDN in London, UK again - Billie Eilish-THE GREATEST. Then some vacation in Scotland with Hannah. On August 1, she was part of the factulty at the Breath Dance Studio in Ceglie Messapica, Puglia, Italy again. Form August 12 to 13, 2024 she was part of the faculty on the Fair Play Dance Convention in Kraków, Poland again - THE GREATEST (Live Performance), Jump Robert Green Choreography. Then she satisfied her nest instinct to Blackpink's Kill This Love at Tim Milgram's studio by JoJo Gomez' choreography. On August 31, she held a workshop at the Rice Dance Camp in Mexico City - Rudeboy Remix 2024 with Y O E, RiseCamp IG KC's class. On September 21 her teacher, mentor and friend Matt Steffanina made a 26 min video as docu/interview about some high- and lowlights of Kaycee's life. On October 16, she performed with Jennie Kim (김제니) on Jimmy Kimmel Live to her song Mantra. Choreography by JoJo Gomez and Silvergunnnn (박은총). She performed together with Jade Chynoweth, Audrey Lane-Partlow, Alyssa Santos, Cameryn Hernandez, Maya-Daeja Holley, Kaylar Preite, Christa Albert, Ky Jones and Aaliyah. On November 23 to 24, she was part of the faculty in Cartago, Costa Rica with Jade again, Erica Klein, Nick Joseph, JulieB, Marlee Hightower and Kenichi Kasamatsu at We Are Urban Festival - Day 1: Kaycee performed to a Hip-Hop/Pop/Epic/Rock fusion, Class, Impressions, Day 2: 16 Shots. More dancing to Rock.

In 2025, most important for all LA residents, she seems still has a house despite the LA Wildfires and didn't exile and attended the Worth Dance Summit in Thessaloniki, Greece at the Aristotle University. (Isn't it called Lyceum? Just asking.) So Greek promoter put Kaycee on a marble socket as well. On January 18, she was head judge in the categories of contemporary, experimental contemporary and jazz in a dance theater show for the peer groups babies (4-6), kids (7-11), teens (12-17) and adults (18+), in the categories solo, duets and groups, offering scholarship prizes in 2026 worth € 30,000 total, which is a lot for Greece. - Attendees list, Winner awards. On January 19, she was part of the faculty together with twins Elena and Fenia Tsikitikou and Antoine Pitoulidou teaching two hour classes at the All Star Dance City and maybe she joined the battle at evening later. - Love me 4 Me ‪- sza‬, The Grudge ‪- OliviaRodrigo, Impressions 1, Impressions 2 Impressions 3, Outro. On March 30, she was holding a workshop at the sold out In the Groove Dance Workshop (Studio 1, 5437 Satsuma Ave, North Hollywood, LA) - Class, Master Student, Peyton Root. Between April 30 to May 3, she hold a workshop at the Movin' Lab Camp in Sofia, Romania again.

Dances

Solos

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Competition	Place Awards
2009	Goodie Goodie	Tap	unknown	Showstopper	unknown
	Hound Dog	Jazz	unknown	Showstopper	unknown
2010	ABC's of Love	Tap	unknown	Starbound (Long Beach I)	1st in Junior Petite Solos
				Starbound (Redondo Beach II)	1st in Junior Petite Solos
				Starbound (Anaheim II)	3rd in Mini Competitive Solos
	Cooties	Acrobatic Jazz	unknown	Starbound (Redondo Beach II)	3rd in Junior Petite Solos
				Starbound (Long Beach I)	4th in Junior Petite Solos
2011	All About Me	Jazz	unknown	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	4th in Mini Competitive Solos
	Somewhere	Lyrical	unknown	unknown	unknown
2012	Evil Gal	Jazz	unknown	KAR (Long Beach)	1st in Secondary 8 & Under Solos
				Thunderstruck (Las Vegas)	1st in Junior Solos
				Rainbow (Ontario I)	2nd in Elite Starz 9-11 Solos
	Favorite Things	Lyrical	Unknown	NexStar (Upland)	2nd Overall NexStar Junior Solo Junior Miss NexStar
	That's Tap	Tap	unknown	unknown	unknown
2013	Black Widow	Jazz	Kristin Abbadini	Starbound (Redondo Beach)	9th in Junior Solos
	Werk	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Nexstar	1st in Junior Solos
	DaCara	Jazz	Kristyn Abbadini	KAR (Long Beach)	1st - Top Intermediate Solo 9-11
	DaFace	Tap	Joy Mosman	Revolution (Upland)	Regional Junior Miss Revolution
	Gone	Open	unknown	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	5th in Junior Competitive Solos
				Starbound (Redondo Beach II)	3rd in Junior Solos
	OMG	Tap	unknown	KAR (Long Beach)	1st in Junior Solos
				Starbound (Redondo Beach)	2nd in Junior Solos
2014	Flawless	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Thunderstruck	1st in Junior Solos
				Revolution (Upland)	3rd in Blue 9-11 Solos
	Trapped	Open	unknown	unknown	unknown
	unknown	unknown	unknown	Revolution (Upland)	2nd in Junior Superstar Solos 1st Runner-Up for Regional Junior Miss Superstar
2015	Fine Objects	Open	Zoi Tatopoulos	Spotlight Dance Cup	1st in Teen Solos
	Hot Stuff	Jazz	unknown	unknown	unknown
	Misdemeanor	Hip-Hop	unknown	Nextstar	1st in Nextstar Teen Solos
	Talk	Open	Kristyn Abbadin	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	Diamond Winner
2016	Nerodia	Open	Zoi Tatopoulos	Rockstar	1st in Teen Solos
				Spotlight Dance Cup	Diamond Winner

