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Stacey Tookey’s “Gasoline Rainbows” Routine SYTYCD Canada Top 14 Joey & Geisha (VIDEO)

This was a really awesomepiece by Stacey Tookey. I really like the concept and the song “Gasoline Rainbows” Gasoline Rainbows - Gasoline Rainbows by Amy Kuney.

August 13, 2011 I Written By

I am a blogger and reality tv lover. I blog here for SYTYCD but mostly the Canada version, since I live in Vancouver BC. I also blog about other reality tv shows on my own blog www.mandysmind.com

SYTYCD (CA) Top 20 Performance Music

Thanks, once again, to Malicious Mandy for the music from the Top 20 Performance episode.

Dancers: Bree & Edgar
Style: Dancehall
Choreographer: Jaeblaze
Song: Vybz Kartel ft Popcaan and Gaza Slim’s “Clarks” – Clarks

Dancers: Amanda & Denys
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Sabrina Matthews
Song: Hedley’s “Perfect” – Perfect

Dancers: Kirsten & Jera
Style: Paso Doble
Choreographers: Francis LeFreniere & Natalli Reznik
Song: Position Music’s “Iron Might/Mind Control”

Dancers: Nathalie & Mackenzie
Style: Hip Hop
Choreographers: Sho-Tyme
Song: DJ Khaled ft T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross “All I Do Is Win” – All

Dancers: Claudia & Yonni
Style: Foxtrot
Choreographer: Danny Quillman
Song: Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce’s “Telephone” – Telephone

Dancers: Charlene & Jeff
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Stacey Tookey
Song: Alisa Turner’s “Breathing” – Breathing

Dancers: Julia & Jesse
Style: Samba
Choreographers: Tony Meredith & Melanie LaPatin
Song: “Cuban Pete” – Cuban from the iSweat Music album

Dancers: Danielle & Sebastian
Style: Theatre
Choreographer: Sean Cheesman
Song: Idina Menzel’s “No Good Deed” – No from the Wicked Soundtrack

Dancers: Janick & Shavar
Style: Krump
Choreographer: Lil C
Song: Buckmouth’s “Whatever” –

Dancers: Kloe & Jonathan
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Blake McGrath
Song: Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg’s “California Gurls” – California

August 31, 2010 I Written By

SYTYCD (CA) Montreal Auditions Music

I know this is a bit late (this was Episode 4, fyi), but I thought better late than never.

Montreal Auditions:
Opening: Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dancefloor” – Evacuate
Montage: Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce’s “Telephone” – Telephone
Explanation of the process: unidentified techno
Claudia Primeau’s audition (with Francis): David Guetta ft. Akon’s “Sexy Bitch” – Sexy
Intro to Jean-Philippe Dube: The Stereos’ “Turn It Up,” which isn’t on iTunes, so try their “Summer Girl” – Summer
Jean-Philippe Dube’s audition: Basement Jaxx’s “Right Here’s the Spot” – Right
Jessie Mineau and Phil Szopko’s audition: Ursula 1000’s “Kinda Kinky” – Kinda'
Philippe “Phairy” Laurin’s audition: – Basement Jaxx’s “Romeo” – Romeo
As Phairy reveals his horoscope is real: Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” – Dance
Marie-Josee Benoit and Stephan Larose audition: Madcon’s “Beggin'” – Beggin'
Ariela Levi’s audition: Alicia Keys’s “Fallin'” – Fallin'
Randi Liberman’s audition: Amerie’s “1 Thing” – 1
Yonni Fournier’s audition: something Cuban?
Montreal breakers montage: Manafest’s “Bounce” – Bounce
Montreal breakers audition: Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock’s “It Takes Two” – It
Denys Drozdyuk’s audition: very familiar song, used for other paso dobles before
Aditi Dixit’s audition: “Ishq Samundar” from KaanteIshq Wish I could claim all the credit, but a Bengali friend of mine helped me out.
Julie Dombrowski’s audition: Tortured Soul’s “Fall in Love” – Fall
Sebastian Mersch’s audition: Jay Brannan’s “Beautifully” – Beautifully LOVE THIS SONG!
Nadia Carpini’s audition: Kevin Rudolf’s “Welcome to the World” – Welcome
Chantal Watt audition: no lyrics, really boring actually
Amelia Levesque Demero audition: belly dance/Middle Eastern music, couldn’t identify
Laura Brunelle audition: Cœur de Pirate’s “Comme des Enfants” – Comme GREAT SONG! I can’t believe I found it – all my French classes paid off at last.
Mike Keane audition: Irish dancing to an Irish song
Montreal is flexible montage: The American Breed “Bend Me, Shake Me” – Bend
Sam Frey audition: Adele’s “Hometown Glory” – Hometown
Simon Xavier audition: couldn’t identify the song
Olga Churkina audition: Middle Eastern gypsy song – not sure
Olga Zadvornova audition: no lyrics, some violins
Justine Rainville and Dan St-Cyr audition: The Pussycat Dolls’s “When I Grow Up” – When
Justin Jackson (tapper) audition: Aretha Franklin’s “Since You’ve Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)” – Since
Whitney Single audition: pretty famous Latin song, but I can’t remember what it is
Jason Noel audition: Hedley “Amazing” – Amazing Wow, I love this!
Josue Exposito audition: T.I. ft. Justin Timberlake’s “Dead & Gone” – Dead
Sarah Steben interview: Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” – This
Sarah Steben audition: New Boyz’s “So Dope” – So
Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli audition: James Brown “Call Me (Super Bad)” – Call
Blake’s choreography round, aka boot camp: Black Eyed Peas’s “Meet Me Halfway” – Meet
Yes montage: OneRepublic’s “Marchin’ On” – Marchin
Going on to finals montage: Amanda Blank’s “Make It Take It” – Make

