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America's Best Dance Crew is an American television show featuring street dance crews from the United States. The season one premiered on MTV in the United States and MuchMusic in Canada on February 7, 2008. In the first season, it was hosted by Mario Lopez and featured Layla Kayleigh as the backstage correspondent and was judged by rapper Lil Mama, former *NSYNC singer JC Chasez, and hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks. JabbaWockeeZ was declared the winner of season 1 on the March 27, 2008 season finale and received the $100,000 (USD) prize.
Auditions
America's Best Dance Crew features dance crews from all over the United States and in the first season, these dance crews auditioned in four cities: New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles. A total of twelve dance crews were chosen from the four cities and were then broken up into four regions: East Coast, Midwest, South, and West Coast.
East Coast
Midwest
South
West Coast
Status Quo
BreakSk8
Live in Color
JabbaWockeeZ
ICONic
Femme 5
Enigma Dance Kru
Kaba Modern
The Movement
Full Out
Fysh N Chicks
Automatic Response
Results
Legend
Eliminated
Bottom 2
Winners
Week:
1/26"
2/7
2/14
2/21
2/28
3/6
3/13
3/20
3/27
Dance Crew
Result
JabbaWockeeZ
Btm 2
Winner
Status Quo
Btm 2
Runner-up
Kaba Modern
Btm 2
Elim
Break Sk8
Btm 2
Elim
Fysh n Chicks
Btm 2
Btm 2
Elim
Live in Color
Elim
ICONic
Btm 2
Elim
Femme 5
Elim
Enigma Dance Kru
Elim
Automatic Response
Elim
Full Out
Elim
The Movement
Elim
" The live auditions special determined the nine spots for the season premiere.
Performances
Live Auditions Special
Aired on January 26, 2008
Week 1
Aired on February 7, 2008
Dance Crew
Song
Live in Color
"Watch Them Roll" by Sean Paul
JabbaWockeeZ
"Apologize" by OneRepublic featuring Timbaland
Fysh n Chicks
"Whine Up" by Kat DeLuna
Status Quo
"Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Each crew must perform to a popular dance, also known as a "dance craze", while showing their style. However, since some of the dances are very simple, there were certain challenges each team had to do while performing.
Dance Crew
Song
Challenge
Live in Color
"2 Step" by DJ Unk
Crew must exchange clothing in their dance
JabbaWockeeZ
"Lean wit It, Rock wit It" by Dem Franchize Boyz
Crew must create an illusion that defies gravity
BreakSk8
"Cupid Shuffle" by Cupid
Crew must stay physically connected in a section of the Cupid Shuffle
Kaba Modern
"G-Slide" by Lil Mama
Crew must partner up and perform a lift
Fysh n Chicks
"It's Goin Down" by Yung Joc
Crew must perform some of the steps in reverse
Status Quo
"Crank Dat" by Soulja Boy
Crew must perform a portion of the dance upside down
ICONic
"Chicken Noodle Soup" by DJ Webstar
Crew must perform a portion of the dance on their backs
Week 4
Aired on February 28, 2008
Each crew has to perform a storyline as a character in a movie, while performing on the set of a street.
Each crew has to perform a Broadway scenario and turn it into a hip-hop routine.
Dance Crew
Musical
Song
Status Quo
Hairspray
"You Can't Stop the Beat"
JabbaWockeeZ
Chicago
"All That Jazz"
Kaba Modern
Grease
"You're the One That I Want"
BreakSk8
Dreamgirls
"One Night Only"
Week 7
Aired on March 20, 2008.
Each crew must perform to a master mix of the same songs using moves from the history of hip hop.
Song
Funkytown by Lipps Inc
It's Like That by Run DMC vs Jason Nevins
It's Just Begun by Jimmy Castor
Push It by Salt-n-Pepa
Bye Bye Bye by *NSYNC
Get Buck in Here by DJ Felli Fel
With Status Quo and JabbaWockeeZ moving on to the final, they each performed an encore "Do or Die" round for America to view, call, and make their final decision of who will be "America's Best Dance Crew".
Dance Crew
Encore Performance Title
Status Quo
Jack in the Box
JabbaWockeeZ
The Red Pill
Kaba Modern
America's Best Dance Crew Video Game (Not shown on MTV)
Week 8
Aired on March 27, 2008.
Season Finale and the results show, announcing the winner of America's Best Dance Crew. All the crews came back and worked on a dance with other crews in their respective divisions (West, Midwest, South, East). The songs the crews performed to were also subject to represent the area they came from, the West and E-40 (Bay Area), South and Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys (Atlanta), East and LL Cool J (Queens, NY), and the Midwest with Huey (St. Louis). JabbaWockeeZ was announced as the winner of season 1 of America's Best Dance Crew.