Monumental Stillness

Wendy Garofoli | Jul 03, 2008 | there are 2 comments 2
Last week, Katee and Joshua danced the samba. This week, they rocked with Mia Michaels' contemporary.

Last week, Katee and Joshua danced the samba. This week, they rocked with Mia Michaels' contemporary.

While I won't be doing the SYTYCD Play By Play until tomorrow evening, I wanted to make one comment on Katee and Joshua's Mia Michaels' piece. As Nigel would say: Brilliant. I'm not sure the judges did it justice. They certainly commended the dancers for giving commanding performances, but to me, Katee and Joshua did much more than that. They committed one hundred percent to Michaels' sometimes scary, sometimes dangerous choreography. When Katee ran across the stage with Joshua holding her, it looked surreal...as if she were a superhero able to dash from place to place on hyper speed.

I was hoping Mary Murphy wouldn't scream, only because it would undermine the power of the dance. Thankfully, she didn't. Instead, she surprised me by coming up with the most intuitive critique of the night. She said that one of the best moments of the dance...when Katee and Joshua were simply walking forward...created a "monumental stillness." Couldn't say it better.

What did you all think? What was your favorite dance of the evening?

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loved it!

I LOVED both the Mia Micheals pieces last night - both this one and the mattress one were the most powerful and wholly entertaining of the night.
Hello - can we also talk about my new fave couple Kherington & Twitch! I actually really liked their passe double - and that John Mayer piece was just a beautiful piece of story telling. I too am glad Mary Murphy didn't scream -  she's so shrill I feel as though sitting through her critique is the price the viewer has to pay for watching all the great dancing on the show. Can we please replace her before she becomes the next Paula Abdul? American Idol has become more about the judges than the contestants and I would hate to see that happen to this show.

user icon Lizzie Miller | Jul 03, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

Agreed

MM is definitely out of control. My fiance was in the room while she was "talking," if you'll call it that, and he said, "Oh my God, make it stop!"

user icon Wendy Garofoli | Jul 07, 2008 | rated none by 0 others

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