Good Enough

These past few weeks I have been living and breathing for this show!

Wednesday can’t come soon enough and when it’s over I dread the Thursday elimination show.

I’m speaking about So You Think You Can Dance and I say it with this cool hip-hop vibe to my voice. I love this show more than any other reality TV show I’ve encountered! I could blame this on the fact that I was a dancer in my former life, but I don’t think that has anything to do with it. People of all walks of life have fallen in love with this show. I think it’s because there is real talent there. You don’t need to be a dancer to recognize the feelings a good one inspires, and I’m covered in goose pimples when I every time I watch.

12 dancers are left this week…12 extremely talented dancers.

Let me tell you that one of the biggest “wow” indicators to me is how many times I rewind the dance on my DVR. One dance last week I have now seen at least 7 times…but I digress…let’s get down to tonight’s show.

To my surprise and delight the show opened with my favorite couple…Sabra and Dominic…I’ll now pause for dramatic effect. They just do it for me! Every single time! He’s a B-boy, she’s an ex cheerleader turned dancer for the past four years. They make it look so easy and fun, and you want to believe they’re together in real life. That’s how much chemistry they have on stage. Shane Sparks said it in a way only he could…”You take a hot girl, a hot boy, a hot song, and hot choreography, you got a hot show!” They make the show hot. Tonight they pulled the jive. I was a little nervous for them, but like every other week they were adorable and did not disappoint.

Next came Jaimie and Hok. They are not my favorite couple. I can’t deny her skill and grace and beauty on-stage, but she strikes me as an airhead on her candid clips. Hok is another story. He seems like a sweet intelligent guy, but dancing wise, he’s hard for me to watch. I just don’t enjoy him. They performed a Broadway number to Mr. Bojangles…the judges weren’t to favorable in what they had to say. 

Pasha and Sara…Pasha, Pasha, Pasha…every woman I talk to about him swoons. Maybe we can just sense what a terrific dancing partner he would be. He can take Patrick Swayze’s roll on the next Dirty Dancing. To me he’s sexy enough. Sara is an athlete and is so connected with her body, I think she could be any type of athlete she wanted to be. Lucky for us she chose to dance because she is so fun to watch. Their’s was my favorite piece of the night. Mandy Moore choreographed a number to Body Language by Queen. I thought I was watching an 80’s video. I rewound this number a few times.

Neil and Lauren, while they haven’t done anything fantastic I can’t help rooting for them. Maybe it’s because Neil is so darn good looking. Not in a Pasha sort of way, but in a more obvious Brad Pitt All-American type of look. He did blow me away in his hip hop routine, but she didn’t. Maybe it’s their chemistry. I think they’re both talented, they’re just late bloomers. Tonight they had Mia Micheals for they’re choreographer, and in doing so landed the SICKEST song on the show this evening. “Let the drummer kick” by Citizen Cope. I know I’m downloading it off the Internet and I think you should check it out as well. It’s the only song that got my husband off his chair in the office and over to the TV. Yeah, it was that cool. The choreography wasn’t my favorite from Mia, but even at her worst she’s amazing.

I did not want to like Danny and Anya…as cute as she is, and as well as he moves they haven’t connected with me. Tonight they made me smile with their Foxtrot. It was beautiful and fluid, classy and fun. I loved it and thought is was their best number to date.

Lastly, poor Kameron and Lacey did the worst hip-hop number that I have seen so far. Lacey can dance, and so can he but I’m starting to think they started off on to high a note at the beginning of the season. They danced a Mia Micheals number that was mind-blowing! Maybe they had nowhere to go but to slowly start descending to the bottom? The number was good enough that it’s saved them from the bottom three through four shows. I have an inkling they won’t be so lucky tomorrow night.

My predictions for bottom three? Jaimie and Hok…Lacey and Kameron, and because I have to pick a third Neil and Lauren. If I had to pick on to go home from each, I think Hok’s been lucky and had a great run, but I think his luck with the judges is running out. With the girls, it’s really extremely difficult I don’t know if I can even guess? I’ll have to see who can truly dance for their life!
 

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