Crouching Geisha, Infuriating Elimination.
If this week’s So You Think You Can Dance had to be summed up by a twist on an Oscar-winning movie title — and let’s be honest, what major life scenario couldn’t/shouldn’t fall under those terms? — then what better way to express the joy of Gaby’s Japanese-inspired hip-hop number and Edson’s blow-to-the-gut exit at the exact moment he broke on through to the future all-star side?
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If this week’s So You Think You Can Dance had to be summed up by a twist on an Oscar-winning movie title — and let’s be honest, what major life scenario couldn’t/shouldn’t fall under those terms? — then what better way to express the joy of Gaby’s Japanese-inspired hip-hop number and Edson’s blow-to-the-gut exit at the exact moment he broke on through to the future all-star side?
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- 8/18/2015
- TVLine.com
A beautiful and completely unexpected thing happened on the first So You Think You Can Dance results show of Season 12.
No, Travis Wall didn’t renounce his usual mangling of the word “choreography,” nor did executive producer Nigel Lythgoe stop his nasty habit of trying to sway audience opinions via pre-performance packages.
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The good news, though, is that thanks to a new Twitter-save twist (borrowed from those social-media savvy cats at The Voice), we the people (obsessed with reality-competition series) were granted the ability to remove the most egregious at-risk dancers from the ever-capricious whims of Tweedle Weeee,...
No, Travis Wall didn’t renounce his usual mangling of the word “choreography,” nor did executive producer Nigel Lythgoe stop his nasty habit of trying to sway audience opinions via pre-performance packages.
RelatedMiley Cyrus to Host 2015 MTV VMAs
The good news, though, is that thanks to a new Twitter-save twist (borrowed from those social-media savvy cats at The Voice), we the people (obsessed with reality-competition series) were granted the ability to remove the most egregious at-risk dancers from the ever-capricious whims of Tweedle Weeee,...
- 7/21/2015
- TVLine.com
It’s important to get all the front-page news in the headline! Spoiler ahead. Two more dancers have left the competition after the Tuesday, Aug. 27 performance show, which featured Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson (living proof that there should be an Emmy for Outstanding Reality TV Guest Judge) and the Top 6 dahn-sahs paired up with So You Think You Can Dance All-Stars and then each other.
I’ll post my full recap of tonight’s performances later on; in the meantime, discuss! The two going home are….
Hayley Erbert and Paul Karmiryan have been eliminated.
Your season 10 final four: Aaron Turner,...
I’ll post my full recap of tonight’s performances later on; in the meantime, discuss! The two going home are….
Hayley Erbert and Paul Karmiryan have been eliminated.
Your season 10 final four: Aaron Turner,...
- 8/28/2013
- by Annie Barrett
- EW.com - PopWatch
Spoilers ahead. Two more dancers have left the competition after tonight’s performance show, which was guest-judged by renowned dance expert Carly Rae Jepsen. She specializes in the esteemed genre “Pop Carwash.”
I’ll post my full recap of tonight’s performances later on; in the meantime, discuss!
Mariah Spears and Dorian “BluPrint” Hector have been eliminated.
Mackenzie, Jenna, Alan, and Curtis also landed in the bottom six.
The judges asked all but Jenna to dance for their lives.
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‘Sytycd’ Set List For July 23, 2013 — Full Recap Here
Opening number choreographed by Stacey Tookey and Peter Chu
Music: “New World” by...
I’ll post my full recap of tonight’s performances later on; in the meantime, discuss!
Mariah Spears and Dorian “BluPrint” Hector have been eliminated.
Mackenzie, Jenna, Alan, and Curtis also landed in the bottom six.
The judges asked all but Jenna to dance for their lives.
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‘Sytycd’ Set List For July 23, 2013 — Full Recap Here
Opening number choreographed by Stacey Tookey and Peter Chu
Music: “New World” by...
- 7/24/2013
- by Annie Barrett
- EW.com - PopWatch
Nobody said it would be easy mashing up So You Think You Can Dance‘s weekly performances and results into a single, 120-minute telecast. But just as an old Cat can learn new dance steps — our hostess really did boogie as she made her entrance in a sultry red dress! — so too did Sytycd manage to pack in a group number, a special guest performance (from the cast of Step Up Revolution), 10 competitive routines, and a brutal set of results that lopped off a fifth of the Season 9 crop.
And just like Eliana doing overtime in her Jive with Cyrus,...
And just like Eliana doing overtime in her Jive with Cyrus,...
