If I Ruled The SYTYCD Universe…
August 17, 2008
…I would watch only the contemporary couples.
For a blog I do elsewhere, I put myself in the place of one of the judges this year determining which performances would be reprised in the finale. I definitely agreed with including Will & Katee’s Pas de Deux, Mark & Courtney’s Jazz by Sonya Tayeh, and Katee & Josh’s Bollywood routines. Find out what I might’ve replaced the rest with, after the jump.
The Finale would’ve been long on contemporary and very short on Broadway, hip-hop and ballroom. Perhaps I will learn to appreciate those genres more next year. In the meantime, here’re the five I would have chosen:
1) A Mandy Moore choreographed number. Perhaps this one:
2) IMO, one of the best Mark/Chelsie routines (I really liked [i]Bleeding Love[/i], but this one had me at Top 20):
3) One or both of these from Katee & Joshua:
4) This one from Courtney & Gev:
and, 5) This astonishing number from Will & Jessica (was she dancing this one with the broken rib? I think maybe she was!):
Entry Filed under: Dance. Tags: Chelsie Hightower, contemporary dance, Courtney Galiano, Gev Manoukian, Jessica King, Joshua Allen, Katee Shean, Mark Kanemura, Mia Michaels, paso doble, So You Think You Can Dance, Sonya Tayeh, SYTYCD Finale, Tyce DiOrio, William Wingfield.
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