'AGT: All-Stars': Ukrainian Light Balance Kids receive Golden Buzzer - USA TODAY

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Good conscionable isn't bully capable on "America's Got Talent: All-Stars."

NBC's super-competition (Mondays astatine 8 EST/PST) assembles past champions and fierce contestants for an 8-week conflict successful which 60 acts from crossed the globe propulsion down to beryllium crowned the champion of the best.

On Monday's premiere, 10 hopeful acts – including Season 2 champ, ventriloquist Terry Fator; the 2nd victor of "Canada's Got Talent," singer Jeanick Fournier; and aerialist Alan Silva, an "AGT" finalist for Season 15 – performed for judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel, the lone evaluator with the quality to nonstop an enactment to the finals by mode of the Golden Buzzer this episode. The 2nd spot successful the last would beryllium voted connected by a sheet of "superfans." The different 8 acts would beryllium eliminated. 

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Light Balance Kids provided a agleam spot successful the two-hour opener. The radical of (mostly) young dancers wears lights portion performing arsenic the signifier lights are lowered. Since the radical archetypal competed connected "AGT" successful 2019, their location of Kyiv, Ukraine has travel nether onslaught from Russia.

A subordinate of the radical said immoderate traveled to the contention solo due to the fact that "some of our parents, similar my father, are inactive successful the warfare successful Ukraine. He's warring for our state for independency and freedom." She remembered waking up astatine 4 a.m. erstwhile "my household grabbed maine and we (ran) to the underground presumption due to the fact that it was bombs and rockets everywhere."

Another dancer added the radical was blessed to instrumentality "to amusement the satellite that airy ever wins."

Light Balance Kids, Golden Buzzer recipients successful Season 14, got Klum moving on with their upbeat choreography to "Move Your Feet." Their regular earned a lasting ovation from the audience.

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"This was specified a amusive party, and it needs to beryllium longer!" raved Klum.

Cowell was arsenic impressed. "It was your champion show you've ever done," helium said. "Really. By a mile." Reflecting connected what the radical has experienced, Cowell added, "If thing defines an All-Star, it was that performance, really."

"There's specified an astonishing connection here," Mandel agreed. "Where you travel from, astatine this point it's arguably the darkest spot successful the world, and you travel crossed the globe to bring america light. And if I tin bash anything, anything connected behalf of America, connected behalf of 'AGT: All-Stars,' to bring you adjacent much airy than you've brought us, I'd similar to bash that for you."

And with that helium deed the Golden Buzzer, firing a ablution of confetti astatine the dancers. Then, Mandel joined them connected stage. "You're amazing!" helium said. "You're my favourite act ever! I emotion you!"

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Mandel's usage of the Golden Buzzer meant determination was lone 1 much spot for a competing enactment from Monday's amusement successful the finals. Show host Terry Crews revealed the sheet of fan's Top 3: the Bello Sisters, an unbelievably limber trio who danced to a slowed-down rendition of A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran"; vocalist Caly Bevier, who belted an archetypal song; and Fator, who dazzled the judges with 2 puppets singing "Rocket Man."

Cowell said helium would've voted Fator done to the finals if helium could, and Klum expressed her anticipation that the fans would propulsion him done also. Fator is simply a harmless bet, astatine slightest for Las Vegas. After winning his season, helium was offered a five-year Vegas residency for $100 million.

But the superfans had their sights acceptable connected different act. They selected the acrobatic Bello Sisters, finalists from Season 15, to determination guardant to the finals.

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"Wow!" a shocked Cowell said.

“I would ne'er conjecture that,” Mandel told Cowell.

“You’ve conscionable beaten the champion of the best,” Cowell told the sister act. "Congratulations."

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