Duets

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancer	Competition	Place Awards
2010	Car Wash Cuties	Jazz	unknown	Bailey Holt	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	4th in Mini Competitive Duet/Trio
2013	Monster	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Gabe De Guzman	The Pulse	Getting The Pulse Protégés
2014	This Is Us	Hip-Hop	unknown	Bailey Holt
2016	Control	Open	Zoi Tatopoulos	Gabe De Guzman
	Gumball	Contemporary	Zoi Tatopoulos	Bailey Holt	Spotlight Dance Cup	Diamond Winners

Groups

Year	Dance Name	Dance Style	Choreographer	Other Dancers	Competition	Place Awards
2010	He's Back			Klaire Wolkensdorfer Kinsley Holt Rayline Perez Abigail Cummings	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	10th in Mini Small Groups Platinum
2011	Here Comes Charlie			Kennedi Tichy Elliana Scott Anneston Pisayavong Klaire Wolkensdorfer Kinsley Holt Rayline Perez	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	6th in Mini Small Groups Crystal Award
	Jungle Love			Klaire Wolkensdorfer Kinsley Holt Bailey Holt Rayline Perez	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	7th in Mini Small Groups Double Platinum
2013	Beat Thieves	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Breanna Falls Kioni Gallagher Parker Gibson Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Abbigail Hoogveld Ryenne Jurgella Hayley Kassel Nick Messerly Annestoon Pisayavong Kylie Rice Smith Sydney Clarissa Velasquez	Nextstar	1st in Junior Groups
	Crazy Feet			Lexi Brosamle Nikki Chin Sydney Dyer Kennedy Feco Olivia Fine Parker Gibson Kaitlyn Gilbreth Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Bella Leone Mackenzie Long Alexandra Markow Haili Mikkelson Karlie Mirolla Ruby Mirolla Anneston Pisayavong Alyssa Scott Ava Shue Marissa Temme	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	2nd in Mini Small Groups Crystal Award
2014	Rough Riders	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Kioni Gallagher Parker Gibson Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Abbigail Hoogveld Brandi Ingrassi Hayley Kassel Nick Messerly Anneston Pisayavong Kylie Rice Aubrie Shadday	Spotlight Dance Cup	1st in Junior Groups
2015	Pink Friday	Hip-Hop	Tricia Miranda	Hayley Kassel Abbigail Hoogveld Anneston Pisayavong Aubrie Shadday Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Kioni Gallagher Kylie Rice Becca Perenchio Alexandra Markow	Starbound - National Talent Competition	1st Place - Teen Elite Group
					Showstopper	unknown
	Sassy Seven	Jazz	Kristyn Abbadini	Kinsley Holt Violet Osmanson Becca Perenchio Rayline Perez Anneston Pisayavong Marissa Temme	Spotlight Dance Cup	Ruby Winner - Junior Small Group
	Six	Jazz	Kristyn Abbadini	Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Becca Perenchio Anneston Pisayavong Marissa Temme	Nextstar	1st in Junior Advanced Small Groups
	Ethreal	Contemporary	unknown	Haley Huelsman Tessa Wilkinson Chloe Smith Ashtin Roth	Energy	2nd in Teen Small Groups
	Revolution			Carlie Chaussee Nikki Chin Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Alexandra Markow Ruby Mirolla Rayline Perez Anneston Pisayavong Alyssa Scott Marissa Temme Becca Perenchio	Showstopper (Anaheim II)	5th in Junior Large Groups Crystal Award
2016	That's Right	Hip-Hop	Allison Buczowski	Kioni Gallagher Bailey Holt Kinsley Holt Becca Perenchio Kylie Rice	Spotlight Dance Cup	1st in Teen Groups

TV Competition Shows

America's Got Talent

In 2014, Kaycee competed on season 9 of AGT with her dance partner Gabe De Guzman as Kaycee & Gabe. NBC had invited them to take the audition, after their "Monster" video on The Pulse on Tour went viral. But they were eliminated during Judgment Week. Judge Howie Mandel voted "No", because he felt Gabe was much better than Kaycee. He did not know that she had a broken foot , because she did not tell. Otherwise she would not being allowed to perform on stage and had to let down Gabe.

tWitch & Allison's Kids Dance Challenge

In 2015, the duet with Gabe De Guzman was much more successful on The Ellen DeGeneres Show season 13, where they both won the prize to get a chance being on the Ellen show. At the beginning it was announced that just one kid was allowed on Ellen, but they danced together first round as duo, were been accepted, spitted up for next one and at the end met each other as finalists. However, tWitch & Allison were so amazed by their talent, that they had spoken with Ellen let them both on the show, but they didn't tell, until final duel was battled out. After then they had shown the kids a video of Ellen telling them the good news. On the show, they performed as a quartet with tWitch & Allison, after a short interview by Ellen. Due their success they made it on the Jan 2016 cover of the DanceSpirit magazine.

World of Dance

In 2018, on the NBC World of Dance show season 2 she performed with her new partner Sean Lew 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. 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." They unfortunately lost getting eliminated before the finals. 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. 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 - 2015/2016
• Pulse Elite Alumna since 2015/2016 (lifetime title)
• Miss Petite Starquest
• Miss Petite KAR 2010 & 2011
• Miss Petite Encore
• Regional Petite Miss KAR 2012
• Regional Junior Miss Revolution 2014
• Thunderstruck International Top Soloist Title Winner 2010, 2011, & 2012
• Starbound Miss Star of Hope 2012
• Rainbow Dancer of the Year 2012
• Miss Jr. Nexstar 2012
• Teen Miss Nexstar 2015
• (The first) International Teen Miss Dance Icon as well as the grand title champion at Thunderstruck's 2015 International Finals.
• International Solo Senior Champion Open 2015 Paris at the International Festival of Dance and Performing Arts.

