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Beat Freaks is an all-
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breaking dance crew from
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,
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. Each of its ten members have achieved individual success dancing before taking part of the group, which was created in 2003. The Beat Freaks were featured on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew (Season 3) and finished the show as runners-up.


Overview

In 2003, seven original members came together to form the crew, being: Alison "Al*Star" Faulk, Teresa "Ragdoll" Espinosa, LindseyB "OUTTHERE", Julie "Lady Jules" Urich, Keeley "LockN' Key",
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, and Marie "Maryss from Paris" Courchinoux. All original members, minus Nakasone and Courchinoux, had previously worked together in another group called the "Groovaloos." When the crew decided to participate in America's Best Dance Crew, they recruited Alex Welch "BGirl Shorty". BGirl Bonita integrated in 2010; she, too, took part of the group "Groovaloos" with the seven original members. In May 2015, the crew added another member, Randi Fleckenstine. With the exception of Rino and Maryss, all members were born and raised in the United States. Rino was born in
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and Maryss was born in
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. Each of the crew members have appeared in music videos, films, and tours with world-renowned artists that include:
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, Britney Spears, Madonna, Janet Jackson,
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, Chris Brown,
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and Avril Lavigne. As individual dancers, they have made appearances on: "
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", " Step Up 2: The Streets", "
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", " Prom Night", "Go For It!", " Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam", " Shake It Up" and "B-Girl", which stars Lady Jules as the main character. In 2008, the crew was featured in the highly publicized dance battle
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videos with Miley Cyrus, dancing beside Miley. They also had an appearance in Justin Bieber's music video for "Somebody To Love". In 2010 they were voted Best Female Dance Crew at the
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Awards.


Members


Alison "Al*Star" Faulk

Alison Faulk, commonly known as Al*Star, hails from southern
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. She was unable to participate in America's Best Dance Crew, because she was on tour with
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at the time. She does not specialize in one particular dance style, and claims that she is an "all styles" dancer. She is one of the original members of Groovaloos and a part of the stage show is based on her life.


Teresa "Ragdoll" Espinosa

Teresa Espinosa was born and raised in
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. After graduating from CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) she toured the world with Janet Jackson on
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, and got nominated for an Emmy in additional choreography that year. She specializes in freestyle and is inspired by
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among countless others. She has worked as a choreographer on the Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and has toured with Britney Spears, on her 2004's world tour Onyx Hotel Tour. Teresa is a faculty member at the hip-hop dance convention Monsters of Hip-Hop. She is one of the original members of Groovaloos and a part of the stage show is based on her life.


Lindsey "LindseyB Outthere" Blaufarb

Lindsey Blaufarb was raised in San Antonio, Texas. Lindsey started off in musical theater and athletics, then later started hip hop dancing at the age of 17. She was an Air force brat and was constantly moving around. She is inspired by her own members, having admired them before joining the group. She has been on tour with Pink and Avril Lavigne. She is one of the original members of Groovaloos and a part of the stage show is based on her life.


Jules "Lady Jules" Urich

She has many years experience doing commercials, music videos, and much more. Some commercials she has been featured in include
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, GAP,
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and
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. B-Girl Jules starred as the main character whose dreams of being a break dancer are put on hold when she is stabbed. Jules is also an animal rights activist. She works closely with a charity called The Cat House on the Kings and is a strong supporter of PETA. She is one of the original members of Groovaloos and a part of the stage show is based on her life. Jules is the one who made the first headspin ever from a lady in the fourth episode of America's Best Dance Crew which is considered the Wack Track challenge.


Keeley "LockN' Key" Kaukimoce

Keeley was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Keeley specializes in locking. Some of her accomplishments are being in ''
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'', ''
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'',
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video, and ''
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''. She is one of the original members of Groovaloos, and a part of the stage show is based on her life. Keeley is married with two children.


Rino Nakasone "RinOkinawa"


Marie Courchinoux "Maryss from Paris"

Born in 1980, Courchinoux was born and raised in
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, France. She said she grew a love for dance after seeing
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dance on television when she was younger. It drove her to travel the world and want to dance with the most greatest dancers. Her moniker "Maryss" was formed from Mary (English version of Marie) and "super star". She has an extensive resume in commercials, having done advertisements with Sprite,
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,
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, J. C. Penney, and iPod. She has performed with numerous artists including Missy Elliott, Common,
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, and
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. She has toured with Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. Maryss and Rino teach at Debbie Reynolds' dance studio in Los Angeles under the stage duo name The Geminiz. Both were also back-up dancers in Chris Brown's music video, "
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".


