So, tonight was it. The last night of the competition. SYTYCD4 is pretty much over. That is, if you don't count tomorrow night, when we find out who wins. Sorry I didn't live blog it tonight; I got home just in time to microwave a Boca burger for dinner as fast as possible and run to the TV to take notes.
Courtney, Twitch, Katee, and Josh. The T4. This should be awesome. Let's go.
First up is a NappyTabs hip hop for Courtney and Twitch. This one's about a bat poo crazt girlfriend who chases her boyfriend to the clubs and throws a fit. The song: Church by T-Pain. I really like Courtney in hip hop. She pulls it off SO well for a contemporary dancer.
This dance isn't really doing anything for me. I generally find Napoleon and Tabitha's choreography boring and over-dramatic. This sort of fit in with that theme, although the dancers did well with the mediocrity they were given. It wasn't too good, IMO.
Mandy says: Awesome, way to start the evening, great character, Twitch's character portrayal was hysterical.
Mary says: 1 2 punch YEAH... SEToidhgwEPgndisogASRJwiogSghi'eqifoAht!!!! What! Cotton candy! ... tough... WOOO!
Nigel says: WOOOOOO! Why do choreographers always give Twitch a deranged girlfriend? The character and musicality were great.
Courtney's solo and interview are next. Her family talks like the Sopranos (she has a lot more of a NJ accent here than I had ever noticed). She knows she's not the best dancer, but she can grow as a person and a dancer and bring something different to the show. She has a boyfriend named Bret... Her favorite routine was the Sonya Tayeh jazz routine she did for the T8.
Her song is They Weren't There by Missy Higgins. I really love her onstage. The song is awesome, her choreography, costume, and everything else rock. She COULD win. I dearly hope that this is her tour solo. My guess is that she tours with NYCDA as an assistant like Jaimie/Sabra/Alison for this season. She seems like the type that would have gone there as a kid.
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Wade. Is. Back. WOOT! This time, he's choreographing a contemporary jazz number for Katee and Josh. Of course these two get the good choreography. The song: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer. This piece was about how love is hard, but is the best thing to fight for in life. It is an open and honest moment after a blowout fight.
Let me say, Wade looks sort of different and a lot creepy. Is it the beard?
I'm a huge fan of only using one camera the entire time and not having 87 different cuts in the middle of the routine. Yeah, lighting designers! I love you, Wade. This routine is AWESOME. Amazing. Great.It's more contemporary ballet-ish than I would've expected, but an awesome blend of flowing lyrical type movement and spazzy jerky crazy Wade-ish stuff. I expected more spazz jazz, less lyrical, but I actually liked this better.
This routine was too short.
Mandy says: Beautiful. It's so nice to have Wade back. Katee was awesome even before the dancing started when she was just standing there breathing. It was beautiful and honest.
Mary says: Beautiful, loves the two of them dancing together. Amazing routine. So happy their characters made it and didn't walk away at the end.
Nigel says: It was great partially because it was stripped down to raw and honest emotion. Fantastic dance. Josh has the uncontrolled control of an untrained dancer. They are two of the best dancers ever on the show.
Courtney and Katee. Broadway. Tyce DiOrio.Meh. Remember SYTYCD2's Hey Big Spender? Not that great. Neither was this, but once again, they did well with what they were given. The song: The Trolley Song. I'm not yet sure of the artist.
Very girly girl, complete with parasols and dresses that look like can can girls meet French maids meet something with a tail. There's not too much to this dance. It's cutsie, its flouncy, its girly, its fun, but other than like one leap, they don't really DO anything. They pulled it off ok though.
Mandy says: Cute and adorable. Very "Old Hollywood". It moved well on stage.
Mary says: Dancing with umbrellas is seriously hard. It looked effortless and they pulled it off.
Nigel says: It's lovely to see the girls dancing as girls. Courtney doesn't finish every step as fully as Katee who has an extra little bit to her dancing.
Twitch's solo/interview.
