| America's Best Dance Crew | |
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| Genre | Competitive dance Interactive Reality Game show |
| Directed by | Michael Simon |
| Presented by | Mario Lopez Layla Kayleigh |
| Judges | JC Chasez Lil Mama D-Trix[1] Omarion (season 5) Shane Sparks (seasons 1–4)[2] |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6[3] |
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| Executive producer(s) | Joel Gallen Josh Greenberg Abe Hoch Randy Jackson Rob Lee Howard Schwartz Karen Schwartz Harriet Sternberg Austin Wagner |
| Cinematography | Scott Hylton |
| Running time | 60/90 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Warner Horizon Television |
| Distributor | MTV |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | MTV |
| Original run | February 7, 2008[4] – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | MTV's Top Pop Group |
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| Website | |
America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American competitive dance reality television series that features street dance crews from the United States and around the world. It is produced by American Idol judge Randy Jackson and airs on MTV.[5] The series was originally developed for NBC, initially titled World Moves.[6]
The show is hosted by former teen actor, two-time game show host, and Dancing with the Stars runner-up Mario Lopez, and features television personality Layla Kayleigh as the backstage correspondent. For its sixth season, the current judges include hip-hop artist and dancer Lil Mama, former 'N Sync member JC Chasez, and So You Think You Can Dance and America's Best Dance Crew alumnus Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval.[1] Former judges include hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks and R&B singer Omarion.[7][8]
On July 29, 2011, MTV announced at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour that America's Best Dance Crew has been renewed for a seventh season.[9]
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America's Best Dance Crew is a reality show where dance crews from all over showcase their talent and compete for a $100,000.00 (USD) grand prize. Each week, the crews are given a challenge. The challenge is different for each crew but has the same general concept. For example, one challenge included a set of a school gym, and each crew had to incorporate beats with the props on stage (lockers, bleachers, jump ropes, etc.). Every week there is a performance/results show. Mario Lopez reveals which crews are in the bottom two. These two then do the performances they were planning on doing if they were safe and then the judges choose which crew's performance was better, and that crew stays while the other crew is eliminated. Since the first season, the winning crews also received the Golden B-Boy Trophy, a golden statue of a B-Boy doing a freeze, with the legs moving like a bobblehead. Another unique aspect of ABDC is the crew banner. The logo on a banner represents that crew, appearing on merchandise and the background for interviews, and is also used as a transition effect. When a crew is eliminated, its banner falls off the top of the stadium where the banners of the crews still in the running stand. They get to dance one last time on the stage as they "walk it out" to the song of the same name. If a crew is eliminated from the sixth place mark (fifth in Season 4 and Season 5), they will have a compilation video showing its journey on the show. The final 2 crews will have a last chance challenge seen before the finale.
On August 2, 2009, as a prologue for season four, the show premiered a special hosted by Randy Jackson called "The Top 10 Performances of All Time," where Randy showed his top 10 picks of the first three seasons:
| # | Season | Dance Crew | Challenge | Song |
| 1 | Season 1 | JabbaWockeeZ | Michael Jackson Challenge | "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" by Michael Jackson |
| 2 | Season 3 | Quest Crew | Last Chance Challenge | "orQUESTra" by Quest Crew and District 78 |
| 3 | Season 1 | Top 4 crews | Broadway Remixed Challenge | "It's a Hard Knock Life" from Annie |
| 4 | Season 3 | Strikers All-Stars | Britney Spears Challenge | "Gimme More" by Britney Spears |
| 5 | Season 1 | Kaba Modern | Crew's Choice Challenge | "Technologic" by Daft Punk |
| 6 | Season 3 | Beat Freaks | Illusion Challenge | "Freeze" by T-Pain featuring Chris Brown |
| 7 | Season 3 | Dynamic Edition | Sudden Death Challenge | "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas |
| 8 | Season 1 | Breaksk8 | Dance Craze Challenge | "Cupid Shuffle" by Cupid |
| 9 | Season 2 | Fanny Pak | Missy Elliott Challenge | "Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott |
| 10 | Season 2 | Super Cr3w | Crew's Choice Challenge | "Get Up Offa That Thing" by James Brown |
| Season | Winner | Other Crews (in order of placement) | Judges |
| 1 | JabbaWockeeZ | Status Quo, Kaba Modern, Breaksk8, Fysh N Chicks, Live In Color, ICONic, Femme 5, Enigma Dance Kru |
JC Chasez Lil Mama Shane Sparks |
| 2 | Super Cr3w | SoReal Cru, Fanny Pak, Boogie Bots, Supreme Soul, A.S.I.I.D., Phresh Select, Xtreme Dance Force, Sass x7, Distorted X |
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| 3 | Quest Crew | Beat Freaks, Fly Khicks, Strikers All-Stars, Dynamic Edition, Ringmasters, Team Millennia, Boxcuttuhz, G.O.P. Dance |
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| 4 | We Are Heroes | AfroBoriké, Massive Monkees, Rhythm City, Vogue Evolution, Beat Ya Feet Kings, Southern Movement, Artistry In Motion, Fr3sh |
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| 5 | Poreotix | Blueprint Cru, Hype 5-0, Jungle Boogie, Saltare, Heavy Impact, Static Noyze, Royal Flush, Swagger Crew |
JC Chasez Lil Mama Omarion |
| 6 | I aM mE | ICONic Boyz, Phunk Phenomenon, Street Kingdom, Instant Noodles, 787 Crew, ReQuest Dance Crew, FootworKINGz, Jag6ed, Eclectic Gentlemen |
JC Chasez Lil Mama D-Trix[1] |
In Canada, the show airs on both MuchMusic and Musique Plus. In Italy ABDC airs on MTV Italy. In Portugal, the show airs on MTV Portugal, MTV Argentina in Argentina, MTV Russia in Russia (by the alias of "Короли Танцпола",[10] lit. "Kings of the Dancefloor"), and the Warner Channel in Latin America. In Germany and Austria, ABDC airs on MTV Germany, VIVA, MTV Ukraine in Ukraine (by the alias of "Танцювальні бої",[11] lit. "Dance battles"), MTV Finland in Finland, MTV Hungary in Hungary, MTV NL in the Netherlands, MTV Norway in Norway, and MTV UK in the United Kingdom. The show also airs on MTV France, where it is called Dance Crew USA.[12] ABDC airs on Solar TV and Jack TV in the Philippines, Fiji One in Fiji and YAN TV in Vietnam for the first three seasons, and MTV Romania in Romania.
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