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SYTYCD Season 7 News Roundup

Here are some fun items covering SYTYCD Season 7 and the premiere.

I love this one mostly for the picture – everybody’s smiling so big that their eyes are closed (except Nasty Nigel, who IS smiling, but with his eyes wide open). And here’s a fun quote: “…it really is a warm weather series. Mostly because everyone on it is always sweaty and almost naked.”

Cat reveals she watches the show in her pjs, in her interview with Korbi. Best quote ever: “‘You know, Ryan [Seacrest], you’re one of the hardest working men in show business I know. But I do everything that you do, but in a mini skirt and four-inch heels …’ But he did say he has been known before to get in a mini skirt and heels. But only on weekends, apparently.” Here’s another interview with Cat. And another. And a TVGuide.com interview, as well. Annnnd a Reality Rocks interview that includes a cute pic of Cat with Dominic.

Korbi also interviewed Mia, who decided she needed a signature move since she’s replacing the resident “screamer.” Here’s what she came up with: “Maybe I need to do the thing where, [whenever] anything I love [is done], I get to just throw my leg on the table with the shoe… maybe I need to take my shoe and just put it on the table,” she says in the video below. “You know what, I think we’ve just created something that might be legendary, actually.”

And because Korbi rocks, she also interviewed Nigel, who revealed that though both Billy Bell and Alex Wong made it to Vegas Week, only one got a coveted Season 7 Top 10 slot. No offense, Alex Wong, but I hope it’s Billy Bell.

MTV noted the influx of contemporary dancers in New York and Miami (at least shown). Check out this MTV article mostly for the awesome pic of Mia (and her shoulder tattoo!).

SYTYCDism has more photoshoot images up. First, new group shot. Check out Lauren-Mark-Kathryn in the middle. HOT! Then, an image of the judges! Then, headshots and action shots of each of the All-Stars. Yes, they’re all mightily airbrushed. But they are pretty. AND, Neil is sexier than ever before! And that’s saying something!

Entertainment Weekly announced the premiere’s ratings and said that SYTYCD/FOX “won the night,” against the likes of FlashForward‘s series finale. Check out their recap of the premiere here. They’re always entertaining, even when I disagree wildly with them, like I do about Teddy Tedholm – “You remember in Mean Girls when Regina told Gretchen to stop trying to make fetch happen? Well, I wish SYTYCD would stop trying to make 18-year-old Teddy Tedholm happen. Perhaps I’ll eat my words later, but Nigel & Co., Teddy Tedholm is not going to happen. Sorry.”

This item also reports on the premiere’s ratings, but uses a photo of female dancers on a SYTYCD-like stage and I don’t recognize a single dancer. Can anybody name who these dancers are? I’m thinking maybe a former season of Canada since it’s still North America.

Check out tons of pictures from the Fox-hosted premiere viewing party, including a few details of Cat’s ensemble (which makes sense, now that she’s designing her own QVC line). Judges, choreographers and All-Stars are represented, as well as random actresses showing off their legs. Check out these selected (by moi!) images:

Check out these bios of the All-Stars, Mia, Cat and Adam by TVGrapevine. I selected the bio for Courtney for my link, but if you look to the left, they’re all there.

Click on this piece just for the Sonya choreography reel at the bottom.

Here’s an interview with Mia, talking about being back on SYTYCD and the new rules. “I’m all about the art of dance. I’m sitting in a very commercial world, but I come from a different point of view because that’s what really turns me on with dance is the artistry and the commitment and the work ethic and the craft.” Here’s another interview with Mia. And another. And another where she calls herself the “artsy-fartsy” judge.

Check out this hysterical “edit” of the All-Star photo, complete with thought bubbles. Found it here. Read more..

