Two Dozen Ballerinas Attain First Prize With Stunning Optical Illusion Routine

Oct 30, 2020 by apost team

A dance ensemble consisting of 24 ballerinas won first place at the New York's Youth America Grand Prix finals in 2014 with an incredible optical illusion routine.

It's no secret that ballet is one of the world's most beautiful art forms. But as you're about to see, this troupe of 24 ballerinas took the art of ballet to the next level.

Every year, the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) holds a dance competition in New York City. And this isn't your run-of-the-mill high school talent show. The YAGP attracts dancers from around the world who use this opportunity to showcase their incredible skill, grace, and talent. Over 1,200 competitors attend this competition every year.

When you sign up for the YAGP dance competition, you're truly competing among the best. And if even their lower-tier dancers are among some of the best in the world, what can you possibly expect from their first-place winners?

It turns out, you can expect a stunningly beautiful routine that uses elegant fans to create clever optical illusions.

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This group of dancers from China entered the YAGP dance competition in 2014, according to the video below. And while these dancers might be young, with an average age of thirteen, you don't want to estimate these ballerinas. The audience knew it would be entertaining, but they had no idea that they were about to witness the performance of a lifetime.

At the beginning of the dance, the girls assemble on stage, carrying fans that resemble delicate flowers. They raise their fans in the air and open them to reveal a beautiful pale green design. After a series of graceful displays, the girls stand on their tiptoes and dance across the stage with their fans, smiling the entire time.

They perform several classic ballerina moves that are made even more elegant by their graceful fans. They twirl, stand on their toes, kick their legs in the air, and prance across the stage in perfect sync. You've never seen anything so harmonious.

As the dance goes on, several girls leave the stage to make it easier to see the remaining dancers. The girls dance in perfect formation and delight the audience with their beauty and grace. The rest of the dancers return to the stage for an energetic routine. You'd think that the girls would be out of energy by now, but their dance becomes even more astonishing.

They dance across the stage so effortlessly that it's like they've been doing this their whole lives. The fans become the centerpiece of the dance as the girls emphasize their fans with swooping motions and delicate hand movements. Their skirts swirl around their legs like delicate flower petals. At one point, the dancers group together and use their fans to create the image of a flower.

Near the end of the dance, they join together and dance in perfect sync like they share a universal mind. They hold their fans in the air like water lilies, then line up and create a stunning optical illusion. It's a spectacle that this crowd is privileged to witness.

Since the video was posted online, it's racked up over five million views, tens of thousands of "likes," and thousands of comments. It's clear that the rest of the Internet is just as impressed as the audience was. And these dancers clearly made an impression on the judges, because they walked away with a first-place trophy at the end of the competition.

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