Wednesday, February 9, 2011

ABDC Auditions in LA yield dozens of call-backs and some MAJOR competition

The Los Angeles auditions for America's Best Dance Crew Season 6 had a crowd of about 70 registered crews. More than 20 were invited back the next day for call-backs consisting of another performance of their audition routine, plus a call back challenge where they had less than a day to create a new routine using a District78 master mix.

While Los Angeles's callbacks had more familiar faces to dance fans (from prior ABDCs and other TV dance shows, as well as local and international competitions), there were also some new faces. And, we heard that severak crews with younger members -- Freshh, Freshh 2.0, Proteges, Urban Empire Kidz, and RNG -- made it to the call-back round.

Based on communications from various sources and our own observations, here's a list of most (probably not all) of the crews called back in Los Angeles. Leave a comment or email me if we missed some names, and we'll add them to the list. Note: a much smaller group went from the callbacks to the 'short list' for further consideration. While we've heard about many on the short list, MTV wants to keep this information confidential, so we won't post it. Congratulations to all these crews, as well as the other talented crews that auditioned!

THE LOS ANGELES CALLBACK ROSTER FOR ABDC6 (as far as we know): 25/8, , Elektrolytes, Entity, Fallen Kingz, Flavas, Freshh, Freshh 2.0, Funk Beyond Control,  Inside the Box, Jungle Jills, Klaamation, Knucklehead Zoo, Marvel Inc., Mos Wanted Crew, Oceans 11, Proteges, ReQuest, RNG, SickStep, SRL, Street Kingdoms, The Academy, The Generation, Unity LA, Urban Empire Kidz, Villains.