August 29, 2010 I Written By

Awesome SYTYCD Canada Promo with Nico and Tara-Jean

This is amazing… I saw it on tonight’s SYTYCD commercial break and had to record it to share with everyone… I LOVE NICO!!!

So You Think You Can Dance Canada Season 3 Promo with Nico and Tara-Jean.

August 15 SYTYCD Canada starts, and I will be posting regularily here for those of you unable to watch via Much Music or CTV. (Don’t worry I fast forward through Jean-Marc too… and sometimes Leah Miller, though she is fun to make fun of…)

July 29, 2010 I Written By

I am a blogger and reality tv lover. I blog here for SYTYCD but mostly the Canada version, since I live in Vancouver BC. I also blog about other reality tv shows on my own blog www.mandysmind.com

SYTYCD Canada Returns August 15

Reality television junkies, such as myself, are enjoying a summer of SYTYCD, Big Brother, Bachelorette, True Beauty and Hell’s Kitchen. But that is just the start…..

So You Think You Can Dance kicks off it’s 3rd season August 15 with auditions from across Canada before moving into the Top 20 and weekly eliminations.

CTV Reports:

Season 3 will begin on August 15 and after the audition episodes, performance shows will air on Wednesdays at 8pm with the half hour result shows on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.

The Season 3 audition tour travelled to five cities across the country – Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. SYTYCDC showcases dancers from across the country as they compete to impress an expert panel of judges.

Following each audition city, select competitors were invited to “Finals Week” in Toronto where they worked with some of Canada’s top choreographers. After a gruelling and challenging week mastering various genres of dance, 20 dancers earned a coveted spot in the SYTYCDC Top 20.

Chosen by the judging panel, this select group of dancers will perform in front of the nation. The public votes for their favourites following weekly performance episodes in which competitors are assigned partners and dance styles to perform, from hip-hop and krump to salsa, quickstep, contemporary and jive.

In the end, only one dancer goes home with the title of Canada’s Favourite Dancer and a $100,000 grand prize.

I don’t know about all of you but I am so excited. Something about BEING Canadian makes me just love seeing my “people” dance. Of course, I love SYTYCD USA and if I could watch international SYTYCD shows I am sure I would love them too, dance in general is so amazing – but, the hometown dancers I just connect with and become so attached to.

Set your PVRs, DVRs, TiVos and (dare I say it?) VCRs?!?! 🙂

Don’t miss SYTYCD Canada’s 3rd season startin next month!!!

Which choreographers, guest judges and past contestents would you MOST like to see in season 3?

Comment Below.

