So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Top 14 – Performance – VIDEO

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Music:

  • Jeanette and Brandon – Cha cha cha – “Hush, Hush, Hush by the Pussycat Dolls – iTunes
  • Kayla and Kupona – Jazz – “Eyes on Fire” by Blue Foundation – iTunes
  • Randi and Evan – Broadway – “Rich Man’s Frug” (2005 Broadway Revival Cast)  from Sweet Charity – iTunes
  • Caitlin and Jason – Pop Jazz – “Creator” by Santogold – iTunes
  • Jeannine and Philip – Hip Hop – “Love Lockdown” by Kanye West – iTunes
  • Karla and Vitolio – Quickstep – “Puttin’ On the Ritz” by Rufus Wainwright - iTunes

Karla and Vitolio may have bought themselves another week with that incredible quickstep.   Caitlin and Jason may be on the chopping block tomorrow night…

Mia Michaels is guest judge tonight, and she says she’s changed her opinion on Brandon since the green mile episode.   It’s all part of the story arc, peeps!

Special announcement coming later on in the show–maybe about the Michael Jackson special. Yay! No it’s about Nigel’s Dizzyfeet Foundation, that will fund dance programs for underprivledges children. Plus,  the 100th episode of SYTYCD will air on July 23rd, featuring the Katie Holms Tyce DiOrio-choreographed  tribute to Judy Garland.

Video packages are about the highs and lows of the competition so far…

Live blog and videos after the JUMP…

Jeanette and Brandon  - Cha Cha by Jean Marc and France – “Hush Hush Hush by  the Pussycat Dolls    - That Jeannette is a firecracker, and  Brandon is  pretty awesome too.   Very  fast, very hot–amazing chemistry.   Nigel says “possibly the best damn cha cha I’ve ever seen on the show ever ever EVER!” Mary says, “Jeanette…those feet, you made them look exciting, and Brandon…I can’t believe it…TWO FIRST CLASS TICKETS on the Hot Tamale Train.”   Both Mary and Nigel marvel at their ability to dance outside of their styles.   Mia says, “The ones that I am toughest on…you have so much ability and potential, I’m not going to be satisfied…you are going to love and hate me on this journey, you are amazing…Jeanette you have been on fire since day one.”   The crowd is going wild, Jean Marc is on his feet. 1-888-836-7601 – VIDEO

Kayla and Kupono – Jazz by Sonya – “Eyes on Fire” by Blue Foundation – The theme is dark–vampires and death!  Sonya is one of my fav choreographers.   The story is dark, strange and freaky,  but I can’t take my eyes of these two–they’re mesmerizing. This newish couple (two weeks)  have really clicked.  Nigel says, “The inspriation was fabulous…Interview with a Vampire, Twighlight…Kupono you  are a new man up there this week  was fabulous…so many good things…everything about it was tremendous.” Mary says, “These two are alive and kicking! Sonya played to your strengths, Kayla has beautiful legs, there was an electric field between the two of you. You’re staying on the Hot Tamale Train.” Mia says, “You guys are so gorgeous together, brilliant costuming…Sonya your best piece ever on the show…Kayla…you comit to everything…your lines are ridiculous, Kupono…every note we gave you, you applied it…you keep getting better…you have a calm power…Mark had it too…it’s so majestic…you’re growing.” 1-888-836-7602  - VIDEO

Randi and Evan – Broadway by Joey Dowling – “Rich Man’s Frug” from Sweet Charity – The choreography was brilliant. I liked this more than the judges did, but I think they’re nitpicking because Broadway is right in Evan’s wheelhouse. Nigel says, “A great homage to Bob Fosse…you’ve got to be careful…the wrists have to be flexible…Evan you did very well this this evening…but you have to bring a little more to the party, but you are still in my Top 10 dancers.” Mary says, “Dancing this great…its easy to go crazy…it was your style, but you did it fairly well…most of the time you got the character…same thing Randi…it could have been a little brighter.”   Mia says, “What was missing…you guys have to take that kind of work to the next level because of your height…Randi, you danced a little heavy…Evan I expected more from you…I want to say Bravo, but good job.”   1-888-836-7603 - VIDEO

Caitlin and Jason – Pop Jazz by Brian Friedman  - “Creator” by Santogold –  They were in the bottom 3 two weeks in a row, they feel the pressure to step it up.   Caitlin is an alien come to earth to procreate with earthling Jason. Alrighty then.   Caitlin has to “wear the pants” in the dance. The judges didn’t like the choreography so much…Brian didn’t look happy.    I  liked it–it was weird, but fun.   Caitlin, in particular, inhabited her character really well. Nigel says, “It was very weird, but you have to comit yourself 100%, but I think you both did that…it was a little weird and crazy at times…” Nigel compared  Caitlin’s costume to a dancing condom “Safety first,” says Cat.   Har. Mary says, “I didn’t think it played to your strengths…it just doesn’t sit right with me. I love the two of you to pieces, I hope you won’t be in trouble.” Mia says, “I think Brian wanted to have fun, take a few risks…don’t like the tinfoil on you…you guys danced it really well.” 1-888-836-7604 - VIDEO