- 7/19/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
After a really thrilling opener set to Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" (choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon?! What?!), we get to finding out which ill-fated foursome will be packing their bags on So You Think You Can Dance. But in a strange turn of events, every couple will perform before the elimination is announced, which means that whichever unlucky couples ship out will have hit the stage for nothing. This week's rankings:
1) Janaya & Brandon (last week: 4) have to get hip to Shawn Cheesman's Broadway to Linda Eder's "Bring On The Men", and I am obsessed with this number. Janaya could have used slightly more grit, but this is the first number of the entire season that I needed to watch again. Brandon did a fine job here, but with the music and the choreography, this really was his partner's piece to dominate, and she had to be all...
1) Janaya & Brandon (last week: 4) have to get hip to Shawn Cheesman's Broadway to Linda Eder's "Bring On The Men", and I am obsessed with this number. Janaya could have used slightly more grit, but this is the first number of the entire season that I needed to watch again. Brandon did a fine job here, but with the music and the choreography, this really was his partner's piece to dominate, and she had to be all...
- 7/19/2012
- by Terron R. Moore
- TVology
With the confetti settled on Melanie Moore's "So You Think You Can Dance" victory, we now look ahead to those dark nine months of every year where we don't get to watch one of our favorite shows.
In the interest of letting it linger just a little bit longer, we've come up with our favorite five dances from the 19-year-old Season 8 champ's time on the show. There are few showcased during last night's finale and a few that didn't seem to warrant an encore, but we love them all equally.
So here they are in no particular order...
Melanie and Marko, "Light Bulb"
Obviously the finale can't dwell entirely on the top 4, but we were surprised not to see Dee Caspary's contemporary get any love from the judges. It was one of the strongest collaborations between Melanie and Marko and one of our favorites from the entire season:
Melanie and Sasha,...
In the interest of letting it linger just a little bit longer, we've come up with our favorite five dances from the 19-year-old Season 8 champ's time on the show. There are few showcased during last night's finale and a few that didn't seem to warrant an encore, but we love them all equally.
So here they are in no particular order...
Melanie and Marko, "Light Bulb"
Obviously the finale can't dwell entirely on the top 4, but we were surprised not to see Dee Caspary's contemporary get any love from the judges. It was one of the strongest collaborations between Melanie and Marko and one of our favorites from the entire season:
Melanie and Sasha,...
- 8/12/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Christina Applegate of Kelly Bundy and Samantha Who fame joined the judging panel last night, and she actually had a bit more dance cred than most guest judges this season, having been nominated for a Tony for the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity. She wound up being a pretty competent judge, although at this point, with only six great dancers left, there's not a lot to actually criticize.
But me, I'm sure I can find something!
Like maybe Lil' C. Oh Lil' C. Can you just not talk and just sit there and be pretty?. Because you sure are pretty. (Or "buck" as you would say). But those inane extended rhymes you do with the highfalutin' adjectives make me want to tear my hair (and your cornrows) out. How I wonder do you keep getting invited back to the judging panel?
Another thing worth complaining about: choreographers that use a lot of gimmicky props.
But me, I'm sure I can find something!
Like maybe Lil' C. Oh Lil' C. Can you just not talk and just sit there and be pretty?. Because you sure are pretty. (Or "buck" as you would say). But those inane extended rhymes you do with the highfalutin' adjectives make me want to tear my hair (and your cornrows) out. How I wonder do you keep getting invited back to the judging panel?
Another thing worth complaining about: choreographers that use a lot of gimmicky props.
- 8/4/2011
- by Dennis Ayers
- The Backlot
Melanie, Sasha, Marko, and Tadd. We’ve all pretty much known for the last several weeks that they’d be the final four dancers standing at the end of So You Think You Can Dance‘s eighth season, and Wednesday night’s Top 6 performance show most likely sealed the deal.
But that doesn’t mean the evening was void of the unpredictable or the unexpected. Melanie finally stared down a hard-hitting hip-hop routine, and looked completely comfortable doing it (no matter what Lil C had to say about it). Tadd showed his dirty side (mmm hmm) while hanging from a chandelier.
But that doesn’t mean the evening was void of the unpredictable or the unexpected. Melanie finally stared down a hard-hitting hip-hop routine, and looked completely comfortable doing it (no matter what Lil C had to say about it). Tadd showed his dirty side (mmm hmm) while hanging from a chandelier.
- 8/4/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Earlier today, I teased my exclusive first-hand look at the early morning rehearsals for tonight’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance with some ridiculously cryptic clues. I’d promised not to spill any big details until after the show had aired on the west coast — who am I to stand in the way of the “fairness” of reality TV call-in competitions — so instead, I had to get all ambiguous.
