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So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Begins in New York And Denver

May 21, 2009 07:33:52 by DA Southern

So You Think You Can Dance, Dance, Dance…the exciting Fox dance show that makes the Dancing With the Stars, Stars look like rank amateurs, is back for Season 5 with the auditions taking us to New York, Miami, LA, Denver, Memphis, and Seattle, and, of course, ending up in Vegas for the top spots nailed down. Tonight Denver & New York are the start of the fun and, of course, just like in Idol, you will have some who really do think they can dance, but can’t.

The fun starts off in New York and it is always great to see Cat Deeley for the first time of the season, and the second and third… The most excellent part of SYRYCD is seeing all of the dancers from previous seasons helping with choreography and this season is no different as we see Lauren Gottlieb from Season 3 helping with the choreography.

It seems as if dancers come and go in a blur but several interesting ones stand out fairly quickly in Maksim Kapitannikov and Nobuya Nagahama. Maksum, who danced with Fayina from Season 3, earned a pretty decent comment from Nigel and Mary and sent him to Choreography. Nobuya was a hip-hop popper, locker,whatever,and earned himself a chance in choreography as well, but Nigel was unsure if he had what it took to move on. However, both proved in choreography that they had what it took and moved on to Vegas.

Arielle Taylor went to Vegas in season 3 when she was still in high school and Nigel hoped she would not contain herself, and, boy, did she let loose. She got the golden ticket and was headed to Vegas.

The first scream for the season form Mary came when Mina Estrina and Igor Zabrodin did Latin ballroom dancing with a secret trick at the end, in which Igor spun Mina around in circles for, oh, let’s just say I was dizzy watching them. Unfortunately, the spinning must have affected Mina as she did not pass choreography but partner Igor did. We also saw hip-hop dancer, Chimezie Nwosu, squeeze through choreography as well.

A rather unique act finished up New York as far as golden tickets when Kellen Stancil came out dancing with an umbrella. While not a fan of props, Nigel seemed intrigued and of course there was a story to go along with the umbrella when Stancil said it represented his aunt, who he recently lost. The story was good enough to get his golden ticket to Vegas and the judges were off to Denver joined in the judging by Sonya Tayeh.

Denver’s first “I’m going to do what ever it takes to win” story comes from Kayla Radomski who lives with her grandparents so she can save money to take expensive dance lessons. Nigel was impressed and Mary and Sonya agreed and Kayla can now take her grandpa to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory with her Golden Ticket,Sorry, wrong show, I mean, she is going to Vegas.

In what was one of the most interesting routines I have ever seen, same sex ballroom dancing partners, Mitchel, who says he’s straight, and Misha who is gay but used to have a female dancing partner, were performing together. Well things were just going on just fab-u-lous-ly until the men fell on each other. Hey, maybe it was part of the routine! Anyway Nigel booted them to choreography to see how well they performed with women, and evidently not well enough as the both failed to make the grade.

The next interesting dancers were Elias Holloway who was popping with his younger brother, who, unfortunately, is not old enough to be on the show yet. Nigel loved them as did Mary and Sonya and off Elias went to choreography, which is pretty standard fare for most poppers as they sometime have trouble in the transition to partner dancing.

Towards the end of the Denver experience, a couple of dancers from last season impressed in a big way; Natalie Reed, who was cut on the final day of Vegas, but you might remember the controversy when her roommate, Katee Shean advanced in a last minute controversy.

As well as Natalie danced this year, Vegas will probably not contain her as we will probably see her in the top bracket and another cut-on-the-last-day person, Brandon Bryant, impressed so much that Mary was in tears after his performance and, unless something drastic happens in Vegas, he is another one to watch.

It is always great to see dancers come back better than before and impress the judges as they did and the young popper, Elias? Well, he didn’t have the skills to transition to the next stage and was sent popping, I mean, packing.

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