May 28, 2010 I Written By

Returning for Season 7

Louis Van Amstel. He tweeted this yesterday: As far as i know i WILL BE part of SYTYCD this coming season.
Im actually really looking fwd to this season
This is news I like for obvious reason that Louis is an amazing ballroom choreographer. Also it gives me hope that maybe we could see Dmitry, Lacey, or Chelsie. So welcome back Louis can’t wait to see what you will bring to season 7.

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Dance is one of my biggest passions. I grew up dancing at Augusta West Dance Studio (the same studio that Kathryn McCormick). I have a BFA in theatre/dance from Valdosta State University. Tap is my favorite style of dance.

So You Think You Can Dance – Live?

Wow, I just read that SYTYCD Season 7 is going to have not just live results shows, but PERFORMANCE shows will be live as well. Incredible!

Check out the article linked above. It has great mini-interviews with Nigel, Mia, Adam, Cat and Twitch!

What do you think about this new change? Are you excited that there doesn’t seem to be any end to the “newness” of Season 7? Or are you over it? I gotta admit that while I’m a little over the constant trickle of new information, I have loved almost all of the announced changes. I wasn’t loving the “yes/no at the contestants’ home” change, but after reading this article, it’s sounding better and better.

May 12, 2010 I Written By

SYTYCD Season 7 Twist

I just read an article where Nigel reveals yet another twist this season.

Nigel also tweeted another twist on SYTYCD this season. Dancers will not be told if they’ve made the top 10 in the studio but in their homes.

Not sure how I feel about this one. What do you think, y’all?

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SYTYCD Season 7’s Top 24

SYTYCDism posted a list of the Top 24 contestants. They haven’t been narrowed down to the Top 10 who’ll dance with the All-Stars, but they’re a pretty exciting bunch, as is. It’ll be sad to see any of them go.

Girls:

Alexie Agdeppa (I’m SO excited about this one! Hope she’s Top 10)
[With Pauline Mata!]

Ashley Galvan

Bridget Krouse

Cheryl Smith

Christina Santana

Jacelyn Orle

Katie Muth

Lauren Froderman

Lexie Contursi

Melinda Sullivan

Missy Morelli

Ryan Ramirez
[With Mia Michaels!]

Guys:

Adechike Torbert
-No Video Found-

Adrian Lee

Alex Wong (Yay!)

Anthony Burrell

Anthony Kin

Billy Bell (YAY! Seemed like a given, but you just never know…)
[With Jeanine Mason!]

Chris Koehl

DuJuan “DJ” Smart

Jose “Full Deck” Ruiz

Kent Boyd

Robert Roldan
[Psst! Click through to YouTube – looks like Robert’s danced with a lot of the STYYCD alum already!]

Sergey Onik

What do y’all think of our Season 7 Top 24? Which ones would you most like to see in the Top 10?

April 26, 2010 I Written By

So You Think You Can Dance 2010 Las Vegas Week

Earlier Emilie posted about the SYTYCD Season 7 contestants that were seen participating this week in the SYTYCD 2010 Las Vegas Week: Billy Bell, Brandon Dumlao and Alex Wong. The good news is that we have more information about the So You Think You Can Dance 2010 Las Vegas Week.

Motivated by Emilie’s post and a little bit of prodding from Pure SYTYCD’s new blogger, Marianya, I decided to make the trip down to the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas to see if I couldn’t crash the So You Think You Can Dance season 7 auditions. I say crash because we recently reached out to our SYTYCD press contact to get access, but hadn’t heard anything yet. Why we don’t have a direct line to the So You Think You Can Dance PR people, I don’t know. You’d think they’d love SYTYCD bloggers like our site. Not like we’re hard to contact. Just go to our Contact Us page, but I digress.

So, I headed down to the SYTYCD 7 Las Vegas week auditions. Before heading down I realized a few issues. First, I had my 6 year old son with me. Not a huge deal, but I’d have to explain to a 6 year old boy why it’s fun to hang out in front of a theater seeing random people come out. Second, my wife is out of town with my other 2 kids and of course took the camera and video camera with her to record the trip. That left me with our older video camera which turned out to have a dead battery.

