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Reality Shows

SYTYCD in Oakland!

Earlier this week my friend Geraldine had an extra ticket to the So You Think You Can Dance concert in Oakland and I, like the devoted fan I am, went to support the band of reality show dancers. It’s funny – right after she called to invite me, I got an email from the PR...

SYTYCD fatigue?

BLASPHEMY! Yeah, I think I am ready for this season to be over. I just want them to choose a winner and get it over with. After watching tonight, I just don’t really have a favorite. Actually I think my favorite was becoming Will until he got the boot. In a word, I am bored....

I was going to be on a reality show!!!

So if you read that again, it says was. Actually, I was just asked. One day, in this post-lay off era, I decided to check my messages from my work phone (before they cut it off). Some dude left a message asking if I was interested in being a part of this “reality show” project....

America’s Best Dance Crew: A quick recap

Okay, I am kind of pissed off about tonight’s show. Plus, I am kind of tired so that’s probably why I am a little irritable. This week was their “bring the beat” challenge, where the crews had to make “beats” to dance to. Kind of like “Stomp.” Anyways, here’s my take for tonight. I’ll keep...

What the hell is Slater wearing?

So I am watching America’s Best Dance Crew and it looks like Mario Lopez got that shirt from the clearance bin from the little boy’s section at JC Penney. Photo by: Polk Imaging But kudos to Fanny Pak for busting out that picture of Lopez during his jheri curl Slater days. And I have to...

So You Think You Can Dance loses two more!

Whoa. Things took an unexpected turn this evening on SYTYCD. First off, the bottom two guys were Will and Twitch. That’s a shock. The bottom two girls were Comfort and Courtney – okay, that’s not too shocking. And I must say that Cat Deeley looks like a cocktail waitress at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas. Enough...

SYTYCD elimination predictions…

Hmmm… Based on the bottom two pattern we’ve been seeing and on tonight’s solo performances, I would have to say Mark and Comfort. My choice is totally objective. I really like these two kids – they have spunk! I am basing it on what’s been going on with the show and on my reaction to...

So You Think You Can Dance: Chelsie and Joshua go DISCO!

The title says it all…the two disco bunnies did a disco by the lovely disco queen Doriana Sanchez… Doesn’t Doriana remind you of Stevie Nicks? There were some minor fumbles here – but they were eclipsed by those intense lifts. The disco routines always make me nervous, they seem like they’re going to be fun,...

So You Think You Can Dance: Comfort and Mark trot foxes

Comfort and Mark took on a glamorous foxtrot… Screw technique, this routine made me smile. In your face judges! You notice how Mary sounded like a dude when she started her critique?

So You Think You Can Dance: Katee really wants Twitch

For Katee and Twitch’s second routine, they made it hot with a Broadway routine by dance impresario Tyce… The couples are really using a lot of props tonight aren’t they? This was fun!!! Everyone is doing well tonight! I am so proud for each and everyone of them! As for Twitch and Katee, why didn’t...

So You Think You Can Dance Courtney, Will, lyrical hip-hop

Hmmm…another “slow” hip-hop routine. I like them, I just don’t like that term. Let’s check out Napoleon and Tabitha’s routine for Courtney and Will… Team N & T sure know how to choreograph some good emotional hip-hop shit. And they used an Alicia Keys song! This routine was quite light-as-air and it did make me...

So You Think You Can Dance – Joshua and Chelsie Tango!

Argentine tango that is… So the two made it hot with a routine by SYTYCD alum Dimitri. Hmmm…some of the videos seem to be having some technical difficulties…sorry about that. Did you like Dimitri’s feathered coif? Anyways good job you too. Joshua kinda looked a little too stumpy for such a routine that requires so...