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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
Femme 5	"Do It Well" by Jennifer Lopez
Enigma	"I'm So Hood" by DJ Khaled
ICONic	"Cyclone" by Baby Bash
Break Sk8	"Get It Shawty" by Lloyd
Kaba Modern	"Technologic" by Daft Punk

Week 2

Aired on February 14, 2008

Each crew was given a different video with a dance sequence in it, which they had to perform while keeping their own style as a crew.

Dance Crew	Song
Kaba Modern	"Wall to Wall" by Chris Brown
Live In Color	"Hey Mama" by The Black Eyed Peas
JabbaWockeeZ	"Ice Box" by Omarion
BreakSk8	"Get Up" by Ciara
ICONic	"Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown
Status Quo	"U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer
Fysh n Chicks	"Freakum Dress" by Beyoncé
Femme 5	"Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani

Week 3

Aired on February 21, 2008

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.

Dance Crew	Song	Character
JabbaWockeeZ	"Ayo Technology" by 50 Cent	Thieves
Kaba Modern	"Sensual Seduction" by Snoop Dogg	Geek Boys & Popular Girls
Status Quo	"Hey Baby (Jump Off)" by Bow Wow & Omarion	Tuners
BreakSk8	"What Is It" by Baby Bash	Basketballers
Fysh n Chicks	"Maneater" by Nelly Furtado	Business Women Hitting the Town
Live In Color	"B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" by Outkast	Vampires & Damsels in Distress

Week 5

Aired on March 6, 2008

Each crew must perform to a track from Michael Jackson's Thriller in honor of the album's 25th anniversary.

Dance Crew	Song
Status Quo	"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson
JabbaWockeeZ	"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" by Michael Jackson
Kaba Modern	"Thriller" by Michael Jackson
Fysh n Chicks	"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson
BreakSk8	"Beat It" by Michael Jackson

Week 6

Aired on March 13, 2008

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.

Region	Dance Crews	Song
West Coast	Fysh n Chicks, Kaba Modern & JabbaWockeeZ	"Tell Me When to Go" by E-40
South	Enigma Dance Kru & Live in Color	"Get Low" by Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys
East Coast	ICONic & Status Quo	"Phenomenon" by LL Cool J
Midwest	BreakSk8 & Femme 5	"Pop, Lock & Drop It" by Huey

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