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SYTYCD rumblings

What a great show last night!! I sprinkled my thoughts here and there on other posts but overall I was really impressed. I thought I’d bring you all a smattering of SYTYCD news that I’ve seen over the past couple of weeks. Much of it comes from our friends at Entertainment Weekly

*added 6/24
I haven’t had the chance to read some of your comments about the results last night, but Kate Ward, a writer at EW.com has written an article aptly titled, “SYTYCD results make fans angry. you won’t like them when they’re angry”

I have to admit, I was pretty annoyed to see them keep Ryan after her abysmal “dance for your life”. I was watching the live feed online and it shorted out so I missed Missy’s and Iveta’s but from what I’ve heard Iveta’s was better. I saw all the guys and I thought Ricky really made his case to stay, his solo was great. Frankly, it’s not his fault Ryan seems to rather look at the camera and mug than connect with him. One of the posters recommended that they should have let all three girls and one of the boys go and kept Nick and Ricky or Nick and Wadi. I agree that Nick had a great personality and I would have loved to have seen him do contemporary with his long limbs to really see what he can do.

thoughts on this? I think it’s pretty interesting…

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They’ve recently released their list of the 25 greatest SYTYCD performances of the past 7 seasons.

25. Kathryn and Ryan’s cha-cha (Season 6)
24. Pasha and Sara’s “Rockafella Skank” (Season 3)
23. Lauren and Twitch’s “My Chick Bad” (Season 7)
22. Lacey and Kameron Week 1 (Season 3)
21. Jakob and Ashleigh’s “Hit Me With a Hot Note” (Season 6)
20. Tranji’s “Gyrate” (Season 2)
19. Melody and Nick’s “All That Jazz”
18. Ellenore and Jakob’s “Tore My Heart”
17. Jeanine and Jason “If It Kills Me”
16. Brandon and Jeanette’s Disco
15. Katee and Joshua’s Bollywood
14. Jaimie and Hok’s “Hummingbird and the Flower”
13. Robert and Allison’s “Fix You”
12. Brandon and Jeanette’s “Ruby Blue”
11. Chelsie and Mark’s “Bleeding Love”
10. Ade and Billy’s “Mad World”
9. Danny and Lacey’s “Hip Hip Chin Chin”
8. Allison and Ivan’s “Why”
7. Kayla and Kupono’s “Addiction (Gravity)”
6. Heidi and Benji’s “Black Mambo”
5. Allison and Alex’s “Hallelujah”
4. Neil and Sabra’s “80’s Power Lunch (the table dance)”
3. Travis and Heidi’s “The Bench”
2. Katee and Joshua’s “No Air”
1. Alex and Twitch’s “Outta Your Mind”

This is a pretty stellar list, I must say, but there are a few glaring omissions. Where is Will and Katee’s spectacular pas de deux from season 4? Or Kayla and Max’s incredible WEEK 1 samba from season 5? I know this doesn’t include solos, but I don’t think anyone has topped Blake’s amazing solo from top 6 week in season 1, I’ve rewound it 100 times at least and still can’t figure out how he switches directions in his back handspring!

any other routines that didn’t make the cut?
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Top 20 (Part 2) Results Thoughts and Discussion

I’m dreading tonight as much as I can dread SYTYCD. Which is to say that I’m looking forward to seeing the dancing, but sad about losing 4 of the dancers. I think the dancers themselves got it right in DanceOn’s video interviews when they said that getting to know them another week almost makes it worse to lose them now.

That being said, it’s kinda cool to see a third Top 20 group routine and Dave Scott’s was really good. I love Nina Simone and I thought there was a really retro-futuristic The Adjustment Bureau feel to it.

I’m excited to see Crew dancing later.

And for the rest of my live thoughts, a spoiler space…

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Top 20 (Part 2) Results Music

Dave Scott Top 20 group routine: Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” – Sinnerman - The Essential Nina Simone

Rage Crew’s 3rd appearance on SYTYCD: Colton B’s “Party Like This” – not on iTunes, try “Famous” – Famous - Famous - Single in the meantime

And a spoiler space for the solos:

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So You Think You Can Dance – Week 2, Season 8

Week 2 Interviews with the Top 20 of So You Think You Can Dance Season 8.

Episode Recap:
1. Caitlynn and Mitchell — Contemporary (Stacy Tookey)
“Turning Tables”, Adele

2. Sasha and Alexander — Hip-Hop (Tabitha and Napoleon)
“Coming Home”, Diddy Dirty Money and Skylar Grey

3. Clarice and Jess — Contemporary (Stacey Tookey)
“Cathedrals”, Jump Little Children

4. Jordan and Tadd — Viennese Waltz (Jean-Marc Genereux)
“Fade Into Me”, David Cook

5. Melanie and Marko — Jazz (Mandy Moore)
“Sing With A Swing (Rat Marchesini Radio Edit)”, DKS

6. Miranda and Robert — Hip-Hop (Tabitha and Napoleon)
“Breck Ya Neck”, Busta Rhymes

7. Ashley and Chris –Broadway (Spencer Liff)
“Please, Mr. Jailer”, Racherl Sweet

8. Iveta and Nick — Bollywood (Nakul Dev Mahajan)
“Luck By Chance”, Baawre

9. Ryan and Ricky — Jazz (Mandy Moore)
“Addicted To Love”, Robert Palmer

10. Missy and Wadi — Ballroom (Jean-Marc Genereux)
“Cannibal”, Ke$ha

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