His name came from dancing all the time in completely inappropriate places. For him, it was either dancing or military to make ends meet without working a 9-5 office job. It caught him by surprise when Kherrington was booted. His favorite dance was the Viennese Waltz that Jean Marc choreographed for/about his disabled daughter. He feels that putting as much in to every routine is what he can do to give back to that art form that has done so much for him.
The song: It Was All In Your Mind by Wade Robson. Twitch is SO much better when he just does his thing and lets his personality show through than when he TRIES too hard to be uirky and then distracts himself from the actual dancing.
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So now Josh and Twitch have this routine in a style that they're either calling Russian Trepak or Russian Street Dancing. The choreographer: Yuri Nelzine. The song: Marzipan Dance from The Nutcracker Suite.
Apparently Josh and Twitch have some sort of rivalry going on. I wasn't aware of this. They're "battling it out" in this dance. These choreographers are seriously skeeving me out. I don't know what, but they have some really creepy vibe.
The first thing I get from this dance: ghetto Vaganova. Not good. This... sucks. They're very good at the huge jumps and leaps, but overall, the routine and choreography and style weren't good and were a really bad choice by the producers for the finale. This wasn't up to par with the Dorktastic hip hop or Mia's dueling princes piece.
Josh does freaking awesome 540's for a semi-untrained dancer. No, he does awesome 540's for a professional ballet dancer, which he definitely is not. His a la seconde fouettes were ah-mazing, too.
I don't know if this was the intent of the choreography, but even when they were doing the same steps at relatively the same time, the two dancers were not at all together.
Mandy says: No offense to the girls, but there's nothing better than two men on stage doing crazy stuff. Twitch got stuck with all the floor work. Josh claims that this is because he jumps higher. They have a brief jump off.
Mary says: Fabulous entertainment. This is the first year with two hip hop dancers in the T4. WoihgewWItejhioghnSYIHewilht!!!... WOOOOO!
Nigel says: He was expecting them to be good at this. They're street dancers, this is a street dance. Josh's elevation is amazing. This piece will be spoken about for years.
I am super sore and tired. I have 9 hour days at the studio this week and a mini-show the day after tomorrow. I promise I'll finish writing my recap tomorrow, but I really need the sleep right now. Check back soon for Part 2!
Stay on your toes,
Selly
Courtney, Twitch, Katee, and Josh. The T4. This should be awesome. Let's go.
First up is a NappyTabs hip hop for Courtney and Twitch. This one's about a bat poo crazt girlfriend who chases her boyfriend to the clubs and throws a fit. The song: Church by T-Pain. I really like Courtney in hip hop. She pulls it off SO well for a contemporary dancer.
This dance isn't really doing anything for me. I generally find Napoleon and Tabitha's choreography boring and over-dramatic. This sort of fit in with that theme, although the dancers did well with the mediocrity they were given. It wasn't too good, IMO.
Mandy says: Awesome, way to start the evening, great character, Twitch's character portrayal was hysterical.
Mary says: 1 2 punch YEAH... SEToidhgwEPgndisogASRJwiogSghi'eqifoAht!!!! What! Cotton candy! ... tough... WOOO!
Nigel says: WOOOOOO! Why do choreographers always give Twitch a deranged girlfriend? The character and musicality were great.
Courtney's solo and interview are next. Her family talks like the Sopranos (she has a lot more of a NJ accent here than I had ever noticed). She knows she's not the best dancer, but she can grow as a person and a dancer and bring something different to the show. She has a boyfriend named Bret... Her favorite routine was the Sonya Tayeh jazz routine she did for the T8.
Her song is They Weren't There by Missy Higgins. I really love her onstage. The song is awesome, her choreography, costume, and everything else rock. She COULD win. I dearly hope that this is her tour solo. My guess is that she tours with NYCDA as an assistant like Jaimie/Sabra/Alison for this season. She seems like the type that would have gone there as a kid.
1-888-836-7601
Wade. Is. Back. WOOT! This time, he's choreographing a contemporary jazz number for Katee and Josh. Of course these two get the good choreography. The song: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer. This piece was about how love is hard, but is the best thing to fight for in life. It is an open and honest moment after a blowout fight.
