"Previously in the duels..." "Two acts entered." "Only one survived." "The acts will go head-to-head..." "And battle for a spot in the next round..." "You're going into the lion's den right now, and you have to go for blood." "It's a battle royal." "Bring it on." "Ooh!" "Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo." "This is how you win a competition." "I wouldn't wanna follow that." "Now we have a dance battle on our hands." "And..." "We've saved the most intense duel for last." "Three acts enter..." "Only one survives." "Leaving the competition now is..." "Oh!" "Okay, guys, welcome to the duels." "Just as a reminder, the act with the highest score from the qualifying round will pick first." "Kinjaz, who do you pick?" "We respectfully choose Stroll Groove." "For the first duel of the night, the top scorers in the teams division, Kinjaz, chose 10th place stepping team Stroll Groove." "Kinjaz is one of the most exciting teams to watch in the competition." "In their first round, they created movements that was so riveting to watch." "Our style is influenced by, like, a ninja culture." "It allows us to transform into anything." "You didn't need big, crazy tricks to keep it interesting, and I was, like, locked in." "Stroll Groove was a big surprise for me." "It's not always about technique." "Sometimes it's just about the passion of it." "Our group is here to bring the unity back through this art form." "You know, people are always like, "Oh, it's just singing." "It's just dancing." But it's not." "Love is what it's all about." "Yeah!" "These are two very different teams with two very different styles." " Wait, what is this?" " Couple props to help us with our performance." " Oh, wow." " One, two, three, four." "Kinjaz, they're gonna try and be even more cinematic to create this illusion of a temple." "It's mesmerizing, but only if things line up perfectly." "You're stepping it up and you're bringing these panels, and I know you guys are literally the cleanest." "Just don't lose that." "Kinjaz are bringing the fire, but it's irrelevant." "We're still gonna bring it hardcore, raw." "Yes, that was so good!" "That was so good." "For Stroll Groove, choosing a '90s party anthem is a fantastic choice." "That last little breakdown that you guys did, if there's any way to do just, like, a tiny bit more." "I think that they would all be like..." ""Ah!"" "Our round one performance is like..." "Our round two performance is like..." "It feels like a battle royal." "Kinjaz, we got you." "We're gonna bring it Stroll Groove style." "Period." "First up, Kinjaz." "Kinjaz pride." "Hey!" "Kinjaz pride." "Kinjaz pride." " Kinjaz pride." " Hey!" "Kinjaz." "Kinjaz pr-pride." "Kinjaz pride." "Kinjaz." "Bra-bra." "This, to me, is how you win a competition." "Every move is dynamic." "Being something small, something big." "It's not easy to be subtle and explosive at the same time, and y'all have mastered that." "You use the group in a very kind of a calculated way that plays to all of your strengths." "It's not about all of us out here all the time." "You guys are putting together a performance, a show." "I really, really enjoyed it." "You guys are, like, the masters of illusion." "It was incredible." "One of your advantages is that you guys have an identity." "You have a theme." "It's very clear." "You have..." "like, I want one of those jackets." "You know what I mean?" "Like, I'm like..." "literally..." "Me too." "If you're giving out jackets." "She's got enough jackets." "Don't worry about her." "I don't have one that says "Kinjaz."" "So we said this before, that we're looking for the million dollar routine." "I think that was a million dollar routine." "We'll have to see how this round goes 'cause this is..." "this is crazy right now." "Let's lock it in." " Are we good?" " We're good." "Next up, Stroll Groove." "Get busy." "Sing!" "There was more stepping in that." "I love that." "The sound was so fantastic." "It's so powerful." "It's so energetic." "Thank you." "Kinjaz picked you guys." "How'd that make you feel?" "You know, Kinjaz, they're a world-class crew, obviously." "But then we were like, you know what?" "We're gonna give you guys a run for their money." "All right, yeah." "I like the performance." "It was definitely energy from start to finish." "It felt like a house party, but stepping' is what y'all do." " Give me something real quick." " Let's go!" "You see what you just did right there?" "No music, just you by yourself?" "That was more dynamic than you guys' performance." "When you're battling somebody, you're going into the lion's den," " and you have to go for blood." " Right." "So I think we're gonna go and, uh, do the scores now." " Ready to lock-in?" " Ready to lock it in." "We'll see what happens." "The scores are locked." "It's the moment of truth." "Let's find out who's going through to the next round." "Kinjaz... 