So You Think You Can Dance? Oh yeah? C'mere a minute!

THE ENGLISH GUY HAS TIINY HANDS.

-- W4LTER

Can wee paws to reflect on this for a second?

http://www.poptower.com/images/db/1224/420/300/nigel-lythgoe.jpg

^^^^^^^
ASHAMED

He doesn't want to show his hand.

ATTN LEEEEEE: May 22

Good start to Season 4, the hip-hop guys were ridiculous last night.

The auditions in SLC were pretty awesome if only for the Choreographer's Daughter and the Ice Breaker!

So glad that Mandy is back and a judge this time.

Wowowow that ballet kid who danced to the Requiem for a Dream track!!

It's no American Idol but it will have to do.

Any standout performances from the past few seasons I should check out?

Scroll past all my navel-gazing down to the bottom where I list my favorite dances from season 3. No idea if any of the download links still work; Youtube vids tend to get culled of any SYTYCD performances, too. Generally: anything Wade Robson choreographed, half of what Mia Michael choreographs (keywords: travis+heidi+bench), a quarter of what Shane Sparks choreographs (SEARCH SEARCH SEARCH Jamile and Destini's hip hop).

Ugh, Requiem for a Dream is becoming the dancer cliche that refuses to die!

"becoming"

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True, it's no American Idol. It's a million bajillion times better.

So why didn't they send Mr. "Graduated from Julliard in three years" through to Vegas? Sure, he was annoying, but he was a great dancer.

Because he'd been to Vegas in seasons past, at which point he was one of the final cuts.

The Julliard guy seemed insecure and a bit too hung-up on trying to impress the judges - perhaps that's why his "perfect technique" came across as cold to me.

I'd agree with Lee's recommendations for S3 (except for Mr Pinstripe Suit), and would add Shauna's 2 solos in there. I would say most of the S3 routines are of a consistent quality, while S1&S2 were much more hit or miss (although S2 def had great moments with Ivan/Allison, Travis/Heidi, etc).

i have not seen any of this yet :( argh! and it's not being streamed on fox or hulu.

tehresa, :_(

OTOH, I've waited my entire life for someone nerdy enough to google himself to finally make it onto a reality tv show, as one of the auditioners left a comment on my blog! I'm big time now, folx, don't need to slum on ILX anymore.

for reference, the other (only?) comprehensive sytcd blog is: http://bloggingsytycd.blogspot.com/

Lots of video clips of the good auditions there too, in case you missed anything.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Brandon Bryant getting cut in favor of any of those other contemporary guys is a travesty.

That and Kelli Baker being cut seem to be the most obvious WTFs for me (and a lot of others too). I can only hope they are "saving" them for next season. Aren't they both still in their teens? I was also sort of hoping engineering girl Sheila would make it too, but alas.

Can't say I'm a huge fan of the whole 'speak out of turn, have the judges completely flip out' thing.

I am!

Loved most of the routines tonight, but top 20 night is usually my favorite show of the year.

My favorite of the night was the "No Air" hip-hop routine. I love Joshua.

I really hate the first name Kherington! If all the douchebag first names got together and had a baby they'd name her Kherington. Gross. At least her perma-smile served her well during the Broadway number.

argh i missed that, but i did see a bit in the recap and it looked like they were killing it!

Hip hop & Abu Ghraib!

Man, Nigel was really hyped up tonight. And who brought Sicily and Olestra back?

Katee & Joshua are running away with this so far. Although the best moment tonight might have been after Courtney/Gev's routine when Mia did the shooting gun gesture to the head right when Mary starting talking (screaming).

I really just want to see people fucking dance. I hate having a running commentary or some rhythm lacking soulless hack sitting & 'judging' people. I just want to be taken aback and amazed and go away and dance some more not hear how 'oooh where was the love in that?' I'LL DECIDE IF THERE WAS ANY LOVE.
Some of those dancers are smug mofo's tho.

You can always mute/post to ILX during the annoying parts where the judges blah blah blah.

Katee & Joshua

Are these the two who did the Broadway routine tonight? They just finished it was def my favorite so far.

Katee & Joshua were the Broadway couple and they are the couple to beat for me. Two weeks in a row they have been the best of the night for me.

I'd put Kherington and Twitch in my personal second place, although Mia Michaels was completely otm about K (I've decided not to type out her name anymore) needing to tone down the pageant smile.

Third I'd put Mark and Courtney (?). They don't have the strength and energy of the other two couples but you can tell that they really throw themselves into the choreography and they've been great both times as well.

Of course this is all coming from someone who's been dialing the American Idol voting # for the last few minutes so take it as you wish.

Has anyone else been infuriated by the amazingly shoddy camerawork this season? For fuck's sake, we don't want close-ups when people are dancing. I choose to blame new associate producer Barton Kimball, who, according to iMDB, cut his teeth as a PA for "Mind of Mencia."

Matt and Kortni are the tall couple, I think you might be talking about Mark and Chelsea?

Pretty cool Shane Sparks group routine tonight.

ok nigel saying kobe bryant is a 'great man' lolololol did someone forget a certain scandal???

california pride

Yeah, Mark and Chelsea I guess, who did the contemporary routine on Wednesday.

Wasn't surprised with Susie leaving, but I was surprised that they picked Chris over Marquis; I didn't find much passion or much of anything to Chris's solo.

Has anyone else been infuriated by the amazingly shoddy camerawork this season?

I've been annoyed by it on more than one occasion too...the angles can get a bit bizarre and in the transitions you lose focus of the dancing.

chris's solo was sloppy!

man so much filler and banter tonight. i guess it was kind of epic.

When they get to the top 4 guys (Twitch, Joshua, Will, Mark), I have no idea how any of them leaving the competition can be justified. They should all win.

(With the girls, you've got Katee and white Chelsea kind of running away from everyone else, sadly including my eternal girlfriend Comfort.)

missed tonight :\

Awesome: Twitch/Kherrington, Mark/Chelsea, Matt/Kourtni, Joshua/Katee
Good: Chris/Comfort, Will/Jessica, Gev/Courtney, Will/Jessica (<--- srsly I like them both and Will is obv super-talented but MOST OVERRATED COUPLE EVER)

did not see tonight but i have been totally impressed by twitch's adaptability! is he more adaptable than hawk was?

YES. Both he and Joshua are. J/K did a samba tonight that was GREAT!

#1 with a bullet: Joshua/Katee for the third week in a row
very close #2: Mark/Chelsea

I actually though Chris & Comfort's routine was better than the judges said (and I am not a fan of theirs) and I thought Twitch & K were not very good tonight (and I'm a fan of theirs).

I don't think blonde Courtney/Kortni/whatever & her partner deserve to be in the bottom three but I would really like to see her drop her partner and get with Will.

Comfort and Chris I want to like but they just haven't been dancing well so far. Chelsea/Thanye also seem to be on borrowed time.

Yay Comfort gets a new partner!

Joshua is unbelievable.

hmm blonde kortni whatever needs to step up. i like her, but damn, has reality tv taught her nothing about PERSONALITY!

I don't think any of the eliminations so far have been controversial. But the probable top ten is looking to be pretty awesome.

Best Mia Michaels routine, ever?