So You Think You Can Dance - 2 Hour Premiere Tonight!!

Lindsay Live | May 22, 2008 | there are 8 comments 8

Don't forget! Tonight on Fox at 8/7c is the season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance.

Now in it's 4th season and still running strong, So You Think You Can Dance will once again hit the road in search of the country's best dance talent. After call-backs, the top 20 finalists will be chosen to vie for the cash prize of $250,000.

Last season's winner was Sabra Johnson... who will take away the grand prize this time??

You decide! Tune in, vote, and share your thoughts HERE on Danceruniverse.com!

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does anyone actually enjoy these dance reality show? I can never sit through any of them. I really really try. I last 10 minutes tops during any of the programs before I flip the channel. I don't want to watch auditions on TV for entertainment. I hate sitting through them in person. I would rather watch a reality dance show of the drama that happens backstage of a real show. For all of you that haven't yet been in a real huge show:  The real entertainment is the stuff you never see or hear about.

So turn off the TV and go do a plie.

user icon Matthew Neff | May 22, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

I like THIS show

Although many dance reality shows are fluff, I've got to say that "So You Think You Can Dance" comes closest to demonstrating the diversity of styles that dance has to offer. No TV program can ever truly exemplify what goes on in the professional dance world. But, the talent on SYTYCD is pretty impressive, and if it gets a few more couch potatoes in America talking about chaines and grand jetes, then I'm all for it!

user icon Wendy Garofoli | May 23, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

Cool. I respect that but.......

I just don't think that the audience is a seeing a real representation of the dance community on SYTYCD.  It's turned into competition kids, hip hoppers, and ballroom kids. Over the past few seasons on the show the genre pool has gotten smaller and smaller. I want to see some real technicians that train to perform because that's all they know.

There have been some talented people. The show should be PACKED with super talented people. The show has started to become too incestuous with family members, friends, and the same studios getting free advertisement.

I want Twyla Tharp to be a guest and create a piece with some hip hop dancers. I want to see Mark Morris take some competition kids and create something different. I want to see Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Desmond Richardson create something challenging with the ballroom kids. I can't sit through anymore of Mia's work on the show. She great, innovator, blah, blah, blah. I just think if you eat lobster everyday then you start to get bored of it.  P.S. I am allergic to shellfish.

The title of the show asks the dancer a question. Being a trained techincal dancer, I would want to step into that show not knowing the answer to question. If they keep using the same small pool of L.A. choreographers then they should just rename the show, "So You Want To Be On TV?"  The contestants are quite aware of what to expect on the show. There is this fake rehearsed facial expression I hate seeing when I am judging. I see it more and more with these FOX brand robots.

user icon Matthew Neff | May 23, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

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Hollywood Dance Debate

Matthew, you might find this funny:

http://entimg.msn.com/i/ExperienceData/p1-9/us/x.htm?sh=thebigdebateseason3&ep=master&g=c73be251-cfaf-4d17-959c-836f6155b2df&GT1=28018

user icon Lindsay Live | May 30, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

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pia

dancing with wolves with real dancing wolves hosted by pia. That was hilarious

user icon Matthew Neff | Jun 06, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

I want my Dance on TV

I love tv a lot. I love reality too much. I love that I can watch dance "reality" (the good the bad and the ugly) on tv. I too frequently disagree with producer's choices in dancers, judges, hosts, styling, choreography and just about anything and everything; though I cannot peel my eyes away. (note: I do not watch the ballroom focused shows.....their appeal alludes me).

So this season of SYTYCD I kept a close eye on the pool of candidates from the get go. I have also been following up some of my theories by cross referencing other sources......who are these dancers? The answers are there if you look hard enough. It seems the show pins them as virtuosos in one style or another.......further research reveals the contrary. So before you conclude that the top 20 is full of comp kids, ranked ballroom dancers and hip hop(pers?).....think again.

