SYTYCD Cross Country Dance Comparison
Many thanks to Margaret for this tidbit, I figured that I would bring it out for you guys to see…
The first song in this post is Don’t Touch Me by Busta Rhymes danced as hip-hop.
From SYTYCD US Season 4 Week 3: Kherington Payne and Stephen “Twitch” Boss. Choreography by Tabitha and Napoleon D’umo (aka NappyTabs).
From SYTYCD Canada Season 1 Week 4: Nico Archambault and Arassay Reyes choreographed by Luther Brown
So who do you think danced it better? The Canadians or the Americans? ๐
Better yet, how about this dance comparison:
Using the song Sweet Dreams are Made of These by Eurythmics. Both dances are choreographed by Mandy Moore in the Jazz style…
From SYTYCD US Season 3 Week 8: Sabra Johnson and Neil Haskell
From SYTYCD UK Season 1 Week 6: Lizzie Gough and Tommy Franzรฉn (Lizzie’s from London and Tommy’s from Sweden)
So who danced what better? ๐
Disclaimer: The UK Version was brought to my attention a long time ago, I do not claim knowledge of it’s existence prior to it being introduced to me. ๐
I love the super pairing of Nico & Arassay every dance they danced together was the best. I love this couple. so the Canadians for the Hip-Hop round. For the Jazz the pair of Neil and Sabra was the better of the two.
Nico & Arassay’s choreo was different, but better. I think Kherington & Twitch’s was more playful, but still good. I like the interpretation of Nico & Arassay’s better.
Neil & Sabra all the way. It was more powerful. And Neil’s acrobatic skills definitely helped. I did see Lizzy & Tommy’s version when it was on in the UK, but even back then I thought it wasn’t as good.
When I had the flu over the summer I ended up watching the entire 1st season SYTYCD Canada, and Nico and Arassay were my favorite couple by far. Theirs focuses more on the steps rather than the comedy (not that I don’t love Twitch and Kherington, they’re one of my favorite SYTYCD pairs of all time). The impressive thing about Nico and Arassay is that neither of them are hip hop dancers, Nico is contemporary and Arassay is salsa. You would expect Twitch’s performance out of him simply b/c it’s what he does, but Nico and Arassay’s took everyone by surprise (in a good way).
Actually I thought Nico was hiphop and contemporary like how Lauren Gottlieb was both. It’s just the contemporary side was stressed more.
ahh I didn’t know that, I didn’t remember him doing hip hop during his audition, that’s awesome to know. Nico was so great during his season. He choreographed a piece on SYTYCD Canada season 2 and it was pretty sick. Here’s a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MVGxvmefP8
the guy in the video, everett, he reminds me a little bit of Pasha. He doesn’t have a personality like Pasha’s (Everett is actually a tapper) but he kinda came out of nowhere like Pasha did and was able to do a bunch of styles.