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Gustavo Vargas is an amazing dancer, choreographer and actor, who played a salsa dancer in the movie “Along came Polly”. He choreographed a number of routines on SYTYCD Canada and recently debuted as a choreographer on SYTYCD USA Season 6.

In So You Think You Can Dance Canada Season 2 Gustavo choreographed:

His Salsa Dance for Mollee and Nathan in Top 16 didn’t fair well as Mollee and Nathan received a lot of critiques from the judges and though the dancers chemistry and technique were off, Gustavo’s choreography was fantastic.

Nigel identified the good things in Guastavo’s routine and Mary pointed out how Gustavo is known as “suavo” for being suave and that Nathan lacked that emotion in the routine.

Nonetheless Nathan felt “HOT” and I personally enjoyed the routine.

I look forward to see more Gustavo on SYTYCD.

First of all, hello, I am Mandy and I am from Vancouver Canada and post on http://www.puresytycd.com/canadasite regularly but will be posting periodically here on the USA site also.

That being said, I have to tell you how thrilled I was to see Canadian Choreographers Maria Torres (an American but was on SYTYCD Canada show), Stacey Tookey, and newcomers Gustavo Vargas and Sean Cheesman, who have done some amazing stuff for the Canadian show.

I’d like to touch on each of these wonderful choreographers throughout the week, but for now, let’s look at the AMAZING Sean Cheesman.

Sean Cheesman choreographing on last weeks show was a great surprise for me. He is one of my favourite judges and choreographers on SYTYCD Canada and has brought so much greatness to our Canadian Show.

His Afrojazz routine for Noelle & Russell  was amazing and in my opinion one of the best of the evening.

They danced to “Frog Dance” -by Mickey Hart & Planet Drum, and Sean Cheeseman threw in all his tricks, really showcasing his  amazing choreography and giving Noelle and Russell a much needed spotlight.

I am so glad to see him choreogrpah on SYTYCD as it has a wider audience than SYTYCD Canada.  I really hope they invite him back for more this season and in the future seasons too as he is truly an awesome choreographer.

Sean Cheesman’s bio reads:

Calgary native Sean Cheesman is an internationally-renowned director/choreographer who has worked with some of the world’s top entertainers, including Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, TLC, Prince, Vanessa Williams, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, and Britney Spears.

Cheesman has toured with Janet Jackson as a choreographer and dancer and subsequently choreographed tours for Prince. Cheesman appeared in and choreographed the film The Bodyguard and most recently was the host and lead judge of the U.K. television series Dirty Dancing: Time of Your Life.

Sean just completed choreographing the largest stage revue show in Berlin, Germany.

He is also the recipient of numerous awards, including two MTV awards for choreography, a “What’s on Stage” theatre award for the West-End musical Daddy Cool, and was also nominated for a Bob Fosse choreography award.

Finally, things get back to normal in the SYTYCD-verse. Two episodes this week!!

SYTYCD Season 6 Top 16 Routines Music -

Maria Torres hustle (Karen & Kevin): “Come to Me” -France Joli

Mandy Moore jazz (Ashleigh & Jakob): “Relax” -Frankie Goes to Hollywood

JT & Tomas dreaded quickstep (Pauline & Peter): “Hey Baby! (Shake Those Hula Hips)” -Big Kahuna & The Copa Cat Pack

Andy Blankenbuehler great Broadway (Kathryn & Legacy): “I Wanna Be Like You” -Swingin’ Fireballs

Stacey Tookey contemporary (Channing & Victor): “Be Be Your Love” KCRW version -Rachael Yamagata

Lil C hip hop (Elleanore & Ryan): “Lost Boiz Anthem” -Tha J-Squad (not on iTunes – try “Stop That” )

Gustavo Vargas salsa (Mollee & Nathan): “Quimbara” -Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco

Sean Cheesman Afrojazz (Noelle & Russell): “Frog Dance” -Mickey Hart & Planet Drum

Hi friends!
courtesy of Idolforums.com and our friends at SYTYCDism, here are the preliminary top 16 spoilers, I will update them as I find out more!