Runner-Up Titles

• 1st runner up for Regional Junior Miss Rainbow Elite Starz DOY 2012

Accolades, Awards and Nominations

Year	Title	Category	Nominated	Result	Refs
2017	Industry Dance Awards	Dancers Choice Award - Favorite dancer 17 & under	Kaycee Rice	Nominated
2018	Industry Dance Awards	Dancers Choice Award - Most fierce dancer under 18	Kaycee Rice	Nominated
	Streamy Awards	Subject Award - Dance	Kaycee Rice	Nominated
2019	Shorty Awards	Best in Dance	Kaycee Rice	Won
2021	World Choreo Awards	Digital Content	Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice - Radio Disney - "Party in The USA"	Normiated
	World Choreo Awards	Digital Content	Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice - Radio Disney - Don't Start Now"	Normiated

List in Articles

Publisher	Year	Listicle	Listed	Refs
The Harvard Crimson	2024	Arts Vanity: The Best Choreography I’ve Ever Seen (during my 22 years of life)	#1: Sean Lew - NBC World of Dance - Qualifiers (2018) Performance by Sean Lew & Kaycee Rice

Resume of the Early Years

Before Studio 13

Kaycee was grown up in a family who loves do sports. Her entire family did Tae Kwan Do and Kaycee was into it since pre-school. But she felt, she was like the ‚Lone Ranger‘of her family. When she had to go into a competition and entered the sparring, she let more the other kids kick her than vise versa, because she didn’t want to fight. But she was very good at the performance part and somehow won her peer class competition. Still today one can recognize some Tae Kwan Do elements in her pirouettes ... and rehearsing accidents. So actually she didn’t like it and more by fluke her mom put her in a hip-hop class when she was four and she instantly felt she is meant to do this.

Kaycee was five when she stood first time in a competition on stage and felt immediately in love with it and was crying when she left the stage, because she wanted more. She was right from the beginning a natural performer – face expression, lip singing and body language. If you didn’t have the privilege to start your dance career as an infant, you properly know how hard it actually is to do some spine and turn combinations so that looks good without years of training. But Kaycee was rattling it off easy like breathing since she was six – she is a left foot dominated clockwise - and showed very early the unnatural figures to bend her back backwards. In consequence she got very young an extreme strong tummy muscular, core strength, excellent balance and her famous flexibility. And people are still asking, if it doesn’t cause any long-term damage when she gets older. She started very early with tap, jazz, tumbling and acro as well.

Studio 13

Kaycee`s mom thought it was a good idea to kill some flies with one slap and founded „Studio 13 Dance“ in Simi Valley where Kaycee grew up - a suburb 40 miles north-west-west from LA downtown - keep up with her training, to keep an eye on her daughter, spare some driving time to classes, spare classes costs, earn some money with the studio – and last-not-least – Kaycee’s older siblings Kylie and Devon could be cared about as well, who are three and six years older than Kaycee. In 2008 she purchased a former Discount Tire Center warehouse off First Street and created Studio 13 Dance, where 12 professionals teach close to 200 budding young dancers. Her sister Kylie was a competition dancer and part of the Studio 13 project team and later professional dancer as well - A professional collaboration of the Rice sisters and Studio 13 dancers was Samuel Cristea - Time to Dance Music Video in 2011 (RR: Kaycee is easy, but do you recognize Kylie. No?! She was the lead dancer, who danced with Samuel, about 11 at that time). So Kaycee got basically her own dance studio, where she could train 24/7, when she was six or seven years old. A two-way mirror gave parents the opportunity to watch their kids practice but prevents the kids from being distracted or nervous about being observed.

She grew up in a relatively protected environment and - that was very important for her development - she didn’t need make big risks and investments to find friends, because the other kids came to her into the studio as an institution, the daughter of the owner. The parents described her as very shy at these days. Kaycee practices at the studio three to five hours a day, Monday through Friday, and occasionally on Saturdays. Each year she enters six or seven dance competitions and one national contest. In 2014 she had been on eight different dance teams and had performed four solo routines and two duets.

Her training in Studio 13 was not well documented for outsiders. It seems she got more versatile in ballet and lyrical when she was 8 years old. Gene Tapia was her first teacher and regarding Kaycee Kristyn Abbadini and Joy Mosman choreographed many of her solos in the early days. But her competition results speak for themselves. She was without shadow of a doubt a very talented young lady, but considering the currently about 350 north-American dancing organizations and companies, who are crowning their regional, national and international champions and supporting thousands of very talented young dancers out there, not that much special. But Kaycee properly didn’t care. She was just looking forward to next competition season to rush out with her friends and sweep the board of trophies. Her crew mates called her their "Secret Weapon". At Thunderstruck International 2015, the studio took home five of six grand international titles. Kaycee said the other dancers hated the Studio 13 dancers, because they occupied most of the parking places at the location for their camping lounge.

While Kaycee enjoys competing, Her mom has noticed she gets more joy out of performing for a purpose rather than winning. “Last year she did this beautiful dance for a Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, and she showed us all that she wants to dance for a reason,” Laura Rice said. She said her job as owner of the studio is the best job she could ask for because she spends quality time with her daughters.- Simi Valley Acorn - Simi girl’s shimmy an Internet sensation. So her brother Devon was with his dad we assume.

Kaycee's biggest ambitions beyond competitions were becoming a teacher at Studio 13 when she will be grown up and maybe one day take over the studio from her mom. But then something happened set her more apart …

Tricia Appeared

Tricia Miranda 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 in these 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.

