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Posts made in: June, 2009 (8) Currently Viewing: 1 - 8 of 8

June 4, 2009 at 9:35am

“So You Think You Can Dance” 2009: Excuses are the tools of the incompetent


Vegas Week! Already! Love it. Recapping the first night of Vegas Week is essentially pointless; we started with nearly 170 dancers and all but 36 of them got axed last night. There's just no way to keep up. I suspect that's doubly true for the...

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June 5, 2009 at 10:54am

“So You Think You Can Dance” 2009: The Top 20 revealed!


The selection episode for the Top 20 always leaves me feeling slightly annoyed. I get over it, of course, but typically at least half of the finalists are people we've never, ever seen before. A quarter of them we didn't even get to meet last...

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June 10, 2009 at 10:24pm

"So You Think You Can Dance" 2009 Top 20: I think I hear a train!

The first big performance night of the competition, and it did NOT disappoint. The truth is out of the 10 dances, none of them were complete duds. There were only two or three really brilliant numbers, but overall I think all of the contestants...

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June 11, 2009 at 10:15pm

"So You Think You Can Dance" 2009: Paris is burning

Missed the opening number, which was apparently a Shane Sparks joint (interesting, since I thought he'd jumped the ship to "America's Best Dance Crew") to Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow." I have it on good authority that it kind of...

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June 17, 2009 at 10:24pm

"So You Think You Can Dance" 2009 Top 18: Go buck yourself, Lil C

Cat Deeley came out looking like she wrapped herself in a crimson bed ruffle. I was good with it. Lil C was the guest judge. UGH. He is insufferable. Even when Cat asked him a perfectly innocuous question ("Did you watch last week's episode at...

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June 18, 2009 at 10:21pm

“So You Think You Can Dance” 2009: So you think you can just stand there?

Group number to "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder. The dancers were all shoeless, dressed in crisp black suits with tribal face tattoos. It was a weird combination. The stage was bear except for the massive lighting towers behind them. The routine...

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June 24, 2009 at 10:20pm

"So You Think You Can Dance" 2009 Top 16: 10 million viewers looking at her butt

Toni Basil and her AMAZING beret was the guest host. She babbled on for a while about how she was a locking pioneer. I suppose that's true, it just seems weird for this tiny white lady to go on about bringing street dance to the people. But there...

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June 25, 2009 at 10:54pm

"So You Think You Can Dance" 2009: Ballroom blitz

The dancers kicked off the show with a spicy, Latin-inspired hip-hop routine (how often do you see those words next to each other?) to Pitbull's "I Want You Want Me." And it was H-O-T, HOT!. It started off slow with Spanish guitar, pulsing beats...

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