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Jalen's passion and ambition to become a breakdancer began after watching the 2004 movie, You Got Served. Although only 4-years-old at the time, he taught himself how to headspin. The headspin remains his signature dance move. In his early years of dancing, he has performed on the Maury Povich Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and various NBA basketball games. He has appeared in The Seattle Times and numerous Seattle Sonics promos; including ads in The Seattle Post Intelligencer andNBA Seattle Sonics season tickets. Jalen has also appeared on Nickelodeon’s Fresh Beat Band Season 1 and in 2009, he was an invited competitor for Korea’s “Star Kings” TV show and Germany’s World Vision charity event. In 2011, he was invited to perform at a Christmas event in Hong Kong. His first movie role as a dancer was in the 2010 movie, “Step Up 3-D.” That was soon followed by his role as “Jose Jr.” in the 2011 Adam Sandler movie “Jack and Jill.” He was also featured in Justin Bieber’s, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” music video. The video is a lead in to the 2011 movie, “Arthur Christmas.” Jalen has also appeared in multiple dance tutorials on Disney’s “Shake It Up” and as “Little Six” in commercials for Six Flags theme parks. Jalen is currently the youngest member of MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” Season 2 winners, Super Cr3w. He appeared on the Season 5 Champions for Charity show with the rest of the crewmembers. Although breakdancing is his first passion, he also enjoys soccer, basketball, football, gymnastics, and just being a kid. He has black hair and brown eyes. |