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Oh, this post makes me so happy! After work, I’m going to watch each and every one of these clips about five times. I have other favorite routines from the season, and wasn’t able to watch the Australian show while it was one, but your choices please me.

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Don’t have time to watch all of it now, but: Breakdancing + Bohemian Rhapsody = even more awesome than it sounds.

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This reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask for a while: from whence comes your interest in reality-show dance? What’s your background in it? Comics, I can understand, legal stuff, sure, but are you an amateur (or professional) dancer as well? I’m not trying to question your credentials (So You Think You Can Judge So You Think You Can Dance?); I’m just curious about what your perspective on it is.

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I started watching with the first season and it prompted me to take ballroom lessons. I’m certainly not competition-level by any standard, but I’ve taken a good number of salsa and mambo classes and some waltz. Everything else is just “I like watching it” and learning to look for the elements that make something good in something you like.

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Jason Barnett said on December 29th, 2009 at 8:19 am

Did anyone ever repost the opening number to the finale of the Austrailian version that you linked when you reviewed it? THe version you had in there was taken down but I always thought it was awesome and would love to see it again.

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I think Jeanine and Jason’s contemporary (the one Travis choreographed) deserves a spot on any top 10 list of this year. That was one of my fave performances from any season and I mostly hate contemporary, otherwise good list.

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JQ_NW_American said on December 29th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

This list reminds me of one of the many reasons I didn’t like Brandon. In ballroom, he tended to… queen out. Look at his hands in both the paso doble and the cha cha cha—overly extended and fanned fingers, not dancing through the carriage but through the extremities in a rather feminine way. I still don’t think he had much sexy chemistry with Janette or Jeanine; the tango being an exception because tango calls for an aloof intensity.

It seems like they want to pair male dancers who are good in everything else but (potentially, in the case of Mark) effeminate in ballroom and pair them with sexy female ballroom dancers who will dance like a sexy lady enough to counterbalance their indifferent lead. See: Janette & Brandon, Ashleigh & Jakob, Anya & Danny. One might conjecture an attempt was made with Chelsie & Mark, but Mark proved everyone wrong when he nailed it time after time.

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Wow, I can’t entirely agree with you there. While I’ll spot you the hands (which to me is a relatively minor flaw when paired with near-perfect footwork), from my perspective if there’s one distinctive thing about Brandon’s overall method of dance, it’s that he dances from his core, rather than letting his limbs direct his flow.

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Did anyone ever repost the opening number to the finale of the Austrailian version that you linked when you reviewed it?

It’s still up here

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Hooray! Great list!

Except I have to wonder why Jeanette and Brandon’s Argentine tango only ranked at #9. It was unbelievably good even by professional standards.

And I have a really tough time with the Talia and Laredo “Romeo and Juliet” number. The dancing is fantastic, but it feels so weighted down by the shtick. The set, the costumes (Laredo shirtless but ruffled?), the Taylor Swift, the literalism…YIKES. Amazing dancing, but YIKES. You’re such a 13-year-old girl for making that #3.

Sean Cheeseman is the man, though.

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anonymous said on January 6th, 2010 at 9:20 pm

I’m surprised Mia Micheals’ Addiction dance did not make it to the list.

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ApathyMonger said on January 8th, 2010 at 7:59 pm

The UK edition of SYTYCD starts tomorrow. Only seen bits and pieces of the US show, but I might tune in.

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