sytycd

[alonewiththemoon]

I missed last night's audition show and I don't think I'll have time to watch it, but looking online I really liked these two performances:

Evan Kasprzak's Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals routine--I felt happy for him when he got that compliment from Nigel:

Uma Thurman-look-a-like Kourtni Lind's evocative piece to a Lydia-Lunch-ripping-off Ani DiFranco song.  The feet killed me:

I liked the tap dancer and the popper from Boston, too.

Comments

[xenoglaux]

I dislike the who 'Musical' genre but he did an excellent job.
I didn't like Kourtni's routine. It was technically proficient but... meh.

[alonewiththemoon]

The musical genre is also not my favorite style of dance, but I love watching someone performing what they love with passion, especially if it's not what most people are doing. I did like that he put a bit of swing into what he did.

[xenoglaux]

I really liked the tap dancer "I mean I auditioned before doing modern, but I'm a tapper!"

[alonewiththemoon]

That was great--I hope she goes on!

[xenoglaux]

me too!
Least deserving person sent to Vegas: the mediocre popper who cried.

[crystagoth-31.livejournal.com]

The feet got me too.

[bintblue.livejournal.com]

Those were my top two, or in my top three, for sure! Very good. I wasn't seeing Uma, but her and her mom were twins!

There were two tap dancers, I was shocked the first one made it--heavy, clunky, bad posture--and liked the second one a lot, fantastic with her duct taped shoes. Not sure which was the Boston one.

I can't believe there are 2 more hours tonight. Oy!

[alonewiththemoon]

The popper was from Boston--his last name was Kim, Michael Kim maybe? I didn't see the first tap dancer but it sounds like I didn't miss much.

I'm recording the show on the DVD-R so I can start watching at 9pm and skip the commercials--I'll still be done not much after 10pm. Two hours is a lot of tv time!

[bintblue.livejournal.com]

I am teaching tonight, so the dvd-r will also work it's magic here.

Wanted to edit my above post--the first tap dancer was not physically heavy, would not have mattered if she was. Her feet were heavy. :)

Did you see the minister guy who they stopped and asked if he found his dance partner attractive, and if so to act like it? When it came out after the dance that he was doing a choreography based on Solomon and reigning in desire it was like...whoops. Uncomfortable! I liked him, he seemed way intense, but probably should have auditioned solo.

[alonewiththemoon]

I missed the minister, but I read a review of the show that mentioned him and I was sorry to have missed it.

Tonight's show was excellent--watch for Bohemian Rhapsody late in the show! It made me literally LOL. Overall I'm pretty happy with the choices they made for the top 20, it looks like an interesting bunch with diverse dance backgrounds.

[goat.livejournal.com]

Eep! I didn't know the show was on Wednesday night, and apparently neither did my Tivo. Have there been any other Wednesday night showings of SYTYCD?

[alonewiththemoon]

It was on last Wednesday as well--I think the general pattern will be the big group numbers plus individual solos and partner dances will be on Wednesday, then America votes, then the results show/dance for your life will be on Thursday.

A good place to go if you miss a show and want a recap and some video is Blogging SYTYCD, the bloggers there write fairly well and generally seem to know what they are talking about.