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So You Think You Can Dance: Asuka Kondoh And Jonathan Platero’s Exit Interviews
June 29, 2009 11:30 AM by Britteny Elrick
As predicted by judge Nigel Lythgoe, Jonathan Platero was in the bottom three last week. Unfortunately, Jonathan and fellow contestant Asuka Kondoh were both eliminated from So You Think You Can Dance. Keep readingto find out whatthey saidin their exit interviews…
“Nobody wants to think that they’re going to get eliminated, but I definitely kind of figured I was going to be in the bottom three — especially with him saying that,” Platero told Reality TV World last Friday.Understandably,Jonathan wasn’t very happy about theprediction that Nigel madeafter Wednesday night’s performance.
“It hurt a little bit for him to say that. I didn’t think he was going to be as tough as he was,” Platero continued. “It was a tough style for me. So I couldn’t blame him.” Platero and Asuka Kondoh were both eliminated from So You Think You Can Dance on last Thursday night’s live results show.
“Being on the show I kind of learned to accept things as they come along and just not expect anything in general,” Kondoh told Reality TV World. “I just took it. I wasn’t surprised. It could have been anyone of us. I was just trying to accept the fact that if it’s me then it’s me and I can’t fight it anymore.”
“I think everything was just against what I normally want to do as a Latin ballroom dancer — lots of level changes, I was trying to dance in jazz shoes for once, being bent-kneed, being lifted — everything was just completely not what I’m used to doing,” she explained to reporters. “I thought every week was a challenge to me. I never got my own style. I just tried the best I could.”
“You’re just trying to perform for your life,” Jonathan added. “There’s just so much to think about, especially being a ballroom dancer. There’s only so much you can do with it,” said Platero about his solo. “So really the only dynamics that I can put into my solo is kind of incorporate a mix of some salsa and acrobatics to try to help me save my life like I did [my first time in the bottom three in Week 1].”
Kondoh agreed with Jonathan on the solo. “I only have 30 seconds, so if it looked a little bit strange I guess it’s probably because I didn’t have a partner,” she explained. “So the whole time I was imagining that I was holding my partner’s hand. So it is a partner dance and I was trying the best I could in the 30 seconds.”
As for the future, Jonathan said, “I always loved doing acrobatics so I definitely want to still pursue that. I think that would be amazing.Whether it falls into acrobatics or dancing — or even if it’s something where I can do both of them — I don’t think it would be a decision. I think I would choose both of them.”
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