Not as bland as season 5 (AKA “So You Think You Can Dance Contemporary And Not Much Else”), but still – it seems more than ever that female hip-hop dancers are effectively dead on this show, despite that whenever they make it top top 20 they invariably do reasonably well. (Comfort top 8 season four, Sara top 6 season three, Donyelle top 4 season 2, et cetera). I suppose that “only” eleven contemporary dancers is about as low as the show is willing to go.
I was kind of rooting for vaguely-Hispanic-looking-guy-with-moustache – I really liked his Broadway performance from last week and knew he was a hip-hop dancer – but I guess they felt they’d been adventurous enough putting through Russell, Kevin and Legacy, to say nothing of three tap dancers. (Speaking of tap dancers, what is all this “first tapper in So You Think You Can Dance” business? Sandra from season 1 was a tapper. Have we all erased her from show memory now?)
EDIT TO ADD: Oh, yeah, and there’s no way Russell doesn’t have some formal training. I’m laying odds on another Joshua-style “he’s an untrained dancer! If you don’t count the dance camps as training.”
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Yeah, I was wondering that about Sandra.
Still, I’m in love with Russell (and I generally do not like the krump), and Kevin’s pretty decent.
Legacy is an early out.
–M
“Speaking of tap dancers, what is all this “first tapper in So You Think You Can Dance” business? Sandra from season 1 was a tapper. Have we all erased her from show memory now?”
So You Think You Can Dance seems to work a lot like comics, in that anything that isn’t happening RIGHT NOW is both irrelevant and subject to constant haphazard retroactive rewriting.
RE: The Russell thing.
I have a fear that yon Russell is a reflexive liar.
B/c he was either lying here during his audition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJVcda65qlU (~1:39).
Or during Vegas when he said he was otherwise untrained.
I don’t care which, he’s my favorite. But this is within the same season and they’re already retconning. They’re like DC over there.
–M
Peter (tapper #3) will probably go home first, as he bears the curse of being the one I find most attractive, and that never works out well for anyone in this competition. In fact I could probably make a fairly accurate prediction of the order the men will leave in based on how attractive and/or charismatic I find them. This show is such a cock-blocker.
The oddity of this top 20 is that there’s no one that I’m just blindly rooting for like the last few seasons, because they’re ballroom dancers or they’re ludicrously old or I like their solo. The difference being, there are a number of people that I really, really dislike. If there was a way to vote against people, I’d be all over it. That Mollee chick is beyond irritating–stop crying, stop talking. Both male tappers have me full of ire–one seems to be a jerk, the other seems to be kind of dopey. Ashleigh was sucking left and right and the producers just wanted to bring in the husband-wife angle, whether long or short term. Of course she did good in Tyce DiOrio’s piece—they’re never particularly difficult. Meanwhile, go Bianca! (Not blindly.)
The good news is there’s less of a chance of having a contemporary couple—they very rarely do well together. I.E. Caitlyn + Jason. Kourtni + Matt. Chelsea + Thayne. Ricky + Ashlee. Jessica + Will. Among others.
Maybe they think Sandra made the top 16 in a season without the whole vegas process, rather than the top 20 in this current format.
And this show is scripted, edited, and it is not by accident that they showed a clip of Russell saying what his dance training is and then a clip where he apparently pretended he didn’t have training. Was he in control of that edit? no, I don’t thinks so. And all the attention to Mollee’s incredibly irritating voice? why? because it’s a schtick.
Word on the internet is that Russell went to a performing arts high school, mentioned it earlier in the audition process but the producers are doing that “No training!” edit on him. Much like they forgot that Comfort went to a performing arts high school so they could blame her sucking on no training.
Haaaate Mollee. She’s cute but is annoying as hell and acts like Miley Cyrus, and that just kills it for me.
While there aren’t any female dancer that’s labeled as hip hop this year, check out Pauline Mata’s vids on youtube. She’s got a bunch of hip hop videos up there, and she’s killing it every time.
Russell outright said during his audition that he’s got training on other styles (including tap), so they’re definitely just giving him a “No Training!!!1!one!!” edit.