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 Filmography - Concept Videos - Game of Survival - RUELLE - FORTYONE ) and she later became a staple in the touring, video and dance industry.

However, she wasn’t always treated that way and she often complained about the demanding, unfriendly and impolite working atmosphere. 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.

Regarding Kaycee, one day one of her teachers at Studio 13, later named by Weirdo's dad as Justin "JT" J. Soliz, tried to match up Tricia with Kaycee. First, he talked to Kaycee’s mom that she needed to take Tricia’s class; and on the other hand he insisted to Tricia, that she urgently needed to see the little girl he discovered at Studio 13. He showed her videos of Kaycee's "Issues Five" (already deleted) and said, "You have to work with this kid. You have to ...". And Tricia minded: She is so great. She is so dope. But I don't do kids. 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 (she calls Kaycee still today "munch"), before she “finally broke out curve and smashed into the mirrors”, compared to the professional dancers in Tricia’s masterclasses, because she took instantly a grab on her and made her to her very first permanent kid student.

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 - JoJo Appeared

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 inappropriate for kids. Not a good chance for winning.

But Tricia choreographed “Werk”, as her first choreographed solo ever, including adults. She was more like a production choreographer for about 120 people. So Tricia first refused, but Laura, Kaycee's mom, reminded her that she has never done a hip-hop solo. She should just see what happens. Tricia recalled about "Werk" in 2024 this way:

"So we got her in my studio, me and my assistent and we were like, Who is this kid? I remember the first step is out the gate, already controversial for like a 10-year-old at the time, now It's like so normal, but is the style of dance from Miami that's called riding out and layman's turn, it's like booty popping and so she was ten. So out the gate, it was the first step that happend and it went on a few seconds over and over with different hands. And I think that caught the intention of everybody, that like OMG she is a child, she is only ten, doing this style of dance and she doing it better like anybody else like ohh my gosh like wooo .. what is this? People were just obsessed with this video. Katy Perry was so obsessed with it. And she tweeted this video and it just blew up." Tricia Miranda "Going Off" | Tricia Miranda E009.

She worked on "Werk" with her assistent, an ambitious young dancer who asked Tricia shortly before to watch her on work and learning how she choreographs - JoJo Gomez, JoJo's story how they met. So here we are. Three generations of Dance Queens - a generation in the dance world has about 7-10 years distance - changing the dance industry for ever, by influencing each other, working with another for many years and by choreographing and rehearsing an innocent kid hip-hop competition routine ... like Oppenheimer on the atomic bomb.

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 open 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 ever and she won the nationals. These were moments 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, giving each other some sarcastic side-kicks and keep it beyond business and training. Working with Kaycee and later Gabe De Guzman changed completely Tricia’s attitude about kids and she became a teacher and mentor for many very young dance talents. Tricia got later known as "The Kid Choreographer". She did until 2025 over 100 commercials with kids and Missy Elliott called her directly and exclusively for the Super Bowl by, so quote Tricia, "Hey. You have the best kids. You are the only one I trust hiring kids for me for the Super Bowl." Tricia and Missy became by their collaboration later friends. - Fun Fact: JLo dated for five years Tricia's ex-boyfriend Beau Casper Smart. Tricia & Casper spltted four years before.

So, Kaycee's dad Brat put the taped video of Kaycee’s dance just for fun on YouTube, another channel DancingWithYT pick it up and they 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 and got really excited about it, while Kaycee (10) had no clue what was 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. About a million views over night. In these days it might be normal that dozens of dance videos go viral per day (means more than about 250,000+ views total), 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. 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 it peaked there when Kaycee found a big golden label on her cabin door with her name on it and the credits of her choreographers and family were keeping the train roll forward with new gigs and projects afterwards.

Gabe Appeared

The stars aligned back in 2013, when two young dancers walked into Tricia's class at International Dance Academy (IDA) in Hollywood. Kaycee, then 10, and Gabe, then 12, plowed their way through an intricate hip-hop combo to Rihanna’s “Right Now,” showing dancers twice their age what it means to go full-out.

Tricia recalled:

"I saw this little kid Gabe, who was two years older than her, but still very tiny like her and they took my class one time and I put them together, because they were the only kids in my class, because I only taught adults. And they went for blood! (RR: front blond JoJo Gomez, freaking out behind Gabe was WillDaBeast Adams, also cool: Kaycee with heart top is slaying everyone except Gabe, while mommy was waving with Kayc's fuzzy pet; and video went later viral as well). [...] I remember thinking, ‘Wow, these kids are aliens,’ It’s so rare to find a student who’s mastered both performance and technique, and here I had two.” [...] And I had these idea, OMG, they need to be an duet, I will create something with them and I created these little duet "Monster" at The PULSE on Tour in 2013 and that went viral (but another performance first already deleted, about 2.5M views; found mirror). And than I was like,Ok, now I doing this kid thing. And because these both things went viral, I decided to work with kids."

