Vietnamese 218 Dance
Crew has qualified for Asia’s Got Talent Season 2 (Photo Courtesy of 218 Dance
Crew)
To qualify for the show, the crew produced a performance combining
the traditional and contemporary, receiving praise from the audience and
judges.
The show was filmed at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands hotel.
The crew was praised for directly taking three judges and the audience to
Vietnam through its dancing performance with LED lights on the background
of Trong Com (rice drum, a traditional bongo-shaped Vietnamese drum)
music.
The ao dai (traditional long dress), ao ba ba (Vietnamese
silk ensemble garment), conical hat, boatman, ho Hue (Hue chantey)
were introduced by the crew, with its fully made combination of music and dance
move.
Anggun Cipta Sasmi, an Indonesian and French singer-songwriter, one of the
three judges, said it was an impressive and unique performance, with every move
performed well.
David Foster, Canadian musician, record producer, composer,
songwriter, and arranger who has won 16 Grammy Awards and one Emmy,
the second judge, said "You have shown us a bit of flavour of Vietnam with a
modern style, a style of 2017 and I am really into this performance.”
Jay Park, the last judge, American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, record
producer, entrepreneur and actor, was dazzled by the performance, "I love the
way you show Vietnamese culture through the popular images of conical hat,
boatman and others. It was so awesome and I like it so much!”
Lead dancer of the crew, Nguyen Chan Tin, said they were flattered to be chosen
by the judges to bring Vietnamese culture to an international competition, "We
hope Vietnamese audience will share this victory with us!”
Asia’s Got Talent is the regional version of the Got
Talent franchise. airing on AXN Asia. It is a talent show that
features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages
competing for a prize of 100,000 USD and an opportunity to perform
at Marina Bay Sands.
The show began airing on March 12, 2015 across 15 countries in Asia. The
show has been aired from October 14 with Vietnamese subtitles on HTV3 –
DreamsTV at 8pm every Saturday.
Source: VNA
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