Glen Head's Lambros Garcia wows judges, audience on 'America's Got Talent' audition

On “America’s Got Talent” Tuesday night, 10-year-old dancer Lambros Garcia of Glen Head got all four judges and the audience on their feet with his audacious audition, securing unanimous approval to move on to the next phase of NBC’s long-running variety-act competition.

Dressed all in black except for a green, sequined jacket, the Glenwood Landing Elementary School student performed as the first act of the night, dancing a sharply choreographed routine to Billy Porter’s “Love Yourself,” complete with spins, a cartwheel and other acrobatics. Afterward he teared up joyfully, as his equally tearful mother, Angela Scaliotis-Garcia, stood in the wings with his father, Christopher Garcia, and younger sister, Anastasia.

When judge Heidi Klum asked what was making him so emotional, he replied, “I get a little bit bullied at school and this solo really meant a lot to me.”

“You danced with such joy, with such precision,” judge Howie Mandel said. “You’ve got to be strong, you’ve got to be an athlete, you’ve got to be amazing. And performing the way you just did,” he added puckishly, “is the ultimate nyah-na-na-nyah-nyah.”

“A lot of people don't really know what it is to be a male dancer,” responded Lambros, who gets his dance training at Mossa Dance Academy in New Hyde Park. “And I love it so much and I'm never going to let anyone stop that.”

Judge Sofía Vergara assured the youth, “They bully you because they envy you. They can’t do what you can do … . That was spectacular.”

And judge Simon Cowell, having the last word, told Lambros, “You have natural stage presence and that’s something you can’t fake. Now, you’re going to go back to school with your head held high saying, ‘I did this and I was brave enough to do this and I was amazing,’ because you were amazing. And if they start again, those bullies, you tell them me, Terry [Crews, the show's host and a former NFL pro] and Howie — actually I'm going to bring Heidi and Sofía as well — we’re coming down to sort them out.”

Earlier, during his introduction, Lambros explained how he had taken up dance. “My mom used to put me in karate classes,” he said, “and I heard the music through the wall because there was a dance studio right next [to it], and I used to dance to the beat and my sensei would get annoyed. So then my mom saw a passion in me that I had for dance.”

And what would he do, he was asked, with the competition’s grand prize of $1 million? “I would like to have a dog,” he answered with a smile.