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ing Beyoncé Knowles and Missy Elliott. Standing at 6’4” (193 cm) tall, the brothers have modeled for French haute couture fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier and appeared in many high-profile commercial advertising campaigns. In addition to teaching their original choreography in workshops around the globe, they are also the founding In 2005 the brothers recruited five members to form their own dance team called Criminalz
Crew, spending the next few years competing in hip-hop tournaments and entertaining crowds as street performers and in clubs. In 2007 they danced to sold-out audiences in the musical Pas de Quartier at France’s esteemed Avignon Festival. In March 2008 Les Twins gained the attention of the dance community by defeating French street dancers Joseph Go and MeechOnomo at the semi-finals of the prestigious international
dance competition JusteDebout. [12] Following that success, they were finalists and audience favorites on Season 3 of Incroyable Talent (the French equivalent of Britain’s Got Talent) aired on M6. On November 13, 2008 the twins were among the top twelve finalists competing on the Incroyable Talent finale show attended by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and watched by over 4 million viewers. In 2009 they were contracted to perform the two-man hip-hop