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When Clarice and Jess’s hip hop was over, the person I was watching with looked over at me and saw my hand was tightly gripped over my mouth. She thought I was about to cry and was very moved by the piece. Then she realized I was trying my absolute hardest not to laugh out loud at that ridiculous painting unveiled at the end. That was the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a long time. It was the SYTYCD version of the “Hello” music video.

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The painting reveal would have totally redeemed the piece if it had been a painting of Jess.

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Do you think the American version has the opportunity to be as good as the Canadian version, if there was more variety of dancers and dances and better choreo? Or, are the Canadian dancers just that much better?

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Do you think the American version has the opportunity to be as good as the Canadian version, if there was more variety of dancers and dances and better choreo? Or, are the Canadian dancers just that much better?

I don’t think it’s a question of the Canadian dancers being better – after all, they mostly danced in-style their first night. I think it’s a question of variance: after the first two eliminations, the remaining 20 Canadian dancers are one-quarter hip-hop, one-quarter ballroom and one-half technical. On top of that, as last season demonstrated, having Luther Brown be your proving ground for hip-hop means people who just can’t dance it get tossed, whereas contemporary dancers can fake their way through Nappytabs easily enough and get jizzed over by judges who don’t know the style well enough to criticize it.

(It’s worth remembering that Nappytabs didn’t start doing the hip-hop training in Vegas week until season five, which is almost exactly when hip-hop on the show started going downhill.)

Similarly, having Jean-Marc do his insane ballroom routines with France for the Canadian ballroom training means that only people who have a shot at being able to do decent ballroom get through. Gilkison is very contemporary-friendly as choreographers go.

I’m not sure if the Vegas training’s additional simplicity and/or bias towards contemporary dancers is weakening the overall quality of dancers. But I don’t think it helps.

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I miss being nervous when good dancers drew styles that were very different from their own. Now, in order to make it to the top 20, dancers have to be pretty much blandly competent across the board (except Bollywood, Russian folk, and tap).

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