A massively clever dance crew baffled America’s Got Talent’s audience with mesmerizing light illusions during the show’s quarter-final on Tuesday.
Light Balance, a Ukrainian group, couldn’t perform live due to technical issues, and judges Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell were left to watch footage of their rehearsal instead.
But the mishap didn’t keep the dancers from making a strong impression, with all four judges looking duly amazed by their electrifying light tricks.
Clever: Light Balance (pictured), a Ukrainian dance crew, baffled America’s Got Talent’s audience with mesmerizing light illusions during the show’s quarter-final on Tuesday
It still works: The group couldn’t perform live due to technical issues, and judges Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell were left to watch footage of their rehearsal
Transformation: At that point, a figure started shredding its clothes to reveal hairy arms, eventually turning into a werewolf onstage (pictured)
With multi-colored lights highlighting their silhouettes, Light Balance’s members delivered an impeccable choreography making it seem as if they kept appearing and disappearing while one of them turned into a werewolf.
The performance, set to Jason Derulo’s Swalla and If It Ain’t Love, featured a vampire-like character who, about a minute into the routine, seemed to retreat into the ether while a full moon rose above the stage.
At that point, a figure previously seen at the beginning of the set reappeared, but started shredding its clothes to reveal hairy arms.
By the end of the transformation, that character had revealed itself as a full-blown werewolf, apparently brought to life by the aforementioned full moon.
That werewolf kept the party going by apparently settling behind a DJ booth, and the dance kept going until the vampire-like creature reappeared.
Stunning: With lights contouring their silhouettes, Light Balance’s members delivered an impeccable choreography making it seem as if they kept appearing and disappearing
Hey, Mister… Werewolf? The werewolf kept the party going by apparently settling behind a DJ booth, and the dance kept going until a vampire-like creature appeared
Threat: As an evil laugh resonated above the stage, the vampire appeared to trap the innocent dancer from the beginning into its bat wings
Loving it: The technical mishap didn’t keep the dancers from making a strong impression, with all four judges looking duly amazed by their electrifying light tricks
As an evil laugh resonated above the stage, the vampire appeared to trap the innocent dancer from the beginning into its bat wings, before disappearing into a bunch of flying creatures.
Howie, who pointed out it might actually be a positive things for the judges to experience the performance like TV viewers (i.e., on a screen instead of live), looked amazed at the end of the routine.
Simon, who has made it known he is hard to impress, appeared to share the feeling and joined Howie for a standing ovation.
Light Balance’s fate will be decided by viewers’ votes, and will be announced during a live results session tonight.
The dance crew is up against several other front runners who have previously won over the audience and judges, including nine-year-old singer Celine Tam, 12-year-old ventriloquist Darci Lynne, and deaf jazz singer Mandy Harvey, 29.