Hot Blood Dance Crew (Chinese: 热血街舞团; pinyin: rèxúe jīewú túan) is an original Chinese reality street dance variety show produced by iQiyi. The show was officially aired and broadcast online on March 17, 2018 on iQiyi.
Contents
Concept
Hot Blood Dance Crew features 191 dancers from within and beyond China, including individual trainees who aren't associated with any agencies. They compete to be voted the best dancer in China.
Mentors
The mentor teams are Luhan & Jackson and William & Victoria.
Notable contestants
Meng Jia (孟佳)
Su Lianya (苏恋雅)
X-Crew Members (AK(阿K), SUTA(秦煜))
Xiao Jie (肖杰) "Locking Jay"
Young-G (养鸡)
Cao Yu (草鱼) "Caster Yu"
Jun Liu (劉隽) 1Million Dance Studio
Liu Yuxin (刘雨昕)
Huang Xiao (Hello Dance)
Rounds
Round 1: Casting
The 191 dancers are stationed around the city. The two teams of mentors, Jackson & Luhan and William & Victoria, must go around using a map of where each crew is to cast dancers. Each team only has 30 spots.
Round 2: Ranking
Within each team dancers must rank themselves from 1-30. They enter one by one, if someone is sitting in the number spot they want, the two do a freestyle battle for it.
Round 3: 1 v. 1 Battle
One by one, starting at number 1, choose an opponent on the same team to do a choreography with. Their team mentor must then eliminate one of them.
Round 4: Group Dance
As a team the remaining 15 dancers must choreograph a 3 minute routine, in 48 hours under the concept ‘Brothers’. Before the performance each team must eliminate 3 people. Within this round team leaders ranked their contestants, the losing team must automatically eliminate their last place member.
Round 5: Bottom 3 survival
The contestants ranked in the bottom 3 must battle with the other team’s bottom 3. Each member is allowed to choose one person not in the bottom 3 to dance with them, making it a 2 v. 2 battle. The losing member of the bottom 3 must leave.
Example; #10 teams up with #2 and they battle #10 and #4 from the other team. If the 10/2 team loses, #10 must leave. The special guests in this round include Galen Hooks and Rie Hata.
Round 6: Singer’s Collaboration
Each mentor randomly chooses a number. That number is the number of people that will perform with a singer of the mentor’s choice. The possible numbers are 1, 5, 7 and 8. They perform against the other team and the losing team must eliminate one member.
International broadcast
Malaysia Astro TV
iQiYi
HTV (Vietnam) - Sàn đấu vũ đạo
Reception
Hot Blood Dance Crew was an immense hit in China, receiving over 1.8 billion views on its final episode; topics relating to the show on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo also received over 20 billion views. Additionally, as one of the year's most followed and discussed Chinese programs, it broke advertising revenue records across the online entertainment industry.