Let me say, Wade looks sort of different and a lot creepy. Is it the beard?
I'm a huge fan of only using one camera the entire time and not having 87 different cuts in the middle of the routine. Yeah, lighting designers! I love you, Wade. This routine is AWESOME. Amazing. Great.It's more contemporary ballet-ish than I would've expected, but an awesome blend of flowing lyrical type movement and spazzy jerky crazy Wade-ish stuff. I expected more spazz jazz, less lyrical, but I actually liked this better.
This routine was too short.
Mandy says: Beautiful. It's so nice to have Wade back. Katee was awesome even before the dancing started when she was just standing there breathing. It was beautiful and honest.
Mary says: Beautiful, loves the two of them dancing together. Amazing routine. So happy their characters made it and didn't walk away at the end.
Nigel says: It was great partially because it was stripped down to raw and honest emotion. Fantastic dance. Josh has the uncontrolled control of an untrained dancer. They are two of the best dancers ever on the show.
Courtney and Katee. Broadway. Tyce DiOrio.Meh. Remember SYTYCD2's Hey Big Spender? Not that great. Neither was this, but once again, they did well with what they were given. The song: The Trolley Song. I'm not yet sure of the artist.
Very girly girl, complete with parasols and dresses that look like can can girls meet French maids meet something with a tail. There's not too much to this dance. It's cutsie, its flouncy, its girly, its fun, but other than like one leap, they don't really DO anything. They pulled it off ok though.
Mandy says: Cute and adorable. Very "Old Hollywood". It moved well on stage.
Mary says: Dancing with umbrellas is seriously hard. It looked effortless and they pulled it off.
Nigel says: It's lovely to see the girls dancing as girls. Courtney doesn't finish every step as fully as Katee who has an extra little bit to her dancing.
Twitch's solo/interview.
His name came from dancing all the time in completely inappropriate places. For him, it was either dancing or military to make ends meet without working a 9-5 office job. It caught him by surprise when Kherrington was booted. His favorite dance was the Viennese Waltz that Jean Marc choreographed for/about his disabled daughter. He feels that putting as much in to every routine is what he can do to give back to that art form that has done so much for him.
The song: It Was All In Your Mind by Wade Robson. Twitch is SO much better when he just does his thing and lets his personality show through than when he TRIES too hard to be uirky and then distracts himself from the actual dancing.
1-888-836-7602
So now Josh and Twitch have this routine in a style that they're either calling Russian Trepak or Russian Street Dancing. The choreographer: Yuri Nelzine. The song: Marzipan Dance from The Nutcracker Suite.
Apparently Josh and Twitch have some sort of rivalry going on. I wasn't aware of this. They're "battling it out" in this dance. These choreographers are seriously skeeving me out. I don't know what, but they have some really creepy vibe.
The first thing I get from this dance: ghetto Vaganova. Not good. This... sucks. They're very good at the huge jumps and leaps, but overall, the routine and choreography and style weren't good and were a really bad choice by the producers for the finale. This wasn't up to par with the Dorktastic hip hop or Mia's dueling princes piece.
Josh does freaking awesome 540's for a semi-untrained dancer. No, he does awesome 540's for a professional ballet dancer, which he definitely is not. His a la seconde fouettes were ah-mazing, too.
I don't know if this was the intent of the choreography, but even when they were doing the same steps at relatively the same time, the two dancers were not at all together.
Mandy says: No offense to the girls, but there's nothing better than two men on stage doing crazy stuff. Twitch got stuck with all the floor work. Josh claims that this is because he jumps higher. They have a brief jump off.
Mary says: Fabulous entertainment. This is the first year with two hip hop dancers in the T4. WoihgewWItejhioghnSYIHewilht!!!... WOOOOO!
Nigel says: He was expecting them to be good at this. They're street dancers, this is a street dance. Josh's elevation is amazing. This piece will be spoken about for years.
I am super sore and tired. I have 9 hour days at the studio this week and a mini-show the day after tomorrow. I promise I'll finish writing my recap tomorrow, but I really need the sleep right now. Check back soon for Part 2!
Selly