Vietnamese 218 Dance Crew has qualified for Asia’s Got Talent Season 2 (Photo Courtesy of 218 Dance Crew) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – Vietnam’s 218 Dance Crew qualified for Asia’s GotTalent Season 2 last weekend, with the qualifying round airing at 8pmoꦺn national channel HTV3 - DreamsTV.
To qualify for the show, the crew produced a performance combining thetraditional 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 Vietnamthrough its dancing performance with LED lights on the background of TrongCom (rice drum, a traditional bongo-shaped Vietnamese drum) music.
The ao dai (traditional long dress), ao ba ba (Vietnamesesilk ensemble garment), conical hat, boatman, ho Hue (Hue chantey)were introduced by the crew, with its fully made combination of music and dancemove.
Anggun Cipta Sasmi, an Indonesian and French singer-songwriter, one of thethree judges, said it was an impressive and unique performance, with every moveperformed well.
David Foster, Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter,and arranger who has won 16 Grammy Awards and one Emmy, the secondjudge, 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, recordproducer, entrepreneur and actor, was dazzled by the performance, “I love theway 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 chosenby the judges to bring Vietnamese culture to an international competition, “Wehope Vietnamese audience will share this victory with us!”
Asia’s Got Talent is the regional version of the GotTalent franchise. airing on AXN Asia. It is a talent show thatfeatures singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of allages competing for a prize of 100,000 USD and an opportunity to performat Marina Bay Sands.
The show begaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn airing on March 12, 2015 across 15 countries in Asia. Theshow has been aired from October 14 with Vietnames✃e subtitles on HTV3 –DreamsTV at 8pm every Saturday.-VNS/VNA
