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mygif

Dude that clip was sikkkk.

Please give me SYTYDC Australia discs instead of giving them to Jean Marc Genereux.

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It is rather irritating trying to find audition clips on the youtubes. I’m no dance aficionado, but I’m intrigued by these videos- you’d think that they might want to make it easier for me to find more of them.

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That was a fun clip.

And the contrast between his dancing style and the music definitely made him stand out more. This guy know how to sell himself. The question is, can he produce more than a pop and lock?

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Alright, where the Hell do you watch this? That was less of a person and more of a Heavenly incarnation sent to remind us that we have legs.

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I didn’t see the UK version, but I suspect it had fewer finalists because they didn’t want to commit to too many shows, given that it’s an unproven entity airing in the peak Saturday prime time slot. Other reality shows in that slot tend to get a ten week run, which I think is what SYTYCD is getting. Even the slot’s champ, Strictly Come Dancing, ran for only seven or eight weeks in its first seasons before ramping up to twelve or thirteen week seasons.

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I just watched it, and I am gobsmacked at the level of dancing (and commitment) in the first episode, and the refreshingly low-key judges. (Although I disagree about the editing — the way some audition songs get cut off stood out poorly for me.)

As for Oz being a hotbed of dance despite having a relatively small population, it’s just like Utah in the US (34th sez Wiki), which has been a dancing mill for the Yankee show.

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Hee, that dude is adorable. Look at him grinning all through that!

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It is rather irritating trying to find audition clips on the youtubes. I’m no dance aficionado, but I’m intrigued by these videos- you’d think that they might want to make it easier for me to find more of them.

Except that Ten, the Aussie network that broadcasts it, wants you to go to their homepage and watch it! Which you cannot do if you are not Australian! (American TV networks do not have a monopoly on net.irritation.)

Alright, where the Hell do you watch this?

I believe there is this thingy that rhymes with “Schmittorrent.”

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You know, MGK, you could come and work here for a year on a work visa ANYWAY. The sun shines all the time, the beaches are wonderful, the Environment Minister’s a rock star, the good guys are in power and in Sydney the trains are bright yellow, so it looks like they’re smiling all the time. Oh, and everyone’s tanned and gorgeous, even the withered and elderly.

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I am not a dancing fan. It is nice to watch, but I know too little about it to be able to pick out what was good or bad, just what I liked and didn’t like.

But this clip warmed my little metal heart, because there was just so much love in it! 1 minute and 16 seconds of feel good television. It summed up your post perfectly.

You might make a fan of me yet…

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@BlackMage

Not to mention irukandji jellyfish, funnel web spiders and a ban of all porn featuring women with b-cups or smaller because the government thinks its too close to child pornography.

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jeditanuki said on February 4th, 2010 at 4:22 pm

-I believe there is this thingy that rhymes with “Schmittorrent.”

I hate to be ‘that guy’, but is there a website that rhymes with something? Cause I’ve been looking and looking, and I can’t find a place to…schmittorrent this (as opposed to season 2, which was fantastic, of course).

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@jeditanuki
its called the(person who wears a patch over one eye, a parrot on a shoulder and always says “arrrrrr”)bay.

I love coming to this blog. It always feeds my Aussie pride

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I’m not sure what I like about that clip the most: the audacity of a pop-and-locker dancing to Vanessa Carlton (of all things), or him busting out a flying somersault leap just to show he can, or Lythgoe getting involved enough to mouth along with the song, or Coleman visibly pleased with the audition and his comment to that effect

What you actually loved the most was “if I could just C U”.

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As an Australian who only watched the US SYTYCD in its early seasons and the AU SYTYCD in the first season, I actually thought that the US version was better – the dancers were sharper and the production better.

However… the AU version not having judges who were complete knobs really helped. A major reason I stopped watching the US version was the judges.

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Ooooh I just found this site and I’m loving your breakdown of the Australian SYTYCD (which I’m currently watching – just watched top 14 last night).

Please keep writing!

All the episodes are posted here: http://dance.ten.com.au/episodes.htm

If you’re unable to watch them because you’re not located in Australia, perhaps you can do something IT tricky – IP/domain forwarding.

I end up watching most of them online because my TV signal/recording quality is absolutely awful.

Also, I think the US production of the show is a little better. Often the camera work in the AU version actually comes in too close and I can’t watch what I want to watch. Too much directing?

I also think the quality of the dancers is a bit higher in the US – certainly when you watch the first or second week of performances you see a lot of fumbles in the AU show – almost as if they didn’t get enough rehearsal time.

Ivy is probably my favourite dancer in this season. And the hip hop routine from the performance show was just amazing!

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Oh yeah – and the B-Boy Project Moda routine from performance week with Don and Gaz – that was like nothing I’d ever seen on SYTYCD before!

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