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‘SYTYCD’ Top 18 to 16 Recap: Street Protest
In last week’s So You Consider You Can Dance recap/rant, I expressed concern about this season’s newly introduced Twitter Save, which allows fans (East Coast fans, that is) to live-tweet last-minute votes and preserve two contestants each week. I’d worried that regular ol’ laypeople wouldn’t create the right decisions. But lo and behold, this week it was the judges, the supposed experts, who got it wrong.
I don’t want to become too spoiler-y here (feel free to hit your scroll bar if you want to skip vertical to the cringeworthy Team Street results), but here are a few hints: The judges chose to save a contestant who’d literally been in the worst routine of the night and had (deservedly) received the night’s harshest critiques, over a guy who’d been in the one of the top dances and had earned mostly positive feedback. Why? Either Paula Abdul has a crush on this dude, or Nigel Lythgoe OBE thinks this controversial character, with his horrible attitude and pretty confront, is good for ratings. Well, we shall view what the ratings are like next week, I guess. I don’t consider many SY August 4th, 2010 Well, America, the power is finally in your hands. I’ve written briefly in the past about how So You Think You Can Dance represents a strange sort of mediated democracy, in that the judges maintain authority over who goes home (albeit out of a Bottom Three selected by America) for a large portion of the competition – while it purports to awarding the title of “America’s Favourite Dancer,” America isn’t involved in the process until the finals launch, and even then their influence is limited up until a certain point. While Season Seven has seen a lot of changes for the series, the one I uncover most interesting is that Nigel Lythgoe and his producers chose to stay until the closing week before the finals to spin things over to America – instead of taking manipulation halfway through the competition, as we’ve seen in previous years, America gets to make one single un-aided choice regarding an elimination. I’m intensely curious to know whether this was something they ha Erica: Greetings, twist fans! Boy, it’s been a long time! Kate: Over 2 years, to be exact. We boycotted last year’s stupid season, and this season started a bit later in the summer than usual. Erica: We boycotted last season because we don’t believe in the exploitation of children. Nor did we wish to hear what Nigel had to say about 13-year-old girls. Kate: Ew. Erica: This season, I’ll confess, I was on the fence. We hadn’t done last season and I loath lack of continuity. Plus I have a neonate and the baby makes it difficult to find anything done. Kate: I didn’t even know it was starting again until a dear friend reminded me via text and confirmed they were done with the 13-year-old nonsense. Erica: But then! Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles! THEY BROUGHT MARY MURPHY BACK! So, decision made and here we are. Kate: Yes, that was also a factor. Erica: Now, it seems they’re changing some things up this season. It’s the top 10, not the top 20, dancers, for one. Plus, if I am not mistaken, something new happened with the selection of the top 10? Did the all-stars get to pick? I didn’t watch. I really should watch. Kate: They only held auditions in New Yor #1: Tahani Anderson (Hip-Hop) Tahani looks and acts almost exactly like my niece, so this opinion might be a bit biased. She captivated me instantly (I guess vomiting on Paula Abdul out of sheer excitement is the way to my heart). She’s so outgoing, but mild-mannered. She personified my image of a Girl Scout. Yet, when she performed she was a completely different person. She could mean mug with the best of them and she could deliver an emotionally charged performance with ease and with sincerity. For such a immature girl, she really had a maturity about her to be able access those parts of herself, especially considering the evidence the the 18-20 year olds on this exhibit often have trouble doing just that. In regards to her dancing, I notice that the judges majorly down-played her talent due to her enormous fanbase and the fact that she did not emerge to be the producers’ intended winner. She was a beast in her own style. She annihilated every form of Hip-Hop that she got (including Dancehall?). Where she did not get nearly enough credit was in her Contemporary and Jazz approach. This girl has marvelous technique, yet the judges acted as if she wasn’t trained and couldn We've made it DanceFans! The recital finale. The last chance for the dancers to impress the judges and get votes from America. Nobody goes home tonight. We'll crown a winner next week. You'd think this would make for a more relaxed performance, but typically dancers get a case of the yips around this hour every season. There are more routines to learn in the same amount of prep occasion. Filling 2 hours airtime with only 4 contestants left means it's likely (at least) one routine hasn't gotten enough time to really come together. Now that the live episodes don't go on as long as they did in earlier seasons, there's less burn out or struggles with injury. But the tension and nerves joined to the approach the finish line remains a genuine thing. Let's notice who can hold it together, shall we? Top 4 and All-Star Group Routine - choreographed by Mandy More to a music Medley of CATS, inspired by the upcoming movie. Are we getting Broadway-style CATS costumes? Movie-style CGI-fur? No, we're getting regular clothes! What? not event headbands topped with cat ears? The routine itself is charming. Mandy combines the imagery of the white kitten with Grizabella's tune which fe
SYTYCD Season 7’s Highest 4: With Fantastic Power Comes Blatant Posturing
Season 7’s Top 4: With Great Influence Comes Blatant Posturing