Can Bonomo needs to give his choreographer Candas Bas a big wet kiss. Her vision—and ability to scout hot back-up dancers—turned Turkey’s act into one of this year’s most memorable. She caught up WiwiBloggs.Com’s Deban Aderemi at the Baku airport before her flight back to Istanbul. In the video below she explains that the original LED background was too childish, and discusses the difficulties of getting the act off the ground. “Finding the dancers was a very difficult job for me. I had the audition, and everybody was busy,” she remembers. In the end, though, it all came together. “We were breathing together and we created together and they made it [come] alive.”

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