**spoilers after the jump**

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So You Think You Can Dance Canada has some of the most talent I’ve seen on the dance floor. The top 10 are some of the most talented individuals I’ve seen. I’m sure if you’ve seen the talent in the top 10 show of So You Think You Can Dance you’d agree with me. Here’s the music from all the SYTYCDC top 10 dancers including their group numbers and their solo dances.

Izaak Smith and Natalli Reznik danced a Hip-hop to the song “Mama Said Knock You Out”—LL Cool J choreographed by Sho-Tyme

Danny Arbour and Kaitlyn Fitzgerald danced a Mambo to the song “Salsa y Sabor”—Tito Puente choreographed by Tony Meredith and Melanie LaPatin

Nico Archambault and Allie Bertram danced a Waltz to the song “That’s Life”—Michael Bublé choreographed by Amy Wright

Vincent-Oliver Noiseux and Arassay Reyes danced a Disco to the song “Hot N Cold”—Katy Perry choreographed by Melissa Williams

Miles Faber and Lisa Auguste danced a Contemporary to the song “Soulmate”—Natasha Bedingfield choreographed by Sean Cheesman

Solos:
Vincent-Oliver Noiseux danced a solo to the song “Pour Gabrielle”—Jorane

Arassay Reyes danced a solo to the song “Eyes on Me”—Celine Dion

Lisa Auguste danced a solo to the song “Secret”—Missy Higgins

Miles Faber danced a solo to the song “Juice (Know the Ledge)”—Eric B. & Rakim

Danny Arbour danced a solo to the song “Closer”—Ne-Yo

Kaitlyn Fitzgerald danced a solo to the song “Best for Last”—Adele

Allie Bertram danced a solo to the song “Fun for Me”—Moloko

Nico Archambault danced a solo to the song “Halo”—The Pinup Saints

Natalli Reznik danced a solo to the song “Quimbara”—Celia Cruz

Izaak Smith danced a solo to the song “No One”—Alicia Keys

Check out all the music from previous So You Think You Can Dance Canada episodes. Not to mention the amazing talent.

The Top 12 of So You Think You Can Dance Canada is now the top 10. Check out the music from the group number along with the music the bottom 3 couples danced to during the Top 12 elimination show.

So You Think You Can Dance Canada Group dance to the song “I Surrender” —Celine Dion (contemporary; Choreographer: Blake McGrath)

Miles Faber danced a solo to the song “New Jack”—Justice (French band)

Francis Lafreniere danced a solo to the song “Aint Nothing Wrong With That”—”Robert Randolph & The Family Band”

Danny Arbour danced a solo to the song “Save Your Scissors”—”City and Colour”

– Music Video
Lara Smythe danced a solo to the song “Africa”—”Toto”

Natalli Reznik danced a solo to the song “Toy Soldier”—Britney Spears

Allie Bertram danced a solo to the song “Don Quixote (ballet) (Act I)”—Ludwig Minkus

Eliminated:
Lara Smythe
Francis Lafreniere

Check out the performances from the So You Think You Can Dance Top 12

Check out the videos from the SYTYCDC Top 14 results show

Check out the So You Think You Can Dance Canada 14 Performance videos

A nice list of the top 12 music from SYTYCDC. Check out previous SYTYCDC music.

Francis Lafreniere and Natalli Reznik danced a Salsa to the song “Hasta Que Se Rompa el Cuero” – Sonora Carruseles choreographed by Gustavo Vargas

Danny Arbour and Allie Bertram danced a Hip Hop to the song “In the Ayer”—Flo Rida feat. will.i.am choreographed by Luther Brown

– Music Video
Miles Faber and Lara Smythe danced a Foxtrot to the song “Summer Wind”—Michael Bublé choreographed by Danny Quilliam

Izaak Smith and Kaitlyn Fitzgerald danced a Jive to the song Untouched—The Veronicas choreographed by Dmitry Chaplin

– Music Video
Nico Archambault and Arassay Reyes danced a Jazz to the song It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World—James Brown choreographed by Paul Becker

Vincent-Oliver Noiseux and Lisa Auguste danced a House to the song 100% Pure Love—Crystal Waters choreographed by Sho-Tyme

– Music Video