{"id":206926,"date":"2019-03-26T04:32:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=206926"},"modified":"2019-03-26T05:32:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:32:51","slug":"pinoy-dance-group-vpeepz-beats-battle-droids-in-world-of-dance-us-climbs-to-next-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/26\/pinoy-dance-group-vpeepz-beats-battle-droids-in-world-of-dance-us-climbs-to-next-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy dance group Vpeepz beats Battle Droids in &#8216;World of Dance US;&#8217; climbs to next round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Vpeepz-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Vpeepz-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Vpeepz-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Vpeepz-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Vpeepz-20x13.jpg 20w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Vpeepz.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8220;First and foremost, your precision is literally dancing with one brain, everybody doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. Top-notch,&#8221; said Ne-Yo.  (File<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvaW1h0BkSa\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vpeepzofficial\/\">vpeepzofficial\/Instagram<\/a>)<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filipino dance group VPeepz hit the dance floor really hard on Sunday, March 24 (US Time), leading to their advancement onto the next round of American dance competition, <em>World of Dance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sporting their Baseball-inspired outfits during the competition&#8217;s The Duels, the young Pinoy dancers once again made their motherland proud in front of the international audience as they won over their competitor, Belgium&#8217;s Battle Droids, after they performed their dance routine, <em>Tambourine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vpeepz, a group of Filipino dancers aged 11 to 16, drew &#8216;oohs and aahs&#8217; from the enthusiastic audience, while the three judges &#8212; Jennifer Lopez, Derek Hough, and Ne-Yo &#8212; were undeniably impressed with their outstanding performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;First and foremost, your precision is literally dancing with one brain, everybody doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. Top-notch,&#8221; said Ne-Yo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wowed by how clean Vpeepz did every dance step, Jennifer said, &#8220;you guys were hitting it so hard and that&#8217;s what I look for too like can you keep up the intensity and you guys absolutely did.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Derek, the part that caught his attention the most in their performance is what he called the &#8220;robot burn.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You&#8217;re all like, &#8216;Oh you&#8217;re like this. No, no, don&#8217;t think so,'&#8221; he told the young dancers. Derek, however, pointed out some mishaps in their performance, specifically the point where a girl almost lost her balance when she raised her right leg over her head and turned it like a hand of a clock. Despite this, Derek told the Vpeepz, &#8220;But overall, y&#8217;all did your thing, y&#8217;all did.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ne-Yo also agreed to this, saying, &#8220;you guys kept going like it didn&#8217;t even happen and you get kudos for that because the show must go on no matter what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, Vpeepz obtained an average score of 92.7, making them move into the competition&#8217;s The Cut next week. Their latest score is two points higher than the 90.3 they <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">got\u00a0 from<\/g> their performance earlier this month where they showcased their dance routine to the song &#8220;How Low&#8221; by Ludacris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/06\/filipino-dance-group-advances-to-next-round-of-world-of-dance-us\/\">READ: Filipino dance group advances to next round of \u2018World of Dance\u2019 US<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino dance group VPeepz hit the dance floor really hard on Sunday, March 24 (US Time), leading to their advancement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":206929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206981,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206926\/revisions\/206981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}