Jeanine and Phillip  - Hip Hop by Napoleon and Tabitha – “Love Lockdown” by Kanye West – The dance represents the experience the kids go through during the course of the  show. Philip and Jeanine will dance together chained at the ankle.  It looks really hard, but they pull it off. Philip finally  gets a chance to shine in his own style, he’s hitting it really hard.   Jeanine is no slouch, either.   Nigel says, “If you guys keep dancing like that you should be dancing for life. Jeanine, I think you are  a fabulous contemporary dancer…you make every style look like your style, Philip you’re hitting it really hard. Terrific.” Mary says, “I thought it was absolutely incredibly creative. You could have fallen at any places in the routine and you didn’t…Philip, some of those chest pops…vibrated right with the music…Jeanine you were crazy good tonight…you were keeping up with him.” Mia says, “I’m a big fan of Nappy Tabs…the only thing is that for me…I found myself getting caught up in the chainography…it becomes a little hard to control and becomes sloppy…great job you guys, congratulations.”     Jeanine says, “We have chains all over the apartment.” Nigel says, “Too much information!” 1-888-836-7605 – VIDEO

Melissa and Ade – Pas De Duex  by Thordal Christensen – “Romeo and Juliet: Prokofiev’s Suite No 1 Op. 64b, 6th Movement”  Orchestre De La Suisse Romande & Armin Jordan – The dance is based on Romeo and Juliet, very slow and tender.  Despite Melissa being a trained  ballerina, this was my  least favorite of all their  routines so far.   Ade wasn’t a match for Melissa on this one.    Nigel says, “Who would have believed we would be doing classical ballet…Melissa that was beautifully danced,  Ade,  your feet could be better, but your carriage was beautiful.”  Nigel boasts that there’s nothing else like SYTYCD on TV with it’s variety of styles.  Mary says, “I just loved it, it was really beautiful, the chemistry was flawless…Melissa it was great to see you in your style, you make it look so easy…you put me in a dreamlike state.” Mia says, “I am so excited to be celebrating classical dance on this show…ballet solidifies technique…I’m so excited…I love that it’s a black and white Romeo and Juliet..it was a fairytale…Melissa you are a true ballerina.” 1-888-836-7606. – VIDEO

Only 7 dancers in a two hour show means it’s time for some filler! A video introduces Nigel’s Dizzyfeet Foundation. The foundation will help  underprivledged kids get dance training. All the choreographers make an appearance, plus Carrie Ann Anaba of Dancing with the Stars and Katie Holmes.   Twitch is there too.   Paula Abdul and Miley Cyrus are also involved. dizzyfeetfoundation.org is the website.

The 23rd of July is the SYTYCD 100th episode.   The Tyce DioOrio Broadway tribute to Judy  Garland featuring Katie Holmes will air that day.   She’s donating her performance fee to the foundation. – VIDEO

Karla and Vitolio – Quickstep by Jean Marc and France  -  ”Puttin on the Ritz” by Rufus Wainwright – Jonathan is in the house!   Karla and Vitolio are a new couple.   Wow, everything about that was awesome. Karla and Vitolio were just flying across the dance floor.   That quick-change (Vitolio ripping Karla’s dress to reveal a new outfit) was sensational. Nigel says, “There was  so many good things about that, loved the choreography, loved the quick change…sometimes the lines took away from the style, but overall it was really entertaining, you’re getting your personality out there.  Mary says,  ”So much for the Kiss of Death dance, you brought it alive, Vitolio you kept in close hold…really well done…young lady, really beautiful out there, congratulations to both of you.” Mia says, “This piece was amazing, he made you, you really did step up…I was surprised…Vitolio you confuse me….at times you’re all over the place…[but tonight] I’m so proud of you.”   “I hope we made it the kiss of joy” says Vitolio.   “You made out with it,” says Mia.   “Karla, you looked scared some of the time, you need to keep your face bright.”  1-888-836-7607 – VIDEO

 
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  • dhunken

    As for the dancers, I am also sick of Randi and Evan being criticized because they’re short. If they felt that way, they shouldn’t have put them in the top 20 or put Evan’s brother through to Las Vegas for next season! Their choreographer was rude and condescending. As a tribute to Fosse, that routine sucked. As choreographed, it didn’t come anywhere near the precision of his.

    I am so with you on your assessment here 100%

  • anna32306

    Why does any reference to vampires suddenly mean it’s Twilight?