Kaycee's first impression about Gabe:

“This little boy is crazy amazing. OMG, I have to dance with him." - DanceSpirit - Gabe De Guzman and Kaycee Rice Are a Stage Match Made in Hip-Hop Heaven

To be continued …

Print Media

Newspaper Articles

Date	Newspaper	Title	Subject	Notes	Refs
2019.10.24	Icon vs. Icon	Sage Charmaine keeps it real in the new video for "Around"	Sage's new video after "June" went viral and had on Spotify 200k turns. (see music videos)	Sean & Kaycee performed on it in a retro look of the 50-60's.
2019.10.24	The Strats Times	Dance influencers see social media as their calling card"	How dance stars such as Taylor Hatala, Kaycee, Delain Glazer or Kida the Great, James Derrick (BDash WoD season 2) use systematical social media for business, promotion and financing of their carriers.	"You have an entire generation around the world who identifies with her," Mr Shapiro says. "Kaycee is reaching 13-to 18-year-old kids and shaping what kind of entertainment they like. So when she grows up and produces bigger projects, she'll have fans whose values she's shaped."
2019.10.18	The Washington Post	Janet Jackson hired her as a backup dancer. Instagram made her a star.	How dance stars such as Taylor Hatala, Kaycee, Delain Glazer or Kida the Great, James Derrick (BDash WoD season 2) use systematical social media for business, promotion and financing of their carriers.	“The difference between Paula Abdul at her start and Kaycee Rice is that Kaycee analyzes the data behind her videos, like engagement and retention rate,” Shapiro says - chief executive of Ensemble Digital Studios, an artist management company, who has Kaycee as his client.
2018.05.30	The Daily Mail	Talented teen dancers reduce J.Lo to tears while performing BLINDFOLDED on World of Dance in powerful routine about love and romance that earned a standing ovation from every judge	About Sean Lew & Kaycee's qualifier performance at NBC's World of Dance.	You made really an impact when people still talking about and remember on a dance performance two years later.

Dance and Sports Magazine Articles

Date	Newspaper	Title	Subject	Notes	Refs
2019.08.26	DanceSpirit	Five Young Choreographers Using the Internet as Their Stage	How Bailey Sok, Josh Killacky, Julian DeGuzman, Taylor Hatala and Kaycee use social media as launch pads for their choreography.	When Rice shares her work on YouTube, she hopes fans will see that she's still learning. "Your imperfections are what draw people into your journey," she says. "They help viewers realize that you're human."
2016.11.23	ESPN Magazine	Balancing homework and Hollywood -- the real life of dance parents	About the efforts, secrifices and risks of a successful dance career. Risks and benefits of using social medias. Side-effects for kids and families in show business.	An really excellent article from Sean Hurd. Well, Kaycee expierenced clearly not a "Michael Jackson Childhood Trauma", especially considering the burdens and pressure to be a professional since she was 11 years old. But the article described the dark side of it. But also most impressive, despite her success, she gets it managed having a lots of fun, lives her life and handles the typical teenage pubertal problems  as well.
			"If the day-to-day tasks seem daunting, grooming the next wave of dance superstars is no easy undertaking either, nor is it cheap. Since committing full-time to their children's careers, the parents unanimously said that between travel, hotels, classes and studio time, a family could expect to spend anywhere between $30,000 and $36,000 per year on dance-related expenses. It's no secret that the dance industry is extremely cutthroat -- only so many performers can go on tour with Beyoncé after all. Television shows like the Lifetime Network's "Dance Moms" have attempted to depict the industry's competitive nature. Ultimately, the show has created a limited image of what it means to be a stage parent. It's a portrait that many agree isn't exactly accurate either. The Rices, who appeared on the show in recent years, described the experience as a negative one, adding that they wouldn't do it again if given the opportunity. "Shows like 'Dance Moms' gives parents a bad rap in the eye of people who are not involved in the industry," said Kaycee's mother, Laura Rice, who formerly owned Studio 13 in Simi Valley, California, where her daughter used to practice. "You know, there's drama, but nothing like that show." The lives of Aidan, Kaycee and Taylor -- plus those of their respective families -- were completely altered once their performances exploded in the social media sphere, prompting a huge role-of-dice commitment. And as you might have guessed, there is no guided path for success in this game -- it's all essentially trial by error for the somewhat new industry. "We just started getting our feet wet," said Brad Rice, Kaycee's dad. "There was a lot of good, and some negative that came out of it. It was getting through that gray area and learning about things. We just wanted to protect her." Actually, the life of a dance parent could easily be summed up in a single word: sacrifice. The levels of sacrifice among families range from the simple but time-consuming act of shuttling kids to daily classes or castings to more extreme levels like prioritizing your child's career over your own and quitting your job. Laura said that private lessons for Kaycee could run as high as $200 per hour, and commissioning a piece of choreography for a competition or project could run a bill ranging from $500 to $1,500. "Parents think that it's easy because they see successful kids shooting up to the top," Laura Rice said. "What they don't realize is how many hours, the time, the dedication, the expense and everything else. Not all kids want to do this, and not all kids can handle it either. You need to have a lot of thick skin as a parent and as a child." While some jobs do pay the kids, Brad Rice says the dance industry is not a lucrative business, not yet anyway. "Dance hasn't come quite as far as other fields of entertainment," he said. "In dance, you do a lot of work for very little pay. When someone sees a kid getting all of this exposure, they immediately equate that to stardom, and stardom which creates all this income. But it really isn't that for the dance industry." All three sets of parents said that they have been criticized by people who disagree with different aspects of their children's pursuit of a professional career at such a young age. Teresa said much of the passed judgment revolves around the language of hip-hop lyrics, and the type of choreography the kids are performing, which is often described by critics as lewd and inappropriate for kids. While the parents understand the concern and acknowledge the potentially mature subject matter their kids can be dancing to in any given class, at the end of the day for them, it's just dance -- the underlying meaning associated with the lyrics is subjective. "When dancers dance, especially at a young age, they're not thinking the way adults are seeing it," Laura Rice said. "Sometimes their bodies move in certain ways. You can't teach children to dance that way, they just dance." "When people say 'you have to be all in,'" Teresa said, "we are all in."

