“One of the most mind-blowing performances in America’s Got Talent history.”
That’s how NBC’s America’s Got Talent show described the performance of the Ukrainian light-up dance crew Light Balance. The team won the hearts of the audience and jury during the June 20 audition episode of show’s 12th season with their unusual dance performance, and made it straight to the live shows, bypassing the rest of the auditions.
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Light Balance is a team of dancers, designers, programmers, and choreographers founded in Dnipro in 2012, who perform dance routines in costumes designed with wire coated luminescent material.
The video of the Light Balance’s performance at America Got Talent already got more than 3,3 million views.
The performances started with all lights going down on the stage and a man wearing led-lit Uncle Sam-inspired suit dancing to Bruno Mars’ song “24k Magic.” His fellow dancers, who were also wearing led-lit suits, joined the lead with some skilled hip-hop moves.
“We’ve seen dances in the dark before, but not this good,” U.S. model Heidi Klum, who is also a judge on America’s Got Talent, said after the audition as the audience was still shouting and cheering.
The show’s host Tyra Banks showed up on the stage yelling “Wasn’t this incredible?” and went down to jury’s table to slam the golden buzzer that each judge can use once per season to send the crew to the live shows.
“I have never seen anything like Light Balance, and I truly believe they earned a Golden Buzzer,” Banks wrote on her Twitter on the same day.
It wasn’t Light Balance’s first success at the talent shows as the dance team already made to the final in Ukraine’s Got Talent in 2013 and to the semi-final in Britain’s Got Talent show in 2014.
The group’s technical director Mykyta Sukhenko said in a pre-recorded backstage interview before the performance that the group now hoped to move to America if they won.
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