91.3." "Stroll Groove... 81.3." "Kinjaz, you're moving on to the next round." "Let's hear it one more time for Stroll Groove." "Kinjaz, you guys are incredible." " Just keep it coming, man." " Keep raising the bar." "We got Kinjaz pride!" "Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" "It's the personality." "It's the faces that you make." "All I know is that I wouldn't wanna follow that." "If somebody gets in the way, somebody's gonna get hurt." "That was, like, a Super Bowl halftime show." "That's what I'm talking about." "This is a battle." "Next up, in the upper division" "Canadian cabaret act Luka and Jenalyn chose traditional ballroom duo DNA." "Luka and Jenalyn are doing cabaret, which is like ballroom with a lot of tricks and acrobatics and a lot of lifts, and they gave us one heck of a first round." "We're here working out butt off to..." "Kind of prove that, like, anything is possible really as long as you put your mind to it." " That was really cute." " Aww, thanks." "I'm sorry, that was just adorable." "It was like a lift/trick clinic, and the transitions were seamless and very creative, which made them more interesting to watch." "DNA's qualifier performance incorporated a lot of ballet lifts, a lot of contemporary moves." "They did a really great job of infusing different elements of dance within ballroom, which makes for a very exciting performance." "The lifts looked like you were working a little hard." "If you gotta get in the gym, bruh, and get a more... get a little bit... whatever it is." "We're supposed to be amazed at how effortless you make it look." "But they had so much intensity." "This is kind of what I want ballroom to look like." "Are you guys an actual couple?" "We just got married." "So romantic." "This duel is going to rock the house." "One is bringing wow dancing and the other is bring wow tricks." "I can't wait to see these two styles head-to-head." "The judges, last time they loved the wow factor of all the lifts, so is your strategy a little bit, like, bringing more of that into this?" "Now, for this round, we have to do tricks that we've never done and that no one's seen." "Yeah." "Luka and Jenalyn have some incredible tricks." "They have put together a head spin that is legitimately dangerous." " Whoo!" " And she's let go." "If they pull that off, maybe they will score high enough to beat DNA." "Whoo!" "Beautiful leg." "Yeah." "Yes!" "Yes!" "You guys are on fire." "Like, level ten." "You guys are coming to compete." "Our next performance will be more powerful," " aggressive at times." " Yeah." "And we are putting some lifts as well." "I don't know if people understand how hard that is." "It's essentially bench pressing someone." "This time..." "I think I'm more ready than..." "Now I feel like they are more ready..." "This time." " I'm going to the gym." " Both of these acts are pushing their boundaries with ballroom dancing." "Which of them are best able to take it up a notch?" "We have so much riding on this." "We put so much work and effort in." "We feel like this is the time for us to shine." "We've been dancing for ten years." "Our competition experience could really help us in this." "Bring it on." "This one is good." "This is a good battle." "First up, Luka and Jenalyn." "Your first routine, you had so many, like, tricks and movements that I was like," ""I don't know, did we see their best?" "Do they have anything more?"" "Uh, yeah, you do, and we just saw it." " Thank you." " The tricks were remarkable." "The fact that you're balancing her on your head, no hands, and then finding front after that." "That's... that's difficult." "That was amazing." "All I know is that I wouldn't wanna follow that." "Man, y'all make it look so easy." "I'ma go home and try to spin my wife on my head, and we both gonna wind up in the hospital." "That's what's gonna happen." "Quality." "You should be proud of yourself." "When you dance together with a partner, you actually have to have a real relationship, and you're starting to appreciate what she does and she's starting to trust you so much, and that's why this was a different level" " than what we saw the first time." " Yes." "And I would just say, the in between steps is what's gonna..." "makes all of those moves even more and more dynamic." "It's like, "Crashing, hit a wall." ""Are you gonna be there?" "I need you right now." "Or else I'm gonna fall and crack my head open."" "Right?" "So... you're not gymnasts, right?" "So, you're not acrobats." "You're dancers." "So don't forget that." "Make sure you're dancing the whole time." "Thank you." " We ready to lock it in?" " Let's lock 'em in." "The scores are locked in." "Okay, DNA, it is your