Sorry I’m late with my SYTYCD post today. I’m having a little (well, a big, a huge) problem with my extremely noisy upstairs neighbor, aka Godzilla, and am hardly sleeping.
Anyway, so last night is the first night of this season where, now that we have the top five couples (top ten dancers) we switch to a different format. We now see each dancer perform a group dance, a solo, and duet with a partner chosen randomly from a hat. And now the voting is all up to audiences, no more judge votes.
The two group numbers were the Bollywood routine for the girls, and the African dance for the guys. Okay, I loved the African dance, but, honestly, if you’ve ever really seen true African dance, you know just how bad it really was 🙂 And not just Evan (who was rather cute I thought, making fun of himself for being the only white guy up there, sticking his stomach out and kind of making a joke of his dorky looks. This is the kind of thing that endears me to him). I mean, the movement wasn’t really there for any of them — it looked like a lot of flailing about. But it doesn’t really matter — it just matters that they tried and they (almost!) kept up with the stamina, and they had fun and gave it their best shot. And we got to see African dance. It goes to show how much technique that kind of dance requires, how much training is involved, to make it right. Anyway, thank you to new-to-the-show choreographer Jeffery Page for creating that.
I liked the dancing in the Bollywood routine better.
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