Alex "BGirl Shorty" Welch

Alex Welch, commonly referred to as BGirl Shorty or Shorty, born October 21, 1989 in Orlando, Florida, but raised in
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. She is the youngest of the crew members, but said to be the most hyper and energetic of them all. Both her parents are professional
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dancers, but she claims that when she was younger she hated dancing and strongly disliked going to the studio with her parents and seeing
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. However, when she was 11 years old she saw a headspin during a
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music video and was fascinated by it. She quickly began to learn breaking and grew to love dance, learning as many different styles as she could. She said prior to joining Beat Freaks, she looked up to them and dreamed of being in the crew; however, she knew they were not recruiting. That quickly changed when she found out the crew was in fact looking for an additional member that could step in for Alison during the third season of ''America's Best Dance Crew''. When she joined, she said it was like a dream come true. Welch appeared in the films, such as ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Step Up 2: The Streets'', '' Bring It On: All or Nothing'', '' Prom Night'' and '' Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam''. She has worked with
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and
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. Welch make appearances in the
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show,
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and
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, '' Shake It Up''. As an individual dancer, Welch has appeared in four music videos:
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's "
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", Jennifer Lopez's " Live It Up", Ariana Grande's " Baby I" and "It's On" by the cast of ''Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam''. Welch was a backup dancer of Britney Spears' Femme Fatale World Tour and she was part of the Jonas Brothers: Live in Concert tour with the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and the cast of ''Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam'' for promoting the film, ''Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam''. In late December 2010, Welch considered taking legal action lawsuit against Demi Lovato, after a confrontation with her led to Lovato punching Welch in the face on tour. Later, they settled the claim and Welch received less than $100,000. On November 22, 2012, after two years since the incident, Welch reunited Lovato on the set of ''The X Factor'' (US) and they apologized.


Bonita "Bgirl Bonita" Lovett

Coming from a classically trained background in
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, Lovett began her professional dance career performing with and choreographing for the Phoenix Mercury Hip-Hop Squad and the Phoenix Suns Dance Team. She has danced for artists
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,
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, Sean Kingston, Fergie,
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,
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, Redman,
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, Q-Tip, Eric Sermon, Rob Base, KRS-One and
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. Not only has she had the opportunity to perform with such artists, she has also been featured in Disney's '' Shake It Up'', Nickolodeon's ''Fresh Beat Band'' and has worked on ''RIO''. She's been featured in commercials and also worked with Nike, Adidas,
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and many more. Before moving to Los Angeles to pursue her career, Lovett co-founded and directed Automatic Response, a non-profit dance company. After moving to LA, she became a member of the Groovaloo’s, an LA based Hip-Hop Company, where she continues to perform in their theater production of Groovaloo. Bonita has been teaching, judging and choreographing professionally for 10 years nationally and internationally. She has bridged her classic studio training with the culture of hip-hop to produce her unique and dynamic style. She is a member of The Legendary
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and was seen performing with them on “Dancing with the Stars” as well as battling with them all over the world. Crazy Legs president of RSC, is one of her biggest mentors.


Randi Fleckenstine

Randi Fleckenstine was born and raised in Northern California, but her dance career began in Boulder Colorado. While studying at the University of Colorado, Randi joined a break dancing crew called Streetstylez. She then explored further in dancing with funk styles and choreo hip hop. She was also a part of the performance crew, True II Form. She taught a variety of classes from popping, locking and breaking to teen choreo at Streetside Dance Studios in Boulder, Co. She is the newest member of the Beat Freaks, integrating into the crew in May 2015.


America's Best Dance Crew

Beat Freaks are runners-up for the third season of America's Best Dance Crew; losing to
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. Beat Freaks were the first all-female crew to make it to the finals of the competition and received much praise from judges
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,
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, and
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. During the season they were recognized by their large banner with the logo of a bright-yellow boombox. Their signature is considered to be the V hand signal, which in the U.S. means "peace". During
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the sign was used by
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as a sign for "Victory."


Dance in ABDC


Performances


Appearances

The Beat Freaks spent much of their on-air time encouraging young girls to dance and follow their dreams. Coming on to the show they came up with a campaign called "Freak the Vote." Knowing that Freak the Vote would only apply on ABDC they decided to come up with something that would carry on even after the show. After discussing and collaborating as a group, they came up with "Freak the Dream." The Beat Freaks' Illusion Challenge performance placed 6th on the Top 10 America's Best Dance Crew Performances of All Time.


Music Videos

Beat Freaks have appeared in three music videos: Diddy's "Love Come Down" in 2009,
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's " Somebody to Love" in 2010, and Australian dance crew/rappers and singers Justice Crew's Dance With Me fFt Flo Rida in 2011. Maryss, Bonita & Shorty appeared in the video for Minus the Bear's "My Time" in 2010. Shorty appeared in
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's
Make My Heart "Make My Heart" is a song by American singer Toni Braxton. It contains an interpolation from "We're Going to a Party" (1977) by Evelyn "Champagne" King. Written by Lucas Secon, Makeba Riddick, Joseph Freeman, Aubreya Gravatt, Theodore Life, Jr. ...
music video in 2010.


Movies

As a crew, Beat Freaks will be making appearances in the movie
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and Go For It.


Other

In early 2010, Beat Freaks collaborated with
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Women and have been heavily featured in the Nike Women website. On June 17, 2010, they performed at the NBA finals halftime show in Game 7 of Lakers vs.
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. Lindsey Blaufarb appeared as a co-choreographer on the finale of Syfy's Face Off, which aired March 14, 2012.


Fans

A graphic novel titled "8 Valkyries," is currently being written by fan Gregory Michel, and is said to be inspired by the crew itself. Each member of the Beat Freaks is portrayed as a different Valkyrie that shows similar physical characteristics.


References

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