turn." "Go show us what you got." "That's what it's gonna take." "Yeah!" "Next up, DNA." "Ooh." "All right." "DNA, you guys are beautiful ballroom dancers." "Really, really, beautiful." "I feel like you had a little bit of a hiccup right at the top." "Right?" "No?" " Yes." " Yes." " Yes." " Doesn't matter." "You guys danced beautifully." "The footwork that you did back there," " the ganchos." " Yeah, it was amazing." "It was really outstanding." "Yeah, it was sick." "There were a couple of little hiccups, and you have to smash your competitor, so we'll see." "Yes, out of the double spiral into the double turn, you fell out of it, but you kept going." "You picked yourself back up." "You guys are better technicians, and the quality of dance, like, the in between moments, you guys are better." "Like I thought they were, like..." ""Oh, they... you're going into, like, a fish, an Argentine tango fish," and then... but you didn't." "You went into something different and it was a different line." "So I appreciated that so much." "It was so wonderful to watch." "I remember the last time we saw you," "I said to you that when you're doing your lifts and your tricks and things, it needs to look easy." "I feel like you took the note, but then again, there were a couple places where there were little mishaps here and there, but other than that, quality." "That bench press though." "I saw that moment." "All right, we're gonna lock in our scores." "Let's lock 'em in." "The judges' scores are locked." "Let's see which act is moving on to the next round." "DNA... 80.3." "Luka and Jenalyn... 88.7." "Luka and Jenalyn, you're going through." "You guys are amazing at what you do." "Taking nothing away from you as dancers." "You are incredible, but at this level of competition, this is a very, very narrow margin for error." "Hope to see you guys next year." "Thank you so much." "Thank you." "Unfortunately, on stage a few things went wrong." "So just really disappointed that I didn't do..." " It's okay." " A good job." "You guys delivered on the night, and that's what it takes." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Thank you for everything." "Congratulations again." "Just give me a high five." "I'm very glad that" " he did not drop me." " It doesn't happen." "Again, we take it very seriously." "In the three years of our partnership, he's never dropped me once, which I'm very proud to say, and I'm very proud that we did a very good job." " We did it." " You know, it's unfortunate," " and I-I..." " Nerves are tough, man." "I mean, you... you hit it right on the head." "You said... you said, "It's about delivering in the moment,"" "and they didn't." "As great as they are, they didn't deliver in the moment." "You have to go for blood for every single performance that you do." " Mwah!" " Whoo!" "There's a reason why you are the Jabbawockeez." " Ooh!" "Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo!" " Now we have a dance battle on our hands." "It's a hard round because we have great people battling, and we have to send one of those acts home." "Whoa!" "It's the personality, it's the faces that you make, that really makes you guys stand out." "Thank you." "Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" "That's what I'm talking about." "This is a battle." "If somebody gets in the way, somebody's gonna get hurt." "That's how hard y'all hit every move, and I love that about y'all." "We locking' in?" "I hate this part." "Here we go." "Let's find out who's going through to the next round." "ImmaBEAST!" "The duels are kind of brutal." "I feel like we're gonna lose a lot of great dancers." "Come on!" "Show us why you're here!" "I love the use of the prop, the lighting." "Couple cleanliness issues here and there." " Nothing major." " It was really affective." "It was magical." "Whoo!" "I've got goose bumps." "Definitely played up the passion." "The kiss felt real." "So did she... did she, like, die?" " So, she died?" " She died of a broken heart, and she was playing the castanets," " and it was her heartbeat." " Thank you, Jennifer." "Oh." " Are we locking' in?" " Yes." "All right, let's do it." "♪ Now lean with it ♪♪ Lean ♪" "Pasión!" "In the duels, it's more intense because... it's direct competition." "You can see them and they can see you." "I don't envy them at all in the realm of it." "Super duper clean." "We could hear every tap." " Thank you." " The competitive spirit." "Like, you jumped over there, took it straight to them." "That's what a duel is about." "Matter of fact, band, show her how to lay it..." "That was like a Super Bowl halftime show." "Yeah." "Lockin' in." "Ow!" "Chapkis Dance Family." "Chapkis family!" "Chapkis family!" "Next up on stage, D'Angelo and Amanda..." "Me and Amanda did set a really high bar for us" " in