Well, this is starting off on the wrong foot for me - I thought I had it all under control, had the VCR (yes, I still deal in old technology) set early and everything all prepared... only to find out that the auditions were on a different channel than I thought! So early apologies for all that I miss and names that I butcher.
We're officially into Season 6 now of So You Think You Can Dance US, and it's going to be interesting to see how we juggle two shows at once! I'd like to ask the producers if maybe next year they can cut us some slack and give us just a little more time between Seasons... :) Ditto
So tonight on the panel we have Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and yay, Adam Shankman. I always enjoy him and what he has to say. Yay Shankers!
Cat gives us a quick overview of how the auditions work and tells us that Pasha and Anya will be handling the choreography sessions.
Our first guy is Cole Clemens, who feels he's a bit of a trendsetter, and hopes that Nigel will at least tell him he's unique. And off we go. Nigel keeps asking for them to cue the music, until he realizes... there isn't any for this particular piece. But Cole has it all under control. He utters "Allure. Seduce. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter." And then "The candles blow out on us too." Whoosh. As in, blowing out the candle of life, I suppose.
Not so much dancing as an interpretive... haiku or something. The audience is... very... quiet... and then the judges send him on his way. We hear Adam mutter something that gets bleeped out... tee hee! Perhaps he should've used that word in his dance?
Mollee Gray is next... and right of the bat, I think she is lovely. We get a story about how her family moved from Utah to California so that she could pursue her dream of dance, complete with a few emotional words from her mother.
She's dancing to a cool cover of Phil Colin's Against All Odds by The Postal Service, and yes indeed, she is lovely. The judges seem mesmerized by her. They call her adorable, with amazing potential and send her straight to Vegas. What a little cutie! Totally cute. Great potential.
They breeze through a few more dancers - David someone, Amanda Kirby and Brandon Dumlao... I think they all get tickets to Vegas, but it's hard to be certain as they are going so quickly. I guess that's what happens with just one hour.
Now here's a familiar face - Ryan Kasprzak... He auditioned last year with his brother Evan, who made it all the way to the Top 4 last season. He does a cool number that is tap and commentary/singing... and the judges eat it up. Adam gives him a standing O and calls him a "freaking artist". They tell him he has great style and dignity, and that he is unique and brilliant. And off to Vegas he goes. I see the Top 20 in his future this year.
Another return from last year is Bianca Rebels, another tap dancer. Last year when she didn't make it, she said she wasn't going to come back, but after re-evaluating the situation, here she is.
The judges ask her if she's ever done a tap battle before, and indeed she has - and now she wants to take on Ryan! Fun!
But first, Ryan informs us that tappers don't "battle", they "trade". Good to know.
Now this is cool. I have to wonder if they've practised this, because it's fantastic. Really great. I'm definitely seeing at least one Tapper in the Top 20 this year.
Adam in speechless, but then recovers enough to say he has the greatest job in the world. And then they send Bianca to Vegas as well.
Next up is Christopher Aguilar. He has a plan. Which is to produce a film. Of which we get a small sample. It's called Drum Song.
He does a performance to All That Jazz from Chicago, and if nothing else, the judges are enjoying the song. In fact, they seem to be on uppers.
This routine is... a bit... odd! Odd? Really? I'm thinking more....craptastic?
The judges tell him he does not have the technical skills and that he needs to train more, take more classes. He goes on about some thesis, something about trading male and female characters to see if it... I don't know, he lost me at hello... They send him on his way.
And zip zip through choreography, we don't get to see any of it, or find out who made it through to Vegas.
Day 1 is over, and now it's a new day.
Amber Williams is up first and we learn about a surgery her mother had to remove a cyst on her spine. But the doctors screwed something up, and she came out in a wheelchair. Wow. How much would that suck.
Amber does a contemporary piece and the judges look enthralled with her. They commend her for her technique and call her a beautiful dancer, and then give her a ticket to Vegas.
Christina Santana takes the stage next with a partner to do a salsa, with a little bit of hip hop mixed in. I'm not sure how I feel about the mix, but the judges seem to love it, and another one heads to Sin City.
They do a "bad dancer" montage, which looks somewhat entertaining, but we don't really get any details.
Another tapper, Phillip Attmore, is up next, and he's friends with Ryan, they've roomed together in the past. Cat tries to get some dirt on Ryan, and we find out that he has a happy face tattooed on his butt. Huh. Cat's off to confirm that for us. He does strike me as a 'butt tattoo' kind of guy. Not at all surprised to learn this about Ryan.
This guy is really good, and the judges are thrilled with him. They call him superb, fantastic, a really clean dancer, and give him a ticket.
Boom boom bap, another choreography session that we see nothing of, but we do learn that 10 more dancers have been given a place in the finals.
It's into Arizona next week (not sure what day, or even what channel!) - and that, my friends, is that. Talk about flying through it all!
Have a great night!
