Luis Rosado Robles (born December 6, 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a retired Major League Baseball first baseman. He played during two seasons at the major league level for the New York Mets. He signed as an amateur free agent by the Mets in 1972. Rosado played his first professional season with their Rookie league Marion Mets in 1972, and his last with the Baltimore Orioles' Triple-A Rochester Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers' Double-A Birmingham Barons and Triple-A Nashville Sounds in 1985.

References[link]

• "Luis Rosado Statistics". The Baseball Cube. 24 January 2008.
• "Luis Rosado Statistics". Baseball-Reference. 24 January 2008.

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Harry Shum Jr.
Shum at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011.
Born	(1982-04-28) April 28, 1982 (age 30) Limón, Costa Rica
Occupation	Actor, dancer
Years active	2002–present

Harry Shum, Jr. (Chinese: 岑勇康; born April 28, 1982) is an American dancer, actor, and choreographer. He is best known for his role as Mike Chang on the Fox television show Glee. He has appeared in dance films such as Stomp the Yard, You Got Served, Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up 3D.^[1] He also plays the character of Elliot Hoo in The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers.

Early life[link]

Shum was born in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica on April 28, 1982. His mother is a native of Hong Kong, and his father is from Guangzhou, China. They relocated to Costa Rica, where Shum and his two older sisters were born. When Shum was six years old, the family moved to San Francisco, California.^[2] He states, "I feel I have the best of so many worlds. I speak Chinese and Spanish. Spanish is actually my first language before I learned Chinese and English".^[3][4] In an interview, he said that his earliest motivations to dance were from Ginuwine, Dru Hill, and Usher, before becoming influenced by iconic dancers like Gene Kelly and Michael Jackson.^[5]

Shum graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in 2000. He started dancing with his high school dance company team and continued his career in San Francisco under several different studios. He incorporates various different styles into his dance, including popping, tutting, waving, locking, breaking and also contemporary.

Shum was accepted into San Francisco State University, but only stayed there three months before deciding to pursue a career in dance and entertainment.^[6]

Career[link]

Shum launched his career as the only male dancer on BET's Comic View in 2002 and has continued his dancing career from there. He was also one of the lead dancers with stars such as Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Simpson. He won a dance competition to dance in an iPod commercial.^[7][8] He currently plays Mike Chang, a dancer who joins the glee club, on the Fox musical television show Glee.^[9] Known for a while as "Other Asian" on Glee, with very few lines during the show's first season in 2009–2010, Shum's character was given storylines in the second season, mostly involving his relationship with fellow glee club member Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), and his performances of "Make 'Em Laugh" in "The Substitute", "Sing" from A Chorus Line in "Duets", "Valerie" in "Special Education", and the show's first dance solo in "A Night of Neglect". He has been promoted from guest star to series regular for the third season, which is Mike's senior year of high school.^[10] He has already been given a major storyline in the third episode, "Asian F", and performed "Cool" from West Side Story, his first solo song.

Shum has been featured in many productions done by Wong Fu Productions.^[11]

In 2010, Shum appeared in Step Up 3-D, a 3D look at New York style street dancing.^[12] He is also a dancer and choreographer for the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers.^[13]

In 2011, Shum completed an action-oriented project with director Ross Ching, producers Don Le and George Wang, starring himself in the lead role as "the Hunter", Stephen "tWitch" Boss (runner-up of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance (season 4), and Katrina Law (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The Resistance). The project released January 10, 2011, and is set to be part of a trilogy of short films. "3 Minutes" has received nationwide coverage from the official Star Wars site,^[14] Wired.com,^[15] and Gizmodo,^[16] as well as the New York Post,^[17] Seventeen Magazine,^[18] Audrey Magazine,^[19][20][21] and Hyphen Magazine.^[22] It was also won the coveted slot of Vimeo's Staff Pick of the Day on its debut day, netting well over 60,000 views on the site within the first 24 hours.^[23]

Filmography[link]

Other works[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Harry Shum, Jr. – Official Site
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The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, commonly known as The LXD, is a web series about two groups of rival dancers: The Alliance of the Dark who are the villains and The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, the heroes, who discover they have superpowers referred to as "the Ra" through their dance abilities.^[3][4] The entire story takes place over hundreds of years, beginning in the 1920s up to the year 3000.^[1]