the last round." " We're just hoping that this round, we can do even better." "Versus the Mihacevich Sisters." "We definitely fell like underdogs." "We're just three sisters from Cleveland, Ohio." "And this experience has been so amazing, and we're not ready for it to end yet." "First up, D'Angelo and Amanda." "Whoa!" "The subject for tonight's lecture is rhythm." "The subject for tonight's lecture is rhythm." "Okay, the last time we saw you, you blew us away, so you set a bar for yourself." "You came in a little under that bar for me this time." "You have to go for blood every single performance that you do." "Okay?" "What I do love about this group is that you do dance as one," " and that moves me..." " Thank you so much." "But I don't wanna see the same thing each time you guys come out here." "I wanna see you push yourselves." "Okay?" "I love your guys' connection with each other, but I believe the audience reacted more" " to the other couple." " Crowd appeal and impact" " is one of our categories." " Absolutely." "So great job overall." "We'll just see if it's enough." "Thank you." "Let's lock those scores." "D'Angelo and Amanda... 78.7." "Mihacevich Sisters... 81." "Mihacevich Sisters." "Ooh!" "Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo!" "Took it right to your opponents, and that's what a duel is about." "Now we have a dance battle on our hands, and that's what it should be." "Okay, guys, the picking is done." "So we have three acts remaining," "Jabbawockeez," "Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions, and Rouge will go head-to-head." "With only one spot remaining in the next round..." "Will be dancing for their lives in the ultimate three-way duel." "Rouge is a fiery group of unapologetic, fearless women." "Rouge, here's what I love, girls that can give you that hard-hitting, that attitude, that energy." "Rouge, all there." "They also made quite an impression on Jennifer." "I wanna just take you on tour with me." "The... all of you." "Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions, super smooth performance, very slick, but if Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions are gonna go all the way in this competition, they're gonna need to be a little less chill," "a little more dynamic." "They need a little more wow in the routine." "Competitively, we're the underdog." "A lot of us don't compete that often, and we are putting ourselves out there to be judged, and that's scary." "It felt like an artist's performance." "Again, this isn't a presentation," " this is a competition." " The routine itself needed to be just a little bit more exciting." "The Jabbawockeez, hands down one of the most well-known crews in the competition." "Their first performance, though, they... they didn't give us classic Jabbawockeez." "They were a little more..." "a little more chill." "It felt like there was more groove, and a little less, like, isolation." "Call me old school, I don't know, but I loved the... the isolation." "Why come and put yourselves on the line?" "We come from nothing." "We do this, we live this, and we only wanna grow." "This is gonna be one of the most exciting duels so far." "And it's going to be hard to not only lose one, but two of our teams." "The Jabbawockeez..." "Who had to redefine being clean and precise." "Come on, Joe, you gotta get those arms right." "The judges wanted to see the classic Jabbawockeez." "But we're a type of crew that we wanna bring the unexpected every single time." "Everyone's gunning for us." "Judges already have expectations for us." "It will be interesting to see, will the Jabbawockeez stick with this new groove or if they're gonna bring that old school Jabbawockeez and what they're really known for." "Honestly, we were all very nervous." "They are both very established crews, but at the same time, this is what we came for." "We're just gonna bring it." "Rouge's strength is their choreography." "They know how to balance hard-hitting moves with that feminine energy." "Ian has really taken the judges' comments to heart." "We look at last week as like," ""Okay, well, we have to really step it up."" "They definitely wanna deliver all sorts of new dynamics in this routine." "Jabbawockeez are the best dancers on the planet." "This situation is for sure not ideal." "We are not going to underestimate them at all." "We're here for the competition." "We're here to get the job done." "This three-way is gonna be really tough, but we're ready for this battle." "Even though we're not Jabbawockeez or Ian Eastwood, we deserve to be here." "Next up on stage, Jabbawockeez versus Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions versus Rouge." "First up, Rouge." "Let's go, ladies!" "Mwah!" "Whoo!" "Rouge, repping for the ladies." "I like it!" "It's hard