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Former SYTYCD dancers have been tweeting about the Oscars for a while (as has Adam Shankman), so I was prepared to look for them. There were stunning performances to the nominated songs. The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers were amazing! I only managed to recognize Kayla dancing during the regular telecast (she was very prominent), but after watching Rickey’s video, I was able to identify more dancers – Kathryn, I’m pretty sure, and definitely Travis Wall. Among others that I’m sure you’ll catch. As always, Ricky has a great video from the Oscar performance, so check it out!

Rickey has a still of a Kupono sighting (HOW did he get that seat?!) and I think Kupono summed up Oscar night best via Twitter:

alohakupono

OSCARs was ABSOLUtELY RiDiCULOuS!!!! Now it’s off to the AFTeR PARtY for SCANDaLS of the YEAR!!!!!! 40 minutes ago via mobile web

But y’all, there is SO MUCH cool chatting happening on Twitter, you have to check out all your favorite dancers via John’s SYTYCD list.

I found some great videos for you. First, a “Meet the Choreographers” video with Adam and both Kayla and Travis as assistant choreographers. And a slew of fun audition videos, including a “Behind the Screen” one.

Yay to Adam for making his SYTYCD dancers so prominent at the Oscars. I hope he produces again!

PureSYTYCD commenter Ben (thanks, dude!) spotted a distinctive SYTYCD alumni and wrote us:

At least ONE SYTYCD dancer in the new video for The Black Eyed Peas’ Double A-Side release, “Imma Be”/”Rock That Body”. Nathan sighting in the second half, wearing one of his hats.

Ben, you’re right! Nathan is clearly visible at 6:26 and at several parts after that. I thought I saw Russell a few times (what do y’all think?). Can anybody identify any of the other dancers, especially the girls? This is a great remix video, very fun and it was cool to see Nathan and other (?) SYTYCD alumni strutting their stuff.

I wonder if the Black Eyed Peas were into using SYTYCD alumni after meeting some of the dancers when they performed on the show.

Thanks again for writing us, Ben. Here’s the video, y’all:

Check out a solo performance Jakob just Tweeted about!

Jakob performing solo

Shhhhh! Don’t tell John I’m sneaking onto the site to post this. Some friends of mine were in a spectacular dancing flash mob choreographed to OutKast’s “Hey Ya” . I can’t stop compulsively watching this video, so I thought y’all might like it.

The guy dancing on his own at the beginning is the choreographer of the mob’s routine, Leonard Augustus.

If you post a lot of comments saying how glad you are I posted this, John can’t be mad at me. It *is* dancing, after all, John, so it’s related!

I must admit that I don’t follow Blake McGrath all that much, but there’s no doubt he’s a great dancer and a really interesting personality. I usually hate people that are totally full of themselves, but Blake is so full of himself that he makes me laugh. Well, I’m sure those that follow Blake McGrath have known this for a couple weeks, but it looks like Blake is trying to be a music artist now. Here’s a sneak peek video of Blake McGath’s first music video:

Kind a cool looking video. I think Blake’s really smart to mix in some amazing dancing with his music. Means he could do really well. You can follow Black on Twitter @blakemcgrath.

Here’s a present for y’all. I just stumbled upon a great 2-part interview of Cat Deely on a British show. As always, she’s gorgeous, wearing a beautiful dress and very, very funny. Bonus – there’s a video of her modeling on a British tv show at 17 that’s totally worth watching. And she dances! Enjoy.

John hates Cat, so he’ll probably mind that I’m putting this up. Lol. Not really. We both love her. Don’t we all?

I know that many of you are looking for the video of So You Think You Can Dance UK. Someone was kind enough to upload it to YouTube for all to be able to enjoy week 1 of SYTYCD UK. It’s divided into 15 clips below and it should just stream one video after the other. I still need to watch and make sure I got the order correct for the results show, but I think I’m pretty close. I’ll update the post once I’ve watched and know the order of SYTYCD UK week 1 videos are correct. The special guest is off, but I like it better that way. Then, you see the solos right before the judges comments.

You should also check out the full list of SYTYCD UK week 1 music.

Feel free to start a discussion about the first SYTYCD UK performance episode in the comments as well. Plenty to talk about I’m sure.

And here are the videos for the Top 7 Girls of Season 1 of SYTYCD UK. Enjoy!

Anabel Kutay
(Apparently, hers is not available like the others. I’ll put it up when/if it is)

Charlie Bruce

Chloe Campbell

Hayley Newton

Lizzie Gough

Mandy Montanez

Yanet Fuentes

Enjoy these videos to introduce the Top 7 Guys from Season 1 of SYTYCD UK!

Alastair Poslethwaite

Chris Piper

Drew McOine

Gavin Tsang

Mark Calape

Robbie White

Tommy Franzen

The title pretty much speaks for itself. For all of us who wished we could’ve been at the Gala, Lyndsey Parker was there and interviewed several dancers on the Red Carpet. It’s a long video with, among others, Adam Shankman, Jeanine, Lacey, Quest Dance Crew, Derek Hough, Mary Murphy, Season 5 dancers Kayla and Melissa with Caitlin and Jason in the background, as well as Ade talking to Katee, Cheryl Burke and Mark Ballas. Enjoy!

Dizzy Feet Gala: Reality Rocks’ Red-Carpet Interviews from Yahoo! Music on Vimeo.