The series is written, directed, and produced by Jon Chu^[4][5] who says he was inspired to create the series by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Smooth Criminal" music videos and by the dancers he met while filming the movie Step Up 2: The Streets.^{[6][7][fn 2]} He describes the show as "balletic", "operatic", "high quality"^[6] and a "Justice League of dance."^[3] The series is choreographed by Christopher Scott and Harry Shum, Jr. with assistant choreography by Galen Hooks.^{[2][4][8][fn 3]} Members have a wide variety of specialties including hip-hop, krumping, contemporary, tricking, popping, b-boying, jazz, tap, and ballet.^[1][4] All of the choreography and stunts are real; there are no special effects or wire work^[6] and the entire series is shot on location without the use of green screens.^[1]

50% of the sales of the official LXD t-shirt will go to support the work of the non-profit organization Invisible Children.^{[13][fn 4]} PUMA is the lead sponsor for The LXD.^[15] An official soundtrack is in production with no current release date.^[16] The first LXD theatrical release was presented as a 3D short film, screening before the director's fan cut of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

[edit] Members and cast^[17][18]

Series history[link]

The first two seasons of The LXD were released in 2010 while the third premiered in August 2011.^[23] Shooting first began for the series in February 2009.^[1] It took 18 months to complete filming for the first two seasons.^[1]

The Uprising Begins[link]

Season one focuses on the back story of the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, the "good guys".^[24] Each episode introduces each of the characters and their specific dance ability.^[6] The season premiered July 7, 2010 on Hulu.^[17][25] The first two webisodes (Chapters in the series), "The Tale of Trevor Drift" and "AntiGravity Heroes", were both released July 7. The remaining eight were released every Wednesday afterward.^[17]

Secrets of the Ra[link]

Season two tells the back story of the villains of The LXD^[24] which consist of Organization X—called The Ox—and The Umbras. The second season also premiered with two chapters, "The Legion" and "Lessons", which were released October 26, 2010. The remaining webisodes were released every Wednesday after with the exception of Wednesday, November 24 due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Rise of the Drifts[link]

Season three tells the back story of how the LXD was formed and what led to the Ox and the Umbras uniting to become the Alliance of the Dark. I.aM.mE, a dance crew from Houston, TX who won season six of America's Best Dance Crew, makes an appearance in season three as the Reanimators.^[26] Ceasare “Tight Eyez” Willis, the creator of the dance style krumping, also appears in season three^[26] as the character of Style Ripper, one of the LXD Elders. Season three premiered on August 11, 2011 with two chapters: "The Extraordinary 7" and "Ashes". With the exception of September 1, the rest of the chapters in the season were released weekly on Thursdays.

Reception[link]

The LXD is the most viewed original web series on Hulu.^[27] Mashable.com called the series "...a game-changer in the way that web series — and the arts — are presented online. Oh yeah, and it’s stunning."^[28] In November 2010, The LXD won a Media Vanguard Award for "Best Original Web Series."^[29] In January 2011, the series won a Digital Luminary Award in the "Original Web Content" category.^[30] In February 2011, it was announced that Jon Chu would win the Pioneer Award at the International Digital Emmy Awards for the series.^[31] At the announcement, IATAS President and CEO, Bruce Paisner remarked "Jon M. Chu is one of the most up & coming directing talents of our time and we look forward to honoring him for his innovative contributions to the field of digital entertainment with our Pioneer Prize."^[31]

Live performances[link]

The LXD has performed live for YouTube Live '08^[32] and for the TBS Ellen DeGeneres special Ellen's Even Bigger Really Big Show at Caesar's Palace.^[33] In May 2010, they were the opening act for the Glee Live! tour.^[34] They performed by invitation^[6] on season six of So You Think You Can Dance, the 2010 TED conference,^[35] and the 82nd Academy Awards.^[4][5] In October 2010, the LXD performed at YouTube Play in New York.^[36] In December 2010, they performed on the Conan show.^[37] In 2011, they joined the cast of Glee again on their second international tour.^[38]

Footnotes[link]

References[link]