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Mailing address:
Kaycee Rice
2470 Stearns St. #191
Simi Valley, CA, 93063

Quotes

About Kaycee

• "Kaycee is an alien!... She is the most passionate dancer I have seen in my entire life." (JoJo Gomez- behind-the-scenes documentary "Growing pains")
• "Keep on shining, my little rock star!" (Nika Kljun - when Kaycee was first time assisting Nika in her class)
• " ...the one and only 'Kaycee Rice'." (Brian Friedman, actually @kayceericeofficial, his birthday congratulations when she turned 16)
• "I saw Kaycee and thought, 'Oh, you're mine.' " (Tricia Miranda, when she first time entered Studio 13 in 2012) - And soon her Munchie initialized Tricia's mother instinct by putting out Kaycee's superpower 'cute, charming smile', turned the iron pro who had never taught kids into a pro dancers mommy, who tells the kids all the secrets to be successful in the dance industry, and suddenly the studios are exploding by tribbles .
• "Queen shit!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍" (Tricia Miranda's comment on Instagram, when Kaycee celebrates her first anniversary in her own house, what she has accomplished, how she has developed, blabla...)
• "She is fearless as well." (JoJo Gomez - behind-the-scenes documentary "Growing pains") - Yeah, messed up á Capella solo, Katy Perry's tweet, performing on The Oscars with Pharell Williams, SuperBowl Halftime Show with Katy and Missy, get introduced by Justin Bieber in full arena to about 42,000 people, performing with broken bones twice and blindfolded dancing on NBC primetime. - That has to be the hell of a gig Kaycee might be shocked. She admits often gets very nervious before the show or standing in front of a big crowd, but when the music goes on and she starts dancing she gets in the zone in seconds. However, she described herself as very shy and social awful person, until she has used to someone. Then her laugh is mostly trying to hide her insecurity.
• "I love Kaycee Rice! She is one of my favorite dancers of this generation, because she is so hard working and be number one of all things. She is such a sweet person; and LA can turn a lot of kids and make people with big heads and egos, especially when they play in the line light she is. She is one of sweetest people. She gives beautful comments. She always comes and says 'Hi!' to me. She is like always makes my day, and makes me smile. She works so hard. She gets better every time she takes class. And she takes everybody's class, and she does all styles. I love Kaycee Rice... and she inspires me." (Jade Chynoweth)
• "She's too nice! Whenever we ask her opinion in rehearsal, she just shrugs her shoulders and giggles." (Gabe De Guzman) - In 2020, she finally got it: Everyone's darling is everyone's fool!
• "She is the worst decision maker, too." (Sean Lew)
• "Not a great choreographer." (Sean Lew on air at To the Pointe) - and Kaycee instantly agreed and got some stress later. - Our master student is claiming on air not to be a great choreographer? An embarrassment for the entire dance industry! - And it to took reverence four months later, when Sean served under Kaycee co-choreographing Red Velvet's music video "Really Bad Boy" as member of her "skeleton crew".
• "And when he remembered that the dance storm had calmed down, a hurricane appeared 🌪️ For 90 minutes, the floor of Multiusos de Odivelas shook again and again, and yet again, as Kaycee passed by 🔥🔥🔥" (the promoter in Lisbon after Kaycee flipped the match to the gasoline lake on the dance floor to start the party hype in her choreography workshop. She had great teachers for that - IMMA, Sean Lew, Nika Kljun and many more, and many very fierce dancers (pros) launched off.)

By Kaycee

• "When I dance I want always people feel inspired. Dance makes me feel alive and initialized by people you love and people who love you. The energy is nothing but contagious and it feels like family."
• "I'm Kaycee Rice and I encourage you to be bold, be brave and be inspired."
• "Dance is my life. I do it 24/7. And even I didn't want to dance for even one second, I would still be dancing."
• "Life without dance would be really boring. I properly would be one these people sitting on the couch, eating chips, playing video games. I'm homeschooled too. So I wouldn't get any physical activity. It would be boring for me, because dance is my life. - Yes!"
• "Make sure that you are thankful for everything you have, because in a second it could be gone" aka carpe diem.
• "...people leave hate comments and stuff. I just don't let it effect me or bother me, because, you know, I live a life to the fullest and loving what I'm doing and I love the people around me and I'm thankful for that. So I don't listen to the hate comments. I just go on with my life and do what I love."
• "...just ignore it,... Because there's always going to be haters no matter who you are or what you do." aka "Don't feed the trolls!"
• "One of my biggest fears is never being enough. Sometimes I doubt myself because I’m such a perfectionist so whenever I feel like I can do better, I get in my head. It’s also a tiny bit terrifying putting yourself out on social media because you don’t know how people may react. Sometimes I see comments saying that I’m “not good enough”, and other phrases like that. And this is what I see a lot online not only towards me, but to so many talented, hard working, kind human beings that inspire me. I try not to let what others may say about me affect me but words can cut deep and put negative thoughts into our minds that may be out of our control. Dance is the one thing that will always make me realize why I do what I do. I dance to inspire and feel inspired. I dance to portray a raw, true message that others can connect to. Dance helps me break out of my shell and let others see the vulnerable, human side to me. I use my fear of “never being enough” and use it as fuel to my fire. I know I’m not the “best” because there is no such thing. I am always a student and I’m constantly learning. Some days aren’t my days, but as long as I love what I’m doing and I’m making others happy, that’s all that matters [...] we were told to write one superpower. I chose to write “being unapologetically ME” because I feel like being myself not only helps me, but inspires others to embrace who they are. My message is that you shouldn’t worry about what others may think of you because we are all the same in a way. We all go through the same problems at least one time in our lives whether we realize it or not. Always just be yourself and never change just to get someone’s approval. We are all imperfectly perfect in every way and that’s so beautiful. Spread love, positivity, kindness, and just be you! also, in my lil improv, I did a throwback to 'wild things' because that moment was so special and always makes me feel free (KC's IG Comment to JoJo Gomez's class 'Broken & Beautiful' Kelly Clarkson)
• "If you never built a pillow fort before, you have not completed your childhood."
• "Never give up, follow your dreams and take the critics from your teachers to become a better dancer!" (Interviews in 2013 by DancingWithYT and These Kids have Talent at the age of ten.)
• Q: What is the most valuable thing you learned so far? Kaycee:... how important is it to put yourself out there and just living life, because sometimes you forget, mixed that with of a bunch of work or staying at home for a long period of time and being alone. I have learned being alone is much more damaging to yourself than being with other people who love and support you, just to have fun with. This is one of the most important things I learned so far. Just have fun with life and being more open." (KC's Q & A in 2021 on IG at the age of 18)

