Fourth SYTYCD Season 7 Selected
Nigel just Tweeted:
I am delighted to say that @allisonholker is a #SYTYCD “All-Star.” From Season#2 she will represent Jazz, Contemporary, Broadway & Cultural. 41 minutes ago via web
Since I started watching in Season 3, I don’t know about about Allison Holker. What do y’all think? Here’s a video I just looked at to give me an idea of what Allison will bring to Season 7:
this is fab!! i’m so excited! allison is incredibly talented. she was eliminated in a shocker during top 8 week of season 2. it had pretty much been a foregone conclusion that she was gonna be in the finale, if not win the whole season. she and travis were by far the most talented dancers during their season. the cool thing about that video is watching ivan, her partner. he was an 18 year old hip hop dancer and this was the week that both of them really broke through. their commitment and chemistry was so fantastic. if you watch interviews, she was so proud of him after this dance. ivan actually ended up making it farther (top 6) than she did. i think there have only been a few shocking eliminations during the entirety of the series: blake during S1, allison during S2, will during S4, and Janette during S5. just my opinion though.
YES! I’m stoked!… I started watching SYTYCD during Season 2… and this is one of my fav dances.. I happy.
@Margaret: Don’t forget Kherington, for whom the phrase “they got kherington’d” was invented. 🙂 I’m glad you’re so excited and I did enjoy the video. And just think… Travis could choreograph Allison now.
OOO I DID forget about kherington! That was definitely a shocker. I didn’t realize “they got Kherington’d” had become a phrase! haha
I’ve heard a few people use it. 🙂 It’s probably not just me. Probably. Lol.
There were so many good and memorable dancers in season 2. Allison was vewwy good so I can’t say anything bad about that choice. Looking forward getting to know the remaining 6 😀
@Margaret : Blake wasn’t really that much of a shock I think. He was pretty cocky during the whole season and Karma is a biatch ^.^ Awesome dancer tho !
Btw, Am I the only one nagging Nigel to immortalize SYTYCD by giving out all full seasons on DVD/Blue-ray ? I just love the show… Never get any answer tho *sigh*
@PlainTom: I’m with you on the DVDs. I’ve bemoaned that lack for a long time now. I’ve talked to several friends about this, including John. It it may be too expensive to release DVDs because of all the music rights (and the $ that costs). Ever wonder why Dancing with the Stars has a house band? They must save a lot of cash by covering songs, rather than buying the rights to the actual song for the show. Apparently, you get into a whole other issue with DVDs and the distribution, rather than just broadcasting. Even American Idol only has “Best” and “Worst” of DVDs, right? Not actual Season DVDs.
Still, I hope it can one day be resolved, because I’d LOVE to have DVDs of all the seasons. And if they could release Australia, Canada and UK DVDs, that would rock, too.
I never understood record companies greed when it comes to “borrowing” a song for a number. Everyone wants to get payed. The thing is when I hear a song on SYTYCD I like I go straight to iTunes and buy it. SYTYCD is awesome PR for a lot of musicians in my eyes (They even get to showcase their song with an awesome dance number). It would be a win win situation for a record company if the show was released on DVD. Music reaches the dance fans ears and they make even more money… Oh well, I guess the powers that be sees it in another light ^.^ We can dream I guess 😛
Same thing on YouTube, the old numbers keeps getting removed because of the copyrights. Don’t they know it’s the best PR a song can get by actually being there. It’s not like you get the same quality out of a song by going to youtube every day. We want it on our iPod, Phone, Discman or whatever… oh well I’ll stop whining now *lol*
Give SYTYCD on DVD 😀
i would LOVE to have them on DVD!!
@Plain Tom, I won’t disagree with you about Blake being cocky, but I think the fact that Jamile stayed over Blake was a major shocker. Jamile is doing great things now with LXD, but Blake had been so consistently great the whole season. I think the whole thing was magnified by Blake’s insane solo from that week when he did a backflip but ended sitting up facing forward. I’ve rewound that a hundred times and still can’t figure out how he did it!
Wow, Watching the video again brings chills to my spine. It was after this point where I actually started to change my opinion about Ivan. Aside from Ivan let’s talk about Allison.
Knowing that Contemporary was Allison’s strong point, I was only watching Ivan in that video. However when it was actually Ivan’s turn to showcase his style, Allison performed so beautifully. She never overshadows her partner and knows how to make her and her partner look VERY good.
Here’s a link to their most famous “Umbrella Dance.”
Actually this was one of the first (successful) slow hip hop numbers created on SYTYCD.
Pretty much all of my picks have been right
I wonder if Nigel has been keeping track on this site
hahaha if nigel had a track on this site, I’m not sure if I should be impressed or mortified of that idea 🙂
LOVE the umbrella dance!
@Margaret: Was that last bit about the umbrella dance for Nigel’s benefit? Lol
hahahaha hadn’t thought about that, mainly responding to christine’s link to the dance. favorite part is…ah i just love the whole thing!
ok so i know im a lil late to the party here but i am soo freaking excited for Allison to be an All-star! she was my season 2 fave!! she was just incredible to watch. her solos were BOMB!
hooray!
Allison is by far my favorite female contestant in SYTYCD history. So so so so so so so excited to see her back! I would have loved to see Ivan back too, and there is still a small chance that he would be in as the hip hop guy as Nigel specifically said Twitch would be doing breaking/krumping – but I wont hold my breath.