to compete with that female sexy energy." "I love a good booty shake." "Everybody know that." "Hey, when in doubt, shake it out." " Know what I'm saying?" " Everybody knows that." "You're all great dancers, but at the same time, the choreography could have been just a tiny bit better." "I love the confidence." "You guys definitely had the tack." "There were a couple moments where you lost me a little bit, but other than that," "I thought it..." "I thought it was good." "I feel like a diagonal line, it didn't quite hit it." "It just felt a little bit sloppy in areas, but you made up for that in your energy, and we'll keep that in mind, so..." "Are we locking' in?" "Next up, Jabbawockeez." "Okay, here we go." "Wow." "Drop, drop, drop, drop." "Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo!" "Check on the word." "That performance really felt like those break dance battles from the '80s or something." "It was so authentic." "I'm getting really to see you up close and personal for the first time, and your details is what I..." "is riveting." "I think you guys are kind of at a disadvantage." "Because we know you, we know your work, we know you're amazing, the bar is high for you guys." "We're competing against our old catalogue, and that's kind of hard, right?" "Because we kinda set that bar." "There's a reason why you are the Jabbawockeez." "You guys came in and you, like... you took it right to your opponents, and that's what a duel is about." "I love the subtlety, but the most dynamic part of it for me was the cannon." "Boom!" "Like, when that happened," "I was like, "Okay, we're here to do it."" " Okay, we're gonna lock in." " All right, lock in." "Okay?" "We are locked." "Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions," " are you ready?" " Ready." " Let's go!" " Cool." "Coming up..." "The judges have locked their scores." "In third place and leaving the competition now is..." "We feel like we have something to prove." "We're prepared, but now everything's a question:" "Is this enough?" "It could go, really, any direction." "Next up, Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions." "Oh!" "Just a little bit of..." "Just a little bit of..." "Oh!" "Okay!" "I feel like you guys took on some of the notes from the first time." "You know, last performance felt a little bit like an artist's performance." "You guys were kind of like the backing dancers." "The details, the way you guys used your jacket at the end, that was super creative, really cool, and the formation changes, the group visuals, you guys raised your personal game from last week definitely, so good job." "Thank you, thank you." "I gotta admit when I saw the lineup, the Jabbawockeez are who they are." "Rouge is really, really strong, so I was worried for you guys." "I'm..." "I'm not worried for you guys anymore." " Well, thank you." " We have to look at how you guys perform in this round with this audience, and see who... you know, just, like, knocks it all the way down, and really, really takes the round," "so now we have a dance battle on our hands, and that's what it should be." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "All right, we're gonna lock in our scores." "The judges have locked their scores." "In third place and leaving the competition now is..." "With a score of 80 points..." "Rouge." "Guys, aww." "I already miss you, and I hope to see you guys again next year." "I really do." "That leaves us with Jabbawockeez and Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions." "Only one can stay." "Let's find out who made it to the next round." "Jabbawockeez... 84.7." "Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions... 85.7." "Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions." "Ooh!" "You are through to the next round." "Congratulations." "Jabbawockeez, this entire room is shocked right now." "I mean, it's heartbreaking to see them go because they were the standard of what this is all about." "Give it up one more time for the Jabbawockeez." "You know, this is a battle, and that's what it came down to." "They just simply out-danced them in this particular routine." "Make some noise one more time for Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions." "That was amazing." "To know that in a direct competition we've sent people that we've looked up to home, is a crazy thing to process." "Shock." "Straight shock." "This is not the last stop for us." "We're moving forward." "We're gonna come back stronger and better than ever." "And hopefully go on the tour with J-Lo 'cause she... she promised us that last round." "It's just an honor to be able to take the stage with them and actually be able to take that and move on." " Good day." " Thank you, guys." " Thanks for coming out!" " Thank you for your energy!"