Fun Facts

• Due all public confirmed information and an indiscreet video Kaycee was NOT dating Sean Lew. They tried an innocent shot at the early days, but it didn't worked out. Kaycee described the love for Sean as pure platonic and vise versa. As of February 2025, Sean is dating actress Lizzy Greene. Some shots of Lizzy & Sean. In general, Kaycee doesn't talk about her relationship(s) in public.
• Kaycee's favorite color was blue, but it changed to brown, earthy colors now, her favorite number is 13, her favorite sweets are dark chocolate, her favorite morning drink was green or ginger tea, but it change to coffee and prefers to tee in the evening and her favorite food is steak or shrimps with fried rice.
• She likes to play Boggle, watching movies and the series f.r.i.e.n.d.s.
• She is/was mistress of three dogs - Lulu, Kino and Beanie, but just Beanie is still living. He is a French Bulldog. Sort of. Some say he is a sloth, grimlin and alien hybrid just immigrated from MiB center or got hired. When is Kaycee is travelling, either her sister "Auntie Kayle" or her mom take care of Beanie to quote "having a blast with his grand parents", named to the first product of Weirdo Apparel. Weirdo is allegic to cats.
• Kaycee is very family-oriented. Even after moving out, she spents a huge part of her free time with her siblings, parents and Beanie. Best way to describe the relationship to her siblings is this at the lake in 2020. Including dad it looks like this.
• She is a regular visitor at Disneyland LA and once in Disneyland Paris as prize of all-inclusive trip for being grand title champion and Miss Teen Dance Icon Thunderstruck International Finals 2015 for attending World Final and twice in Disneyworld Orlando. As alternative she is visiting frequently Universal Studios, too. She is going annually with her family in the dessert for new years. She takes frequently a vacation in Hawaii.
• Regarding IMDb Weirdo used to be a stunt double for Mackenzie Foy in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, but that seems to be an one-time event until now.
• She liked editing funny musical.ly videos when she was younger. But she switched to Tik Tok later, which seems to be her personal goof and choreo element archive now.
• Kaycee is good in playing cards; she has always a set in pocket. Regarding Sean Lew she is in general good at sport games; frustrating her friends and choreographers. But sometimes they strike back.
• Matt Steffanina challenged Kaycee three times to check out her limits and didn't find any. First time he made Kaycee together with Bailey Sok dance to his worst choreography he could think of, chosen by a random selection of subject and song. But they killed it by Ariana Grande's "Thank u, next!" for "Grocery shopping". Second trial was challenging Kaycee together with Sean Lew, after they performed blindfolded on NBC's World of Dance, if they can do it again when they have to learn the choreography blindfolded as well. But they killed it again. Just Sean got a little bit more beaten by Kaycee during rehearsals than usual. Last attempt, he tasked her to learn an entire masterclass routine and perform it flawless within 10 minutes, which normally took 1-1.5 hours to learn. And she killed it in her first attempt - after 6 min 27 sec! So on July 4, 2024 - Independence Day - Kyle Hanagami levelled-up the bar, if she can learn the choreography just by verbal instructions without music. And her started:"Going to start to pull a floss to the right and a double Bounce. Then you are going to Bounce to the left check your nails twice. From here eat your burger to the right. Good you are going to say no twice with your palms up from here. You are going to serve to the front. Go 1 2 3 4, very nice! You are going to the shampoo your hair for two counts? 5 6 and then you are going to pray center to go Hip-Hop and then give me your best.YAS" - The music starts. but this time Weirdo jumped under the bar ... At least, she delivered a choreo fits to the instructions, but not Kyle's and Kyle's permanent assistent Haley Fitzgerald performing.
• She has a sense for dry and sarcastic humor. Sometimes she is a creepy exorcist too, but it is unknown if anyone really had been posessed or was just choreographing. Well, this question inspired the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a Anti Vape Commercial with Kaycee. For the record, Kaycee is a militant non-smoker. So the Blizzard Entertainment Inc. thought posession and crazy body moves works fine and used her as motion captioning martix for one of their cinematics of the famous game World of Warcraft to be... what ever.
• She likes to go swimming and waterboarding at "the lake", snorkeling in the ocean and she used to ride motorcycles and quads, had already a helicopter ride and recently has been riding a horse and a snowmobile. - Shooting, parachuting and fencing are missing... Ms. Croft. Skip fencing might be better, because last time she took a Katana in hand she didn't even cut the fruit in equal halfs. So much for perfectionist. Since 2020 she is a NASM certified health & fitness trainer as well.
• She described herself as a tomboy person. She was wearing in a sort of self-irony occasionally sweaters with a label "TOMBOY " or "Boy" on videos and is rarely wearing dresses, skirts, heels or make-up. Dancing in heels was more a kind of job that's evil for her. This was an occasional concept in past before she preferred wearing her own or Nike merchandise. Most famous her "BAD 1" team jersey. In 2019, lipstick gets to a kind of standard and she took her second heels class. She had preferences for plaid shirts, hoodie sweaters with hand pockets in front, pair of paints with a bunch of holes and her reactor seems to need a lot of extra cooling, because she is often dressed tummy-free during classes. She is regularly modeling for some photographers and designer who worked permanently with dancers in Avantgarde fashion, such as Erica Mer, Oth'Than and Romy Young, even Kaycee doesn't match exactly the standards of a supermodel. 5 feet 2 inches tall, not very curvy and a jutting chin. But Edna doesn't bother. "Supermodels. Heh! Nothing super about them… spoiled, stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. Feh! I used to design for gods!” So now she has violated even Edna Mode's safety rule too: "No capes!" But Edna was already offended years ago, when "Elastigirl" went to Nike to get her "Hobo Suit." In 2021, Kaycee wanted to be pointed out that she doesn't want to be stereotyped by her look, because her aesthetic change on a daily basis. In 2023, she outted herself that she had in past serious problems with eating disorder. Well, for her long and skinny legs she was often charged to be one of the girls who has a good chance to break a leg off just by walking, but on her concept video Señorita - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello it got visual how strong her frog legs actually are.