July 16, 2010 I Written By

I am a blogger and reality tv lover. I blog here for SYTYCD but mostly the Canada version, since I live in Vancouver BC. I also blog about other reality tv shows on my own blog www.mandysmind.com

So You Think You Can Dance Canada's host Leah Miller wins Gemini Award

CTV REPORTS:


The 24th Annual Gemini Awards were presented in a glitzy event held in Calgary [ November 16th ]weekend and Leah Miller, host of So You Think You Can Dance Canada, beat out Canadian Idol’s Season 6 winner Theo Tams and 2009 Juno Award host comedian Russell Peters to receive the Gemini Award for best performance or host in a variety program.

The Gemini Awards honour the best in Canadian television as determined by members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and other industry professionals.

Earlier in October, So You Think You Can Dance Canada Season 1 won a Gemini for Best Music, Variety Program or Series. In 2008, Miller received the Viewers’ Choice Gemini Award for Hottest Canadian Female.

What?

Well, this was shocking news. I am not a fan of Leah Miller and I am quite surprised she beat out Russell Peters who is hilarious and even Theo Tams, who is adorably charming.

I find Leah to be so condescending. SYTYCD Canada as a whole is a super show so in that sense it doesn’t surprise me that it’s host would win, but I can’t help but think it is more the success of the show overall than anything particular about Leah Miller.

That’s just my opinion, what do you think?

November 22, 2009 I Written By

I am a blogger and reality tv lover. I blog here for SYTYCD but mostly the Canada version, since I live in Vancouver BC. I also blog about other reality tv shows on my own blog www.mandysmind.com

Season 2 Winner of So You Think You Can Dance Canada – Tara-Jean

End of October was a busy time and I can’t believe I didn’t post this…. then I was very ill for the start of November, so here we go, better late than never…

From Four there was one….

Tara-Jean Won Season 2 of So You Think You Can Dance Canada.

I was pretty shocked because she didn’t ever really stand out to me, I even predicted she’d go home a few times… that being said, she is so sweet and talented, I am quite thrilled she did win.

Of course we know from previous seasons of SYTYCD Canada and USA that many of the dancers Top 10 and otherwise go on to great things…. I wish Tara-Jean the best of luck.

November 15, 2009 I Written By

I am a blogger and reality tv lover. I blog here for SYTYCD but mostly the Canada version, since I live in Vancouver BC. I also blog about other reality tv shows on my own blog www.mandysmind.com

So You Think You Can Dance Canada Top 4 Music

I apologize that I’m a little late in posting this, but better late than never I guess.

Jayme Rae Dailey, Vincent Desjardins, Tara-Jean Popowich and Everett Smith danced a Cabaret to the song “Theme for Gypsy (Shivas Regal)” Sonny Lester Orchestra - How to Strip - Shivas Regal—Sonny Lester & His Orchestra choreographed by Tony Meredith and Melanie LaPatin
Vincent Desjardins and Everett Smith danced a Hip-hop to the song “B.O.B.” OutKast - Stankonia - B.O.B.—Outkast choreographed by Sho-Tyme
Tara-Jean Popowich and Everett Smith danced a Jazz to the song “Say (All I Need)” OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud - Say (All I Need)—OneRepublic choreographed by Sean Cheesman
Jayme Rae Dailey and Tara-Jean Popowich danced a Mambo to the song “Ran Kan Kan” Tito Puente - Exitos Eternos - Ran Kan Kan—Tito Puente choreographed by Tony Meredith and Melanie LaPatin
Jayme Rae Dailey and Vincent Desjardins danced a Contemporary to the song “Can’t Stop Thinking About You” Martin Sexton - Live At the Iron Horse Vol. 1 - Can't Stop Thinking About You—Martin Sexton choreographed by Stacey Tookey
Tara-Jean Popowich and Vincent Desjardins danced a Hustle to the song “Last Dance” Donna Summer - Greatest Hits - Last Dance—Donna Summer choreographed by Maria Torres
Jayme Rae Dailey and Everett Smith danced a Samba to the song “Run the Show” Kat DeLuna - Run the Show - EP - Run the Show—Kat DeLuna choreographed by Eric Caty and Kelly Lannan

