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Mary Murphy Discusses So You Think You Can Dance Season 9

Time for a great discussion of SYTYCD season 9 and ballroom dancing on SYTYCD with Mary Murphy. I think this interview does a good job of showing what Mary Murphy is really like. She’s much more calm and not playing it up for the big cameras. I liked talking with her about ballroom dancing on SYTYCD. Plus, Mary Murphy talks about the change from SYTYCD Top 20 to only 18 dancers making the finale. I also ask her what she thinks about having ballroom dancers “dance for their life” with a partner.

In case you missed it, be sure to check out my interview with Cat Deeley about SYTYCD 2012 and with Nigel Lythgoe as well.

May 21, 2012 I Written By

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Lil C Discusses SYTYCD Season 9 Buckness

The next in my set of interviews with the SYTYCD season 9 Las Vegas week judges is with Lil C. It was an interesting interview. He basically dances as he talks, so you’ll see a lot of camera movement. He reveals the name of one act that makes it to Las Vegas. Plus, he adds a lot of info on how he looks at dancing. Enjoy!

In case you missed it, be sure to check out my interview with Cat Deeley about SYTYCD 2012 and with Nigel Lythgoe as well.

May 10, 2012 I Written By

Just call me Charlie...but where are my angels?

Adam Shankman Discusses SYTYCD Season 9 and His Other Projects

The next in my set of interviews with the SYTYCD season 9 Las Vegas week judges is with Adam Shankman. In it, Adam Shankman discusses SYTYCD season 9 and what differentiates the dancers. He also talks about his other dance projects including: Rock of Ages, Step Up Revolution (4), Glee, and This Is Where I Leave You (non-dance), and an action adventure version of the Nutcracker.

In case you missed it, be sure to check out my interview with Cat Deeley about SYTYCD 2012 and with Nigel Lythgoe as well.

May 7, 2012 I Written By

Just call me Charlie...but where are my angels?

Nigel Lythgoe Talks About MAJOR CHANGE Coming to SYTYCD Season 9

The next in my set of interviews with the SYTYCD season 9 Las Vegas week judges and host is with Nigel Lythgoe. In this video, Nigel primes the marketing meter with what he calls a “Major Change” to SYTYCD and one that when we see the change we’ll wonder, “Why didn’t you do that years ago?” Of course, he’s not letting the cat out of the bag yet, although I did try to press him for more information. No, the major change he’s talking about isn’t SYTYCD Cancelling the Results show. What do you think the major change is?

Also, Nigel was right about the Ballroom girls of SYTYCD Season 9 killing it. They were by far my favorite! Now for the video interview of Nigel Lythgoe:

In case you missed it, be sure to check out my interview with Cat Deeley about SYTYCD 2012 as well.

May 4, 2012 I Written By

Just call me Charlie...but where are my angels?

Video of Cat Deeley Discussing So You Think You Can Dance Season 9

As those of you who follow @puresytycd probably saw, I was lucky enough to be able to attend the first day of SYTYCD Season 9 Las Vegas week. The experience was fantastic and the dancers were as wonderful as you could imagine. I’ll have to do a full write up on the experience of the Live taping. I of course can’t reveal specific dancers, but there’s still plenty I can share.

More importantly, while there I was able to get interviews with Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, Lil’ C, Adam Shankman, Mary Murphy, and Debbie Allen. Over the next couple weeks I’ll be posting all of the interviews.

The first SYTYCD season 9 interview is with Cat Deeley. Might I say on a personal level, Cat Deeley is just as fantastic in person as she is on camera. You can tell she’s a real sweetheart and someone you’d love to go out with and have a drink. I think the best way to describe her is she’s just real. There’s nothing fake or hidden about her. She’s comfortable with who she is and she shares it with the world. She’s also incredibly easy to interview as you’ll see in this video. Enjoy!

Also, I couldn’t resist being a fan for at least a moment of time with Cat. So, I had this picture taken of me and her:

For those that might be wondering, yes, Cat’s just as stunningly, stunningly beautiful in person as on TV.

April 25, 2012 I Written By

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So You Think You Can Dance Season 9 Auditions – Los Angeles

So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) held auditions for Season 9 in Los Angeles and DanceOn was there! We have interviews with host Cat Deeley, judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, choreographer Stacey Tookey and executive producer Jeff Thacker, where they tell us about the upcoming season! Video Below 🙂

March 7, 2012 I Written By

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Fox Cancels SYTYCD Results Show – Big Changes Coming

In case you’re not an avid Twitter follower of Nigel (@dizzyfeet) you might have missed some of Nigel’s tweets today that talk about some big changes that will be coming to SYTYCD 2012. Here are the tweets from Nigel Lythgoe:


Of course, I’m a little intrigued and a bit shocked that the results show has been cancelled. It will take some time for me to process this idea and think of whether this is a really good or bad thing. There’s no doubt that SYTYCD hasn’t done what Fox would like it to do and if this next season wasn’t good then I wouldn’t be surprised if SYTYCD is cancelled all together. So, I guess it makes sense for Fox to cancel the results show as a preliminary step.

My gut feeling says that this could be a good thing. If done right it could bring new life into SYTYCD. Change is not always good, but if done right it can be great. One thing that I think I’ll miss most from the results shows is the group dance. Those group dances were some of the best dances that SYTYCD put together. They were always fun and exciting. I hope Nigel and Fox find a way to somehow incorporate the group dances still.

Another interesting thing is how “dancing for your life” will work. To be honest, it never really felt like they were dancing for their life. At least not since SYTYCD season 2 where I may have just been uninformed to how it was really working. I can only think of once or twice when the “dancing for your life” may have made any real impact on the judges. They basically already know who they want to have leave most of the time.

I’m sure I’m missing other things, but wanted to get this out there to hear your thoughts.


I love when Nigel says British things like “series” as opposed to “season”. I’d love to hear from anyone that plans to go to the SYTYCD Auditions in Atlanta.


I’m optimistic like Nigel. Fox really has been great to keep SYTYCD around for 9 seasons. As I said above, they need to breathe some new life into SYTYCD or it will be cancelled, so I say let’s swing for the fences. 9 seasons is great for a TV show, but I definitely would like another 9 seasons of SYTYCD!

My best suggestion for Nigel Lythgoe and Mike Darnell is to search for more unpolished dancers that we can see become polished over the arc of the series. Mix that with some tremendous dancers and we’ll have another great season.

January 1, 2012 I Written By

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So You Think You Can Dance Renewed for 2012 (Season 9)

It was announced today that Fox has chosen to pickup up SYTYCD for another season in 2012. Here’s the tweet from Nigel:
https://twitter.com/#!/dizzyfeet/status/122055808623185920

That’s right, this will be So You Think You Can Dance season 9. Pretty awesome that it’s been around so long and that is was renewed after SYTYCD Canada was cancelled. While I don’t think the ratings have been as strong as they’d like, the show does have a really strong loyal following. Although, I’m not sure that we’ll get a SYTYCD season 10 in 2013 if the ratings for SYTYCD 2012 aren’t better than they were this year. The tone of Nigel’s tweet shows his excitement for the renewal which to me says renewal of SYTYCD wasn’t a sure thing. Maybe Nigel and the SYTYCD producers should take a look at some suggestions to improve SYTYCD.

October 6, 2011 I Written By

Just call me Charlie...but where are my angels?