AGE 28
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Get ready Australia: SYTYCD’s only b-girl, Demi Sorono, is about to prove that breakin’, lockin’ and poppin’ ain’t only for the boys! This pint-sized dancer has successfully battled many obstacles in life, including poverty and depression, to emerge as an inspirational ball of energy with enough spirit to fill the entire Carriageworks complex!

Demi, 28, began dancing from the age of five, expressing herself either at home with her family (we met siblings - and fellow dancers - Lorraine and Carlo in the audition process), at a Filipino party or disco. She fell in love with Hip-hop and break-dancing after watching Run DMC’s music video clip, remix ‘It’s Like That’, featuring b-boy superstar, AsiaOne.

Immigrating to Australia when she was seven, from the ages of 15 to 24 Demi worked in odd jobs like cleaning, data entry, customer service – the list goes on! Meanwhile she was training with Carlo’s hip-hop group, and in 2004 took herself to LA to check out the world’s best b-boys at Freestyle Session 5. Inspired and fired up, she was, in her own words, “Demilition B-Girl on a mission”! Aww yeah!

She’s been a part of The Movement Hip Hop Crew since 2005, which included gigs at the Big Day Out with Digital Primate and Queen Khadeeja, dancing with Wicked Force Breakers as support acts with TV Rock for Rogue Traders, and performing at the Indigenous Dreaming Festival. She also won the 2005 Australasian B-Girl Supremacy Competition in Wellington, New Zealand.

Now teaching break-dancing for a living, Demi is living proof that if you want it bad enough, you’ll make it happen. Initially she wasn’t going to audition because she didn’t have training in any styles except street. But luckily her plucky spirit and natural talent cut through her fears as she showed the judges her potential to develop. Watch out Australia – Demi is about to RIP IT UP!

Key quote: “I am Demolition B-Girl on a mission who is ready to learn every style of dance there is to learn on
SYTYCD!”

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