…well, the ones that weren’t to music by Warner Music Group, anyway. which is a shame because Warner’s Youtube boycott kills most of the great ballroom and also Justin Johnson’s mindblowing tap solo. (That having been said: trust me, watch to the end. The last one in particular is mindblowingly awesome.)
JR (second) reminds me in style astoundingly of Twitch.
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*Every* time I watch Jeff Mortensen do that gloriously fluid sequence (pinche – cartwheel – handstand turn – lay back on floor) it kills me dead. *Dead*, I say!
(And, you’re right: JR is indeed very “Twitchy”)
I’m more impressed by people who can dance well who haven’t gone to school for it for years, as all of these entrants clearly have.
This is a mindset that is totally alien to me. “I like creative efforts better when the people involved haven’t spent a lot of time trying to make themselves better at it.” What? No, seriously. What?
Luca is downright amazing. I’d absolutely love it if he got on the show – but would it turn in to routines centered around his particular abilities?
You mean like how B-boys inevitably get choreo that lets them do a lot of groundwork? 🙂
Sadly, although Luca got sent through straight to the second round and advanced through the hip-hop and theatre stages (interpreting the choreo to stuff that he could do on his crutches), he got cut thereafter because it was dead obvious he couldn’t do ballroom.
Exactly like B-Boys 😀
I loved the one to Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies. (You just know that girl’s mom stuck her in ballet classes as a kid and she was always coming in with skinned knees and a dirty face and then messing around making up dances of her own in the corner.)
@SilverMoonWolf: Yeah…what?
I’m impressed by people who dance well, and the better someone dances, the more impressed I am (I mean, as far as I can tell what ‘good’ dancing is)… I fail to see where their having training fits in.
I was so sad when we lost track of Janayne (tapper) and Sarah (hip hop) in finals week. I don’t even know if they got there and got cut, or what, since it was apparently so far between auditions and finals due to the Olympics.
And with JR, it’s a combination of the movement and the humor, I think, that makes me dream of the day that he and Twitch might be put together on a stage.
Dunno about Janaye, but Sarah showed up (briefly) in the “final cut to 22” episode on Sunday, so she made it to final round.
Can I import SYTYCD Canada stateside somehow? I’ve lapsed into total non-care with the US version and I would like some more of what I am seeing in this video instead. I do not want to THIEVE it from you, Dear Neighbors to the North, just to observe from a respectful and loving distance.
It seems to me these people are able to blend genres much more fluidly than their American counterparts. Any time ballet and hip-hop can be done together means I’m that much more interested.