I charged about 10 minutes of charge on the video camera and headed down to see what I could see. Luckily, I knew the theater they were using since I’d been there previously for the Miss America pageant and some other event. I was also lucky that the doors to the theater lobby are glass.

When we got there, sure enough there was a big sign saying that they were filming So You Think You Can Dance and some message about you might be caught on camera and shown on broadcast TV. Then, there was a security guy at the door. Inside the lobby I could see some producers sitting at a table and then a girl came running out the lobby door. So, I pulled out my camera and started shooting the sign and inside the lobby.

Remember I only had 10 minutes of battery so I had to save the battery as much as possible. After my first shot, I saw a girl run out of the lobby door and seemed to be heading to her room. I was mad the camera was off and missed her. So, I somehow convinced my son to hang around with me, hoping I could catch her as she came back. Of course, she came running back even faster and I missed her again. Dang.

Well, long story short, I did a number of circles around the place with my son with him likely not having any idea what I was really doing. Although, it was funny when I got him on camera and the sign for “Peep Show.” Uh, no. I did catch 2-3 girls on camera as they were exiting or inside getting interviewed. Didn’t recognize any of them, but one of them came out and was with her parents and some luggage. So, I’m assuming she must have been sent home?

However, the most exciting find was when I saw Teddy Tedholm. You remember Teddy? The guy with the bow tie and the crazy golf pants his mom bought him? I actually got quite a bit of video of Teddy. Even saw him being filmed leaving and then I filmed him leaving completely. It was kind of funny. He did look kind of disappointed, but maybe I was just reading into things. (Update: SYTYCDism has Teddy listed as cut in the hip hop round (which was today), so I must have seen him just after he was cut.)

Of course, you could be the judge for yourself, but unfortunately I have some issues with getting the video off the camera. Since it’s my old camera I have to reinstall a special card to export it to my computer…Ugh! So, hopefully tomorrow I’ll get around to doing that and I’ll upload a few videos for you all to enjoy. Plus, then you can tell me if you recognize any of the dancers in the videos. One of them was with Teddy and she was really excited when Teddy wasn’t so happy. So, I’m assuming she made it through.

It was pretty fun going and kind of being paparazzi like. I might have to try this again tomorrow and/or Saturday. Anyone know how long the Vegas Auditions go? Videos from the experience tomorrow.

April 15, 2010 I Written By

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

Fifth SYTYCD Season 7 All-Star Selected

I was stalking Nigel’s Twitter account and *just* got the message:

dizzyfeet

Today’s #SYTYCD All-Star is the extremely strong @ADEEVERYDAY. Ade from Season 5 will be an excellent partner in contemporary and classical. 1 minute ago via Echofon

YAY!! Oh my goodness, is Nigel right that Ade’s an excellent partner and extremely strong. I’m so excited! I suspect y’all will be, too…

April 7, 2010 I Written By

Third SYTYCD Season 7 All-Star Selected

Sorry this is so late today! I wasn’t sure if there’d be an announcement today since it’s April Fool’s Day. You probably already know that Nigel Tweeted a few hours ago:

dizzyfeet

From Season 3 representing Standard and Latin Ballroom PASHA Happy Easter Tweets everybody. I’ll Give you another All-Star Tweet on Tuesday. about 4 hours ago via Echofon

While Pasha wasn’t one of my 10 All-Stars, I’m super excited to have him on the show! I’ve always loved him.

April 1, 2010 I Written By

Second SYTYCD Season 7 All-Star Selected

From Nigel, just now:

dizzyfeet

Covering the genres of Jazz, Contemporary, Broadway and Cultural, I am delighted to say that we have, from Season 6, …….KATHRYN. 1 minutes ago via web

Yay, two for two, so far for my personal selection of All-Stars. And just plain excited to have Kathryn back. What do you think, Amanda? All of our readers?

March 31, 2010 I Written By