Not anymore! I have to say, as savvy as I’d like to think I am to the ways of reality television production lo these many years of covering Sytycd and American Idol,...
Not anymore! I have to say, as savvy as I’d like to think I am to the ways of reality television production lo these many years of covering Sytycd and American Idol,...
- 8/4/2011
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW.com - PopWatch
We’re only a week away from the finale, Cat tells us, très elegante in a beige-gold kind of sheer sort of filigree dress with sleeves that bell at the cuffs (it’s beautiful and I want it and will be checking Cat’s twitter for where to get it. Last week’s apparently came from The Top Shop, which I can actually afford). The top 6 are competing for the right to be in it.
They keep saying “it’s...
They keep saying “it’s...
- 8/4/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
This is it. It’s down to the wire. Six enter the Sytycd glitter dome tonight, and four will exit for the finale next week. Who. Will. It. Be?
It. Will. Be. Melanie. Marko. Sasha. And Tadd! Right? Of course it will be. Ricky and Caitlynn, adorable and talented they may be, are battling against their own woeful lack of momentum — but maybe they can finally rev things up with their performances tonight? Perhaps?
Here’s what I can tell you: The choreographers tonight will be, in no particular order, Dee Caspary, Sonya Tayeh, Tabitha and Napoleon, Dmitry Chaplin, Tyce Diorio,...
It. Will. Be. Melanie. Marko. Sasha. And Tadd! Right? Of course it will be. Ricky and Caitlynn, adorable and talented they may be, are battling against their own woeful lack of momentum — but maybe they can finally rev things up with their performances tonight? Perhaps?
Here’s what I can tell you: The choreographers tonight will be, in no particular order, Dee Caspary, Sonya Tayeh, Tabitha and Napoleon, Dmitry Chaplin, Tyce Diorio,...
- 8/3/2011
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW.com - PopWatch
Fans up in arms on couples leaving the show. Who were the stars tonight? Who slipped, in my eyes!?
As I promised, I want to address so many of you about the fact that contestants are leaving as couples. This has not happened in the history of Sytycd. Trust me, there is no conspiracy. We do not have to do this because of the network or Nigel. We would love nothing better to see a mix-match of partnerships, since this is the part of the show where we usually see a partner shift.
We try to take everything into account...
As I promised, I want to address so many of you about the fact that contestants are leaving as couples. This has not happened in the history of Sytycd. Trust me, there is no conspiracy. We do not have to do this because of the network or Nigel. We would love nothing better to see a mix-match of partnerships, since this is the part of the show where we usually see a partner shift.
We try to take everything into account...
- 7/15/2011
- by Mary Murphy
- EW.com - PopWatch
You want to be in the top 10? You can't handle the top 10!
And as much as effusive "Modern Family" star and guest judge Jesse Tyler Ferguson would like all the dancers to carry on for another week, two more members of the "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 8 cast will fall during Thursday's results.
So before we tear these happy partnerships apart, forcing the remaining 10 into the strong, experienced arms of the "Sytycd" all-stars, they get one more night together.
And two dances.
But who made the best of their first double feature -- and who's almost definitely dancing for their life this week? We've got analysis, couple by couple, right here:
Alexander and Sasha
Dance #1: Tony Meredith and Melanie Lapatin (she of the greatest "Sytycd" moment ever) choreograph a postmodern Paso Doble where the dancers play dueling matadors. The judges don't go overboard in their praise, but...
And as much as effusive "Modern Family" star and guest judge Jesse Tyler Ferguson would like all the dancers to carry on for another week, two more members of the "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 8 cast will fall during Thursday's results.
So before we tear these happy partnerships apart, forcing the remaining 10 into the strong, experienced arms of the "Sytycd" all-stars, they get one more night together.
And two dances.
But who made the best of their first double feature -- and who's almost definitely dancing for their life this week? We've got analysis, couple by couple, right here:
Alexander and Sasha
Dance #1: Tony Meredith and Melanie Lapatin (she of the greatest "Sytycd" moment ever) choreograph a postmodern Paso Doble where the dancers play dueling matadors. The judges don't go overboard in their praise, but...
- 7/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Adam Rose/Fox Cat Deeley hosts “So You Think You Can Dance”
It’s down to the final 6 couples, and next week they will break up the pairs. So tonight, the couples dance twice! The judges give specific critiques and say interesting and useful things, overall. And if you were waiting for it, tonight’s the night Ryan got told.
Next week will be the top 10—those are the ones who tour. They’ll also announce who the All-Stars...