Solos:
Everett Smith: “Style” Cameo - Cameo: Anthology - Style—Cameo
Jayme Rae Dailey: “Radiaciones Arrabaleras” Bailongo! - Nuevos Aires: Tango Y Milonga Para Bailarines - Radiaciones Arrabaleras—Bailongo!
Vincent Desjardins: “Land of 1000 Dances” Wilson Pickett - Black Magic (Soundtrack) [Remastered] - Land of 1000 Dances—Wilson Pickett
Tara-Jean Popowich: “Bleeding Love” Boyce Avenue - Acoustic Sessions, Vol. 2 - Bleeding Love—Boyce Avenue

October 25, 2009 I Written By

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

Music from So You Think You Can Dance Canada Results Show

Time again for the SYTYCD Canada music list. This time from the SYTYCD Canada Top 6 Results show.

Group dance: “Turn the Beat Around” Gerald Jackson & Vicki Sue Robinson - Radio Hits of the '70s - Turn the Beat Around—Vicki Sue Robinson (Disco; Choreographer: Tre Armstrong)

SYTYCD Canada Solos:
Jayme Rae Dailey: “I’m Not Afraid” Jill Scott - Beautifully Human - Words and Sounds, Vol. 2 - I'm Not Afraid—Jill Scott
Melanie Mah: “On Your Porch” The Format - Interventions and Lullabies - On Your Porch—The Format
Tara-Jean Popowich: “The Waves” Elisa - Dancing - The Waves—Elisa
Vincent Desjardins:
Everett Smith: “Oh…Canada”—Classified
Emanuel Sandhu: “Let’s Dance” David Bowie - Best of Bowie - Let's Dance—David Bowie

October 17, 2009 I Written By

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

So You Think You Can Dance Canada Top 6 Music

Time to list the music from the So You Think You Can Dance Canada top 6 performances.

Top 3 girls: “Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, BWV 1043: II, Largo ma non tanto” Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Henryk Szeryng, Maurice Hasson & Sir Neville Marriner - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Orchestral Suites - Violin Concertos - Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings, and Continuo in D Minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo Ma Non Tanto—The Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Rees (Contemporary, Choreographer: Mia Michaels)
Top 3 boys: “Get Up Offa That Thing” James Brown - 20 All Time Greatest Hits! - Get up Offa That Thing—James Brown (Suave-Funk; Choreographer: Gustavo Vargas)

SYTYCD Canada Couples Music
Tara-Jean Popowich and Vincent Desjardins danced a Salsa to the song “Vengo Caliente” Sonora Carruseles - La Salsa la Traigo Yo! - Vengo Caliente–Sonora Carruseles choreographed by Gustavo Vargas
Tara-Jean Popowich and Vincent Desjardins danced a Contemporary to the song “It Doesn’t Hurt” (Studio Version) Katie Thompson - KT LIVE - It Doesn't Hurt (studio Version)—Katie Thompson choreographed by Stacey Tookey
Melanie Mah and Everett Smith danced a Jazz-Rock to the song “Burn It to the Ground” Nickelback - Dark Horse - Burn It to the Ground—Nickelback choreographed by Melissa Williams
Melanie Mah and Everett Smith danced a Hip-hop to the song “That’s Right” Ciara - The Evolution - That's Right—Ciara choreographed by Luther Brown
Jayme Rae Dailey and Emanuel Sandhu danced a Quickstep to the song “Let’s Go”—Hipjoint feat. Sherry St. Germain choreographed by Pierre Allaire
Jayme Rae Dailey and Emanuel Sandhu danced a Jazz-Funk to the song “I Gotta Feeling” Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) - I Gotta Feeling-Black Eyed Peas choreographed by Blake McGrath

SYTYCD Canada Solo Music
Jayme Rae Dailey: “As Much As I Ever Could” City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love - As Much As I Ever Could—City and Colour
Tara-Jean Popowich: “Fever” Michael Bublé - Michael Bublé - Fever—Michael Bublé
Melanie Mah: “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - EP - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight—The Postal Service
Everett Smith: “Shake Your Pants” Cameo - Cameo: Anthology - Shake Your Pants—Cameo
Vincent Desjardins: “Ai Mi Morena” (Chocolate Restyle) Mo' Horizons - Some More Horizons - Ai Mi Morena (Chocolate Restyle)—Mo’ Horizons

October 14, 2009 I Written By

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