We weren’t ready to throw everything that we’d worked so hard for under the bus in exchange for a quick buck. Our show was in an embryonic phase and we felt that we didn’t have the time to put together a hour and a half long show that would live up to expectations. We just didn’t feel it was the right time. It was one of the most difficult decisions we’ve ever made, but we had to turn it down. I remember getting a call and getting offered a headline spot in Las Vegas while we were on tour a few weeks after the show. What opportunities did the show open up for your group? When we made it to the finale we were absolutely humbled. When we made it to the finals, we were surprised. We never thought we’d make it that far and it was a very humbling experience at the same time.Īfter competing, you received third place, how did it feel to make it so far? So, to be considered as the frontrunner of the competition throughout the show and make it as a finalist was a surprise to all of us. We never thought we’d make it to the finals none of us had ever performed before or been on a stage.
All of us just thought it would be our “15 minutes of fame” and be nice way to get away from our engineering and business classes for a few days and take a stab on being on TV.
We thought nothing of it until we finally got a call one day asking us to audition for the show. When one of our members submitted the video, he didn’t hear back for three months. What inspired you to join “America’s Got Talent”? There are a few of us who will head up creative direction, but at the end of the day it’s a collective effort from all of 13 members. The shows are very intricate, involving different elements.ĭoes one particular person choreograph the performance? Just the one charity talent show in 2009, before “America’s Got Talent.” The crowd went insane, absolutely insane. What were some of the first shows or performances put on by the Fighting Gravity? How did audiences react to seeing this type of show? I was really just thrown into that position. I’ve never danced or ever performed in my life (other than my sixth grade play). I’m one of the three main white dancers from the show. What is your role in the Fighting Gravity? As soon as we hit the stage, though, the crowd went absolutely ballistic and everyone was standing on their feet at the end of the show.Īfter that, one of our members submitted the video to “America’s Got Talent” and the rest is history. There was a crowd of 3,000 students and we were nervous. We weren’t sure what people would think of it in 2009 and we were one of the last people to perform that night of the charity talent show. We started this group in 2009 to perform for charity talent show at Virginia Tech raising money and awareness for the visually impaired. There are 13 of us that make up the group Fighting Gravity. I’m a brother of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. That name just stuck and we just went with it.
We never had a name for our group before “America’s Got Talent” and we were all sitting around trying to come up with a name when one of our members just threw it out there.
The name comes from our gravity-defying illusions. Kang talked to about the dance troupe, being runner-up for “America’s Got Talent” and what the future holds for Fighting Gravity. The Virginia Tech students utilize black lights and sheer creativity to create their hypnotic illusions. Kang, whose first love is investing in the stock market, stumbled into the world of dance when he and his fraternity brothers decided to perform in a school talent show. Among the half dozen men there that night was 23-year-old Danny Kang. With less than $100 and a handful of borrowed tools, members of dance troupe Fighting Gravity constructed cratered moons and life-sized rocks for their finale after finding out that “America’s Got Talent” didn’t have the budget to create certain props and elements the team need for the stage. In the back alley, five or six young men armed with foam and papier-mâché gathered together to shape what would later become elements for an out-of-this-world stage setup. Hysterical laughter rang through the air behind a Redondo Beach, Calif., studio at 3 a.m.
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