• Kaycee celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah. He favorite time in the year is Chrismas.
• She danced on America's Got Talent with a broken foot and on a national dance competition with a broken arm. Last her dance group won. She has already an inflexible left tumb. She factured her ankle at Feb 2020 and re-injured it again in Aug 2020. For more expertise about "never holding back" and "live your life to the fullest" we switch to our expert for mass injuries Dr. Chan.
• After a resurrection, the first person she would like to talk to would be Debbie Reynolds.
• She becomes a huge fan of the rock band Queen and would like to work with them. Good choice, but working with Beyoncé is properly more likely.
• She started practicing Tae Kwon Do before dancing, being certified Blue Belt. She also likes practicing Joga and she started with boxing in 2021.
• She is suffering on common west-coast "like" disease during unprepared speaking. The 10-year-old Kaycee was much more eloquent than the 15-years-old one.
• She is the worst at remembering names of people she knows. But the good thing by "Alzheimer" is she learns every day new people.
• Her currently most embarrassing moment: When she was performing on a dance competition an á Capella solo (taping without music). She thought in the middle it might be cool to repeat last steps and forgot the rest of the dance by that. After few repetitions of the last steps she finally stopped, shrugged the shoulders, said "I forgot" and went off stage, while the entire theater room was laughing. And she "really" appreciates, that her family taped the whole thing, so it can be watched over and over again.
• She is struggling to get into gears after waking up. She explicitly warned not to mess with her when she is still booting and kindness feature isn't online yet.
• Weirdo is the perfect fusion of anal-retentive and messy nerd. Correction: Real nerds suck at sports. She keeps precise records, but just decreases the entropy in her room, when it needs more time to find something than to clean up... and/or her excuses running out for going to him instead. She is also an expert in procrastination. A typical nerd feature for things they don't like to do or hasn't an huge impact, aka laziness. So keep in mind that early announcements of visits are appreciated.
• After a long working day she likes to take a shower, got to bed and fall asleep during watching Netflix. She described herself as pretty lazy. In 2019, she said that is stretching before she goes to bed or after getting up and sitting , doing nothing, drives her crazy. What annoys her most are slow walkers in front of her, when she wants to pass. Well, Weirdo isn't obviously hypo-active, but that she is some sort of workaholic proves the 50+ feet long Wiki page here.
• "For safety purposes, only dancers with a ticket will be allowed to enter the building. Parents must drop off and pick up students at the main entrance, and may not bring them into the building. No observers will be allowed on the premises under any circumstances." (one of Kaycee's promoters for her masterclasses) - Either visitors risk to get tackled by Weirdo's bodyguards or her choreography went really wild.- But the dancers are always trustworthy and safe.
• She got her permanent driving licence at her 17th birthday; after she finally reached by 5 feet 2 inches down to the pedals and hit them with shoe size 7. We hope she is driving clean; will keep in formation and hit the accents. Otherwise the world is looking forward to her pirouettes. But timing was never her problem. Since March 2022, she is in her "Jeep Periode" and is mostly stronger both - off road and chicken run.
• In Feb 2020, YouTube listed about 428,000 videos she occurs. There are 41 fan Instagram accounts and 8 YouTube fan and compilation channels she tolerates. There also have been spotted already 108 international Kaycee Rice fan groups and pages. As a hommage or tribute to Kaycee a fan has set up a complete playlist on Spotify nearly to every song she has performed on videos up-to-date (578+). And because copyright is not an issue in China one of her fans has uploaded a playlist of 430 videos on bilibili where she performs. . But that's nothing against the Seaycee maniacs. To mention one thing: Wattpad.com is listing at Jun 2020 about 2,800 short stories and 527 e-books where Sean & Kaycee are the main protagonists. Bestsellers such as "Talking Bodies" have already 200K+ views. The biggest celebrity couples cannot match this and they become an interesting psychological phenomenon. By the "False Confidence" video Sean & Kaycee got really immortal. As of March 2024, it is the very first convention video ever with about 50M views. Zeus himself made a reaction video from Olympus about his former student's Werk. Countless dancers tried to cover the performance and choreography of Sean & Kaycee master work and posted their videos, and even an animation video was made. But the dance video with most views of all times at that pointe was Baby Shark Dance Animal Songs with about 15.6 billion views in February 2025. That happens if you throw your smartphone into the cradle, just to get some silence. And guess what?! Choreography by Tricia Miranda.

Additional Pages

Kaycee Rice/Gallery
Kaycee Rice/Filmography
Kaycee Rice/Professional Stage Credits and Convention Assistance

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