Bio
The French freestyle dancer Laurent Bourgeois is known in the dance world as an innovative giant together with his twin brother Larry Bourgeois (collectively The Twins). Their new performing style was described as “gravity-defying” and redefines the boundaries of movement.
Born on December 6, 1988, in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris to a family of Caribbean descendants with seventeen children, they shot to fame in 2008 as finalists on the TV show ‘Incroyable Talent’, the French version of ‘Got Talent’. In 2010, a US breakthrough came when a video of their World of Dance performance in San Diego went viral, earning more than 50 million views to date. Shortly after, they went from dancing on the streets of Paris to sharing a stage with Beyoncé as the only male dancers on ‘The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.’
“One night, we showed up and danced on the Champs-Elysées. Alicia Keys saw us, and we performed with her the next day in Paris. That’s how it started. Then we saved up and flew to New York and danced in Times Square, which is where Jay-Z and Beyoncé spotted us, and we danced in her world tour.”
“In our videos everything is improvised, we could never reproduce any of it. It’s a moment, it’s life, it’s instinct. We live life like dance steps. We’re always saying that every move is important. Dance is about being right there in the moment.”
They have astounded the global public with performances on The Ellen Degeneres Show, the Billboard Awards, Dancing with the Stars, Cirque de Soleil's MJ Immortal Tour, and appearances in Rocawear, H&M, Addidas Megalizer, New Era and Hennessey Campaigns.
The Twins also founded Criminalz Crew.
(based on publicly published materials)
Born on December 6, 1988, in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris to a family of Caribbean descendants with seventeen children, they shot to fame in 2008 as finalists on the TV show ‘Incroyable Talent’, the French version of ‘Got Talent’. In 2010, a US breakthrough came when a video of their World of Dance performance in San Diego went viral, earning more than 50 million views to date. Shortly after, they went from dancing on the streets of Paris to sharing a stage with Beyoncé as the only male dancers on ‘The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.’
“One night, we showed up and danced on the Champs-Elysées. Alicia Keys saw us, and we performed with her the next day in Paris. That’s how it started. Then we saved up and flew to New York and danced in Times Square, which is where Jay-Z and Beyoncé spotted us, and we danced in her world tour.”
“In our videos everything is improvised, we could never reproduce any of it. It’s a moment, it’s life, it’s instinct. We live life like dance steps. We’re always saying that every move is important. Dance is about being right there in the moment.”
They have astounded the global public with performances on The Ellen Degeneres Show, the Billboard Awards, Dancing with the Stars, Cirque de Soleil's MJ Immortal Tour, and appearances in Rocawear, H&M, Addidas Megalizer, New Era and Hennessey Campaigns.
The Twins also founded Criminalz Crew.
(based on publicly published materials)