I love how a dancer will come on the show and they are labeled immediately....makes for good tv. Then they unveil their "hidden" talent in other disciplines.....OMG all the sudden POW "Cinderella story" they are great at other things too!!! WOW! LOL. How many real dancers are one trick ponies? I've pegged a couple of mislabeled kids so far in the top 20 so I cannot wait for the show to illustrate how "powerful" it is in "transforming" these dancers (I am sure there are a couple of other dark horses with less obvious bios). All this smoke and mirrors stuff is what really thrills me about reality/competition shows.

Am I bored with the judges and the choreography? Absolutely!!!! (Tabitha and Napeoleon were a breath of fresh air......and Debbie Allen had me in stitches). Do I really want to see Mark Morris tear someone a new one? Definitely (why is he NOT a judge on something?).

I have been hearing through the grapevine that the SYTYCD producers are making their rounds, at least to some degree, to industry events, but until they get some true well-rounded (key) industry insiders to help with every aspect of what they do, we (the dance community) will still be sitting here wincing, wondering and scratching our heads. All the while, yes, Jane and John America will go on about this or that run-of-the-mill dancer.......or how "contemporary" "contemporary choreography" is.

All in all I am for dance on tv. No matter how bad or misrepresented the community truly is. I see the SYTYCD producers trying and I give them a half a kudo for that. As an MTV generation kid, I know how instrumental the mass media was in driving me towards pursuing the art......think about how terrible most of the dancing was in those videos....ack! I never ended up doing the bobby brown or roger rabbit professionally anyway and these kids won't end up doing Disco partnering either. If it turns a few kids on to dancing, I am way cool with it!

ps:

Here are my top 7 picks....(I have been disappointed with the girls to far)

comfort-fedoke
mark-kanemura
joshua-allen
chris-jarosz
marquis-cunningham
william-wingfield
twitch

Katie Farhat Associate Publisher Dancer Publishing O: (732) 988-0714 C: (732) 768-2791 F: (646) 827-3879 user icon Katie Farhat | Jun 11, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

Just Enjoy The Show and the Raw Talent!

Hey all you high techno dancers out there, please temper your technical eye and just enjoy the show. I appreciate what Katie said about being grateful that the art form is getting the exposure. Through that medium, the GIFTED, "not trained yet" dancers will develop even more of an appeal to invest themselves into dance with a kind of show like this. Being a gifted dancer with some training myself, I can appreciate all that this kind of show offers to people who, like me, couldn't afford a "dance studio" when the gift was ripening, but now has an outlet to let the world see what is naturally there, i.e. Joshua Allen and Twitch. Yes, they are hip hop(pers?) as some one has stressed earlier, but haven't they handled the other genres of this art form just as well as someone who's been trained for years? Yeah, that's gift! So please don't hate, just APPRECIATE!
By the way, the person who I thought would've been dancing in the finale tonight was a highly technical dancer. I believe he was the best and that was WILL. But where is he? We know that trained dancers can dance. They better- with all those years of training? Yeah, but how about someone who hasn't been trained but yet gifted? Gifted enough to perform what you've been doing for years in, often time, one week. Ok.
Moving on.......My guess, the winner.......Joshua Allen!

user icon pricecee | Aug 06, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

YAY Joshua!!!

The dude pulled through!!!! He was one of my picks early on (and actually one of the two that I believed were "mis labeled" by the producers).

After Will and the other technically amazing guy were voted off I kind of tuned out til the end. Based on Joshua's performance on the show, the guy is some sort of dancing freak of nature. Since the beginning I would marvel at his ability to adapt.

If he really has had no other training (which I do still question) he is a lucky and very gifted young man. Either way, the guy is talented and I for one, was very pleased with the outcome! (would have been happy if Twitch took it too......he just has a vibe that I think is really positive :)

Katie Farhat Associate Publisher Dancer Publishing O: (732) 988-0714 C: (732) 768-2791 F: (646) 827-3879 user icon Katie Farhat | Aug 08, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

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