It’s down to the final 6 couples, and next week they will break up the pairs. So tonight, the couples dance twice! The judges give specific critiques and say interesting and useful things, overall. And if you were waiting for it, tonight’s the night Ryan got told.
Next week will be the top 10—those are the ones who tour. They’ll also announce who the All-Stars...
- 7/14/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
So You Think You Can Dance said goodbye to its first finalists last week when Missy Morelli, Iveta Kukosiute, Nick Young and Wadi Jones were all axed in a mass elimination following a second week of Top 20 performances (the first week was a non-elimination week). Kristen Chenoweth is the third guest judge of the series, following Megan Mullally last week, joining Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Lil C at the judges' table. Here's what the judges said: > Browse a full gallery of pictures from tonight's So You Think You Can Dance here Sasha Mallory and Alexander Fost - Contemporary Dance: A love story choreographed by Dee Caspary. Alex is a man who has nothing except the memory of the girl he lost (Sasha). The dance is set around a piano with the keys to the piano representing the key to his heart. Nigel calls it a good start to...
- 6/30/2011
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
Adam Rose/Fox Cat Deeley hosts “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Overall tonight, the judges talked a lot about Improvement. Probably because that was the rationale for keeping Ryan. They also talk a lot about the choreography. And emotional portrayal of character. Although the show is not supposed to be So We Think You Have Potential, or So You Think You Can Choreograph, or So You Think You Can Emote. There were four judges tonight instead of just three,...
Overall tonight, the judges talked a lot about Improvement. Probably because that was the rationale for keeping Ryan. They also talk a lot about the choreography. And emotional portrayal of character. Although the show is not supposed to be So We Think You Have Potential, or So You Think You Can Choreograph, or So You Think You Can Emote. There were four judges tonight instead of just three,...
- 6/30/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
alex 9 @ Yahoo! Video Alex Wong is a dancing wonder! Last night he totally nailed his hip-hop routine with tWitch, even though he’s never danced like that before in his life!
All of the So You Think You Can Dance top 9 dancers set the stage on fire last night, June 30, in another exciting show, but it was Alex Wong who truly brought the house down! Who knew this graceful ballet dancer could get down and dirty in some hard-hitting hip-hop?
Not only was Alex out of his element, but he was also paired up for the first same-sex dance of the season with all-star tWitch. Choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon’s concept featured the two men in a psychotherapy session, starring Alex as the patient and tWitch as his shrink. Given that the routine still allowed Alex to show off his ballet expertise with a couple of twirls and other moves,...
All of the So You Think You Can Dance top 9 dancers set the stage on fire last night, June 30, in another exciting show, but it was Alex Wong who truly brought the house down! Who knew this graceful ballet dancer could get down and dirty in some hard-hitting hip-hop?
Not only was Alex out of his element, but he was also paired up for the first same-sex dance of the season with all-star tWitch. Choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon’s concept featured the two men in a psychotherapy session, starring Alex as the patient and tWitch as his shrink. Given that the routine still allowed Alex to show off his ballet expertise with a couple of twirls and other moves,...
- 7/1/2010
- by Kirstin Benson
- HollywoodLife
By Sandrine Milet
Wednesday night's (June 30) "So You Think You Can Dance" was probably one of the more entertaining episodes of this still-young season. There were wardrobe malfunctions, contestant testimonies of their dance inspiration, new choreographers, solos from each of the dancers, standing ovations, yelling fans, more over-the-top statements from Adam and the first male-partnered routine on the show ever.
Adechike kicked the night off partnered with Lauren in a Dave Scott hip-hop routine. This was the first time we really got to see his personality shine through his dancing, and the judges were grateful. It was hard to tell if it was because of the talent of the (new) choreographer or because Adechike was so charmed by Lauren and was finally showing that chemistry that was so lacking in his previous performances.
Ashley has been impressing the judges week after week, and last night was no exception. Yet again she danced a contemporary routine,...
Wednesday night's (June 30) "So You Think You Can Dance" was probably one of the more entertaining episodes of this still-young season. There were wardrobe malfunctions, contestant testimonies of their dance inspiration, new choreographers, solos from each of the dancers, standing ovations, yelling fans, more over-the-top statements from Adam and the first male-partnered routine on the show ever.
Adechike kicked the night off partnered with Lauren in a Dave Scott hip-hop routine. This was the first time we really got to see his personality shine through his dancing, and the judges were grateful. It was hard to tell if it was because of the talent of the (new) choreographer or because Adechike was so charmed by Lauren and was finally showing that chemistry that was so lacking in his previous performances.
Ashley has been impressing the judges week after week, and last night was no exception. Yet again she danced a contemporary routine,...
- 7/1/2010
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
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