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Nigel recently talked in an interview about his new show which is a sort of dance olympics:

Nigel describes his new dance show as basically a dance Olympics with dancers from all over the world and judges from all over the world also. Judges would only get to score those dancers that weren’t from their country. Sounds like it could be really interesting or really lame depending on how well the show is produced.

In a separate place, Nigel Lythgoe talks about Dancing with the Stars and fat dancers. I like that Nigel is happy to share the dancers between the various shows. Makes a lot of sense to me and I’m glad he sees that these dancers need work. It does make me wonder what kinds of contracts people on these shows sign to participate.

I was also very interesting in Nigel mentioning that Dancing with the Stars was possibly interested in having Chelsie Hightower on the show. She’s a great dancer. Quite the tom boy as you might recall, but she’d be pretty entertaining on the show. I’d be interested to see how versatile she is just as I was interested to see how versatile Lacey was when she made the switch.

Nigel is also pretty open about the idea of fat dancers. He doesn’t address specifically if Lacey Schwimmer is a fat dancer or not, but he does say there are a number of fat dancers that shouldn’t be dancing. I appreciate his comments there. It’s just not pleasant to watch. People are welcome and encouraged to dance if they are overweight, but don’t make the rest of us watch it. It’s just not pretty.

The music of Italian singer Elisa Toffoli has been featured a number of times on SYTYCD. Here’s a list of all Elisa Toffoli’s So You Think You Can Dance connections.

Since thousands of people are still visiting this site to check out all the great So You Think You Can Dance music, I decided that I should give away a couple of Elisa Toffoli’s CDs.

One CD I plan on giving to one person at random from anyone who comments on this post or if you want to remain private you can ask to be entered in the contest by asking on our Contact Us page.

I haven’t decided how I’ll give away the other CD. Try and blow me away somehow. Do something cool and exciting. For example, post a link to this blog somewhere that will drive thousands of people to it. Make an incredibly insightful and cool comment somewhere. Make me laugh. Basically do something that will be beneficial for the Pure SYTYCD community or at least get my attention in some nice way.

I’ll end the competition September 29. Enough time for you to get Elisa’s CD before Elisa’s US and Canadian Tour.

Any questions, feel free to ask away.

If you don’t want to wait for the giveaway, then you can always go buy Elisa Toffoli’s CD: Dancingon Amazon.

I don’t know how many of you have been following my list of So You Think You Can Dance Music, but one of the interesting artists that’s had their music on multiple seasons of So You Think You Can Dance is Elisa Toffoli.

So far, Elisa Toffoli’s music has been on SYTYCD at least 3 times that I know of:
Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron dancing to Elisa’s song “Dancing” to Mia Michaels choreography. Here’s a video of Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron dancing to “Dancing”:

Some people have called this dance their favorite SYTYCD dance of all time. My favorite part is when Lacey leaps into Kameron’s arms at about the 1:15 mark.

The song Dancing sung by Elisa was also performed by Kelli Baker during the Salt Lake City/Dallas audition show:

Finally, Courtney Galiano danced a Top 6 solo to the song “Rock Your Soul” by Elisa

Well, it turns out that Lacey Schwimmer made an unofficial video for Elisa Toffoli’s song “Rainbow.” Honestly, I would have loved to see Lacey do a Rhumba to this song, but Lacey actually did a pretty credible job as an actor in this video. Enjoy:

Also, watch this blog over the next couple weeks, because I plan on giving away some free Elisa Toffoli CDs. My only hint is that if you want some free Elisa Toffoli CDs and music, then it would be a good idea to start adding thoughtful comments to my blog.

Here’s a bunch of videos that I found on Youtube of last years So You Think You Can Dance Champion Sabra Johnson and Lacey Schwimmer dancing it up in a Las Vegas night club. Fun to see them dancing in a more laid back environment.

Lacey Schwimmer getting down and dirty in the background


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2 of the more memorable dances of the night on So You Think You Can Dance were by Lacey Schwimmer and Neil Haskell. The latin jazz wouldn’t have been as memorable if Neil wasn’t without his shirt. However, Neil did bare his chest for the Latin Jazz routine. I’m sure the ladies love Neil for it. There is a lot of talk around the blogosphere that people didn’t like Mia’s choreography for Lacey and Neil’s dance. I agree completely. It wasn’t anything special. Without the story it would have barely been worth watching. Of course the judges love Mia and so they raved about it. I can appreciate the personal nature of it, but the dance itself was little dancing so it’s not making my top 10 dances on So You Think You Can Dance.

Videos of Lacey Schwimmer and Neil Haskell doing latin Jazz - Yes, Neil does have his shirt off

Another video of Lacey Schwimmer and Neil Haskell doing latin Jazz

Lacey and Neil’s Contemporary Routine - Mia Michael’s choreography for her dad

Another Lacey and Neil’s Contemporary Routine - Mia Michael’s choreography for her dad

Another Lacey and Neil’s Contemporary Routine - Mia Michael’s choreography for her dad

Set aside the personal notes and the shirt off and Neil and Lacey had a lackluster night. Luckily the choreography and wardrobe departments came through for them last night.

One of the hottest dances of that night is Lacey and Danny’s Samba routine. Choreographed by none other than Dmitry (sorry if I spelled it wrong, I’m too lazy to check right now). I also love the Dmitry has Heidi helping him out as a partner. I hope that So You Think You Can Dance brings back the dancers from last year on a future results show. That would certainly be something worth watching. Ok, I’m sidetracked.

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Here’s the videos of Danny and Lacey doing the samba. Many of the videos for obvious reasons.

A performance from this season of So You Think You Can Dance. Lacey & Danny performing a Samba. Hip-hip, Chin-chin!

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Well, I’m not really sure if this is considered cheating, but at least Kameron has good taste in the girl he chose out of the audience. Pretty entertaining video from Lacey and Kameron.

Youtube is a great thing since it gives you videos of the dancers on So You Think You Can Dance well before they reached top form and are performing for millions of people on Fox. Here’s a great look back at Lacey Schwimmer dancing to the Lion King. I guess it was Lacey dancing with Brian Cordoba 1995 US OPEN DANCE CHAMPIONSHIP. Pretty entertaining.

I bet Lacey loves that this video is going all over the internet. I guess it might get her more votes on So You Think You Can Dance.

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Just to be fair to Lacey, I thought I’d also show a video of Benji and Lacey Schwimmer performing at THE SHOW (Reno Dance Sensation 07). I bet she likes this video a little bit better.

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