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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...