So You Think You Can Dance? Gets Its Bollywood On
0 Comments Ryan Welton on Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM.In less than 24 hours, partnerships will be dissolved on So You Think You Can Dance? We'll have our Top 10.
Picking that group won't be difficult. It appears as if Comfort and Thayne are clear-cut choices to leave the competition Thursday night. During their two performances on Wednesday, a hip-hop number to Ne-Yo's "Can We Chill?" and a contemporary piece to George Michael's "A Different Corner," they were roundly criticized for not connecting with the audience.
Challenging Comfort for a role as "she who is eliminated come Thursday" is Jessica, who was unfairly dissed by guest host Mia Michaels tonight. In Jessica and Will Wingfield's first performance of the evening, they killed on a Tyce DiOrio contemporary piece to a song called "Silence."
It was gritty, organic, erotic -- and Jessica got high marks. Not that she's going to win SYTYCD this season, but she wasn't deserving of Michaels' comments after their second performance, a quick step to "Bandstand Boogie" from Barry Manilow.
Michaels said: "Will, you look tired. Tired of carrying Jessica."
Ouch.
We have a pair of extremes happening with this couple. First, there is a sort of "Will worship" so far thus season, and while the Debbie Allen protege is very good, I'm not sure he is a God just yet. Second, Jessica has been pretty good the past couple of weeks.
Twitch and Kherington faced some unusually strong criticism this week, particularly after a Jean-Marc Genereaux tango. Based on both performances, the first of which was a "crump" piece," I think Twitchington very well might be in the Bottom 3 this week.
Courtney and Gev were again the little-couple-who-could with a pair of very good but not great performances. I prefered the first on the strength of its "fabulosity," as I think Michaels noted. In that, they danced a cha-cha to Rihanna's hit "Please Don't Stop The Music."
By a mile though, the best routine of the night came from Joshua and Katee, a Bollywood number from Nakul Dev Mahajan, the first of its kind on SYTYCD I do believe. To be fair, Jessica and Will's contemporary piece was equal to this routine, but the final dance of the night, to "Dhoon Taana" from the movie Om Shanti Om was surprisingly entertaining and stunningly soulful.
"It's amazing how similar to hip-hop it is," Nigel Lythgoe said.
Lythgoe went on to credit the show for including Indian cultural dance as part of the program, noting that he wished "the world would come together with dance rather than what we're doing at the moment."
Amen. And amen. Although I think Lythgoe might take a bit of heat for that comment. I hope not; there's truth in what he spoke regardless of one's political affiliation.
Now, get your Bollywood on:
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