Top 20 “Meet the Dancers” show and Couples Spoilers!
On the eve of the “meet the top 20” show (an awesome idea I must say), I have uncovered some spoilers about the show and about the top 20 couples!
p.s. thanks to Emilie for putting up the schedule for the first few weeks of the show. additionally, and I cringe as I write this as an anti-Yankees baseball fan, thank the Yankees for wrapping up their series last night. If they had lost, game 7 would have been tonight instead of SYTYCD!
**warning, these are spoilers!!**
Meet the Top 20 Intro Show
opening group performance: Wade Robson! (so excited!)
Russell, Legacy, Kevin: Hip Hip choreographed by Nappy Tabs
–I love Nappy Tabs but am I wrong to wish it was Shane? A Shane routine with these three guys would be awesome!
Jakob, Nathan, Channing, Ariana: comtemporary choreographed by Tyce
Phillip, Bianca, Peter: tap
-not sure who the choreographer is, it would be cool to get Sean Cheesman from SYTYCD Canada, he did an awesome tap piece for finalist Everett and eventual winner Tara-Jean this season.
Mollee, Pauline, Ellenore: jazz choreographed by Sonya
-I kinda like this, it has potential
Billy, Victor, Noelle, Kathryn: contemporary from Mandy Moore
-yay Mandy’s back! Man, I didn’t realize there were 8 contemporary dancers this year!
Ryan, Ashleigh, Karen: ballroom from Jason Gilkinson
-he is the director and choreographer of the award-winning Burn the Floor, currently on Broadway with SYTYCD’s Pasha and Anya! He did pieces for Courtney and Mark and Katee and Joshua during S4 and routinely choreographs for SYTYCD Australia.
Top 20 pairings-they got their partners and their styles after the Meet the Dancers show (get excited!)
Phillip & Channing-jive
Nathan & Mollee-Doriana Sanchez (disco)
*Brandon & Pauline-smooth waltz
Jakob & Ashleigh-Tyce DiOrio (broadway)
Russell & Noelle-Tony and Melanie (foxtrot)
Karen & Kevin-cha cha
Victor & Bianca-Travis Wall (contemporary)
Legacy & Kathryn-Dave Scott (hip hop)
Peter & Ariana-NappyTabs (hip hop)
Ryan & Ellenore-Sonya Tayeh (jazz)
*according to our friends at SYTYCDism, poor Billy Bell has gotten sick and had to pull out of the show! They have replaced him with Brandon Dumlao, a dancer many thought would make the Top 20. Additionally, Noelle has injured her ankle and won’t be performing on the first top 20 show. Melanie LaPatin will take her place, like she did for Jessi during her cha cha with Pasha in S3. No one is sure what is going to happen at the moment.*
So the season is crazy and it hasn’t even started yet! what are your thoughts on the top 20 pairings?! The Legacy/Kathryn pairing is intriguing to me because it could either be really good or really bad. I didn’t see enough of Kathryn during Vegas to get a good sense of her dancing. I haven’t really warmed to Legacy yet, but we’ll see. I love Nathan and Mollee and I think Victor and Bianca is an interesting one, too. Brandon and Pauline danced together during Vegas and they seemed to have great chemistry. I also like the Ryan/Ariana pairing, the age difference (Ryan is 28 and Ariana is 18!) could be an interesting twist, I don’t think they’ve ever had a couple with such a big age gap (Ade and Melissa came close, he’s 20 and she’s 29, but it didn’t seem to be a big deal).
Okay, enough of my opinions, comment away!
It very possible that the tapper may be self choreographed…savion glover as their choreographer would be awesome. I with you on the Kathryn and legacy thing I know what she can do but im worried bout him but i do think they would look good together
Group routine by Wade Robson!! I’m swooning over here. That’s insane that we already have injuries this early in the season. It’s too bad that Billy Bell had to pull out. I wonder if he’ll be in next season’s Top 20 or what. I like Brandon Dumlao, so I’m glad he’s getting a shot. I’m excited about the Sonya jazz and what if Ryan choreographed the tappers??? Amanda’s right though, it may be self-choreographed. This pairings mostly seem strange to me on paper – I can’t wait to see if it makes more sense in the dancing. Thanks, Margaret!!
ahhh soo excited!! i didn’t watch t he auditions but i’ve been hearing about some of the standouts … jakobbbb 🙂 … really excited!
jason gilkison has far greater credentials than burn the floor. he is a world reknowned and respected choreographer and has done 2 seasons of SYTYCD australia, his home country, to great effect.
check out this gilkison paso doble with rhys and gemma. i think it is mt favorite competition piece from all the english speaking seasons.
thanks for the note bandanajack! i do know that jason gilkison is such a well respected choreographer, I figured that SYTYCD fans would recognize Pasha and Anya.
He has done a couple of pieces on the US version of SYTYCD during season 4, courtney and mark’s viennese waltz and katee and joshua’s paso doble.
i think it’s awesome that he’s back, i’ve really enjoyed the pieces he’s done
please tell me it isn’t true about billy bell… even if it is. i was really looking forward to the war of the contemporary dancers. frankly, although he has quite a vocal following, i never was impressed by brandon. i’ll be surprised if he can win me over.
did anyone hear what ails billy, and does he have a contact site, facebook or twitter?
btw, i don’t know if it was the same elsewhere, but dwts ran opposite sytycd tonight, and i don’t have dvr. i scrambled…a lot.
……. BILLY. BELL.