ReQuest Dance Crew are an all-female hip-hop dance crew from Auckland, New Zealand. The crew was formed in 2007, with originally five members. ReQuest are based out of The Palace Dance Studio in the Auckland suburb of Penrose

Penrose, New Zealand

Penrose is an industrial suburb in Auckland City, New Zealand. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, at a distance of about nine kilometres, between the suburbs of Oranga and Mount Wellington, and close to the Mangere Inlet, an arm of the Manukau Harbour...

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ReQuest won back-to-back world titles – 2009 (Varsity division) and 2010 (Adults) – at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships

World Hip Hop Dance Championships

The World Hip Hop Dance Championships is an international hip-hop dance competition created and operated by Hip Hop International that first occurred in 2002...

 held in Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

; in 2010 they defeated America's Best Dance Crew Season 5 winners, Poreotics

Poreotics

Poreotics, also known as Poreotix, is an American all-male dance crew from Westminster, California. The crew was formed in 2007 by "Dumbo" Nguyen and specializes in popping, choreography and robotics, hence the name Po-reo-tics...

. The crew also placed first at the 2009 World Supremacy Battlegrounds (Varsity division) in Melbourne.

In 2011, ReQuest featured in the music video for Vince Harder

Vince Harder

Vince Harder is a New Zealand R&B/pop recording artist and producer.His most notable song to date is Everything, which reached number one in New Zealand on the RIANZ Singles Chart in 2008. In May 2010 he released the single "Say This With Me" which peaked at number 39 on the singles...

's single "I Want This Forever". ReQuest also appeared on Season 6

America's Best Dance Crew (season 6)

The sixth season of America's Best Dance Crew, also known as America's Best Dance Crew: Season of the Superstars, premiered on April 7, 2011 and concluded on June 5, 2011. Auditions were held in four cities from January 21 through February 5: Chicago, Houston, New York, and Los Angeles. This season...

 of America's Best Dance Crew

America's Best Dance Crew

America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American competitive dance reality television series that features street dance crews from the United States and around the world. It is produced by American Idol judge Randy Jackson and airs on MTV...

. They were the second international dance crew to feature on the American show (after Blueprint Cru from Canada in 2010), and the first crew from outside North America. ReQuest are also one of the first crews in ABDC to have more than seven members. They were eliminated in Week 4 of the competition.

External links

• The Palace Dance Studio website
• ReQuest Dance Crew profile on America's Best Dance Crew
  America's Best Dance Crew
  America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American competitive dance reality television series that features street dance crews from the United States and around the world. It is produced by American Idol judge Randy Jackson and airs on MTV...