Now I have to go watch my latest addiction, thanks very much to Kim. Like there isn't enough TV to watch these days... Glee, here I come!
We're officially into Season 6 now of So You Think You Can Dance US, and it's going to be interesting to see how we juggle two shows at once! I'd like to ask the producers if maybe next year they can cut us some slack and give us just a little more time between Seasons... :) Ditto
So tonight on the panel we have Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and yay, Adam Shankman. I always enjoy him and what he has to say. Yay Shankers!
Cat gives us a quick overview of how the auditions work and tells us that Pasha and Anya will be handling the choreography sessions.
Our first guy is Cole Clemens, who feels he's a bit of a trendsetter, and hopes that Nigel will at least tell him he's unique. And off we go. Nigel keeps asking for them to cue the music, until he realizes... there isn't any for this particular piece. But Cole has it all under control. He utters "Allure. Seduce. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter." And then "The candles blow out on us too." Whoosh. As in, blowing out the candle of life, I suppose.
Not so much dancing as an interpretive... haiku or something. The audience is... very... quiet... and then the judges send him on his way. We hear Adam mutter something that gets bleeped out... tee hee! Perhaps he should've used that word in his dance?
Mollee Gray is next... and right of the bat, I think she is lovely. We get a story about how her family moved from Utah to California so that she could pursue her dream of dance, complete with a few emotional words from her mother.
She's dancing to a cool cover of Phil Colin's Against All Odds by The Postal Service, and yes indeed, she is lovely. The judges seem mesmerized by her. They call her adorable, with amazing potential and send her straight to Vegas. What a little cutie! Totally cute. Great potential.
They breeze through a few more dancers - David someone, Amanda Kirby and Brandon Dumlao... I think they all get tickets to Vegas, but it's hard to be certain as they are going so quickly. I guess that's what happens with just one hour.
Now here's a familiar face - Ryan Kasprzak... He auditioned last year with his brother Evan, who made it all the way to the Top 4 last season. He does a cool number that is tap and commentary/singing... and the judges eat it up. Adam gives him a standing O and calls him a "freaking artist". They tell him he has great style and dignity, and that he is unique and brilliant. And off to Vegas he goes. I see the Top 20 in his future this year.
Another return from last year is Bianca Rebels, another tap dancer. Last year when she didn't make it, she said she wasn't going to come back, but after re-evaluating the situation, here she is.
The judges ask her if she's ever done a tap battle before, and indeed she has - and now she wants to take on Ryan! Fun!
But first, Ryan informs us that tappers don't "battle", they "trade". Good to know.
Now this is cool. I have to wonder if they've practised this, because it's fantastic. Really great. I'm definitely seeing at least one Tapper in the Top 20 this year.
Adam in speechless, but then recovers enough to say he has the greatest job in the world. And then they send Bianca to Vegas as well.
Next up is Christopher Aguilar. He has a plan. Which is to produce a film. Of which we get a small sample. It's called Drum Song.
He does a performance to All That Jazz from Chicago, and if nothing else, the judges are enjoying the song. In fact, they seem to be on uppers.
This routine is... a bit... odd! Odd? Really? I'm thinking more....craptastic?
The judges tell him he does not have the technical skills and that he needs to train more, take more classes. He goes on about some thesis, something about trading male and female characters to see if it... I don't know, he lost me at hello... They send him on his way.
And zip zip through choreography, we don't get to see any of it, or find out who made it through to Vegas.
Day 1 is over, and now it's a new day.
Amber Williams is up first and we learn about a surgery her mother had to remove a cyst on her spine. But the doctors screwed something up, and she came out in a wheelchair. Wow. How much would that suck.
Amber does a contemporary piece and the judges look enthralled with her. They commend her for her technique and call her a beautiful dancer, and then give her a ticket to Vegas.
Christina Santana takes the stage next with a partner to do a salsa, with a little bit of hip hop mixed in. I'm not sure how I feel about the mix, but the judges seem to love it, and another one heads to Sin City.
They do a "bad dancer" montage, which looks somewhat entertaining, but we don't really get any details.
Another tapper, Phillip Attmore, is up next, and he's friends with Ryan, they've roomed together in the past. Cat tries to get some dirt on Ryan, and we find out that he has a happy face tattooed on his butt. Huh. Cat's off to confirm that for us. He does strike me as a 'butt tattoo' kind of guy. Not at all surprised to learn this about Ryan.
This guy is really good, and the judges are thrilled with him. They call him superb, fantastic, a really clean dancer, and give him a ticket.
Boom boom bap, another choreography session that we see nothing of, but we do learn that 10 more dancers have been given a place in the finals.
It's into Arizona next week (not sure what day, or even what channel!) - and that, my friends, is that. Talk about flying through it all!
Have a great night!
Now I have to go watch my latest addiction, thanks very much to Kim. Like there isn't enough TV to watch these days... Glee, here I come!
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