    Um….it was a dance about vampires and it was danced to a song on the Twilight soundtrack…that’s enough for me!

  • cookcricket

    Kayla and Pono where real good, Kayla is my pick to win.

    Okay I’ve never watched this before this yr. So only one wins? Not a couple?

  • Mary102

    Okay I’ve never watched this before this yr. So only one wins? Not a couple?

    Yes. When it gets to top 10, the public votes for individual dancers, even though they still dance as couples, and the bottom boy and girl get kicked off, without the judges picking. Then, the top 4 (two guys, two girls) are in the finale, and one by one they’re eliminated during the finale “results” show, until it’s just down to 2, and one of them wins.

  • dhunken

    Dial Idol has Evan and Randi as being safe. I know that it is not the end all but makes me feel better. :-) (Brandon and Janette are safe too)

  • sunchick

    This was an interesting show. One of my favorite couples had the stars aligning for them and they shined, and the other was outdone by subtle manipulation.

    It’s hilarious to me that people are saying they liked the way Evan and Randi danced but hated the choreography. The Choreography was a complete homage to Fosse’ ¦ He does hold the record of 8 tony awards for Choreography.

    Sigh, I feel ya. Especially when there was praise for Tyce’s gradeschool pillow fight last week. Tyce has been bastardizing Fosse for years and it was nice to see someone pay the man proper homage, so I aint hatin on Joey Dowling. The Rich Man’s Frug is a famous, brilliant, revolutionary piece of Fosse choroegraphy from the musical Sweet Charity. When the music started I was so excited, but Randi and Evan, more Randi, really, just didn’t nail the movements, and Randi was way too cutesy, too much like her character last week, instead of aloof. The wrist action is very particular, it’s almost like your hands are detached from your arms and your arms are detatched from your shoulder. Here’s the piece from the movie with Shirley MacClaine: Rich Man’s Frug dance from Sweet Charity. And here’s the stage company from the Fosse tribute: Notice the female lead in particular. When you compare those vids to Evan and Randi’s piece you can see how the performance was lacking, so the judges weren’t BSing. That said, I’m really kinda pissed for Evan. His speciality is Broadway, sure, but not Fosse-esque Broadway. Evan is all about the big Gene Kelly type of athletic dancing and emmoting, the stuff that’s almost vaudevillian, and Fosse is very stylized and especially this piece in particular all about body position and musicality and tiny precise movememts…the flicks of a wrist, the nod of a head. Not to mention the Frug is a piece for a female lead and her supporting cast. Giving the guy his “speciality” and then having it be an homage to the total opposite of what he does best and then calling him on it being his speciality is tricksy depimping at it’s SYTYCD finest, especially when the previous week they did an homage to Gene effing Kelly and Danny Kaye and gave it to…Phillip. Phillip! It’s like saying…Evan I know you love NY Strip. So, here’s a perfect NY Strip….psyche! We gave your NY Strip to someone else and swapped it for filet mignon. Why aren’t you eating it with gusto? Now, filet mignon is amazing, and many people prefer it. Many people would not see why you should complain about filet mignon because it’s all steak to them. But if you are a tried and true NY Strip kinda guy, that’s a little evil. I mean, really show. Really.

    Conversely, Kupono and Kayla and Sonya were so in sync it was magical. How adorable was Pono showing up in a handmade I *heart* Sonya t shirt? I am going to make one. Also I *heart* Wade and I *heart* B Free. Okay, not really, but if I was on SYTYCD I would do it. Anyway, I’m a little worried about America getting it becaue they threw around so many vampire references. I wonder if people were expecting a more literal interpretation of a vampire story and then might be confused, because this was very abstract. Here’s how I saw it…Kayla is torn between life and death in some way, light and darkness, hence the costuming with the black and white for her, and the make up, all of it. Pono has made peace with death, darkness and is trying to bring Kayla around to his line of thinking. I could see the vampire interpretation, bringing someone over and all that. But Kupono could also be an angel of death, the grim reaper, a loved one who has already crossed over, something like that. Brilliantly danced, great choreography, and those two kids have got some chemistry, yes they do! (tm Mary Murphy.) I was impressed that Pono could pull off dark and masculine because he had been accused of being too feminine and quirky in the past. And Kayla, wow.

    One note about BFree’s piece…of all of them, this is the one that I, personally, would have loved to dance. Right up my alley. Also, I love that song. The costuming was a little suspect, but what disappointed me was Caitlin. She was really trying to be fierce, but I wasn’t really getting dangerous or even alien from here. I just don’t think she’s the transformative kind of dancer, though her technique can be very pretty sometimes.

  • makeitstop

    Evan is just getting the Kourtni Lind treatment. It had to happen at some point before the top 10.

  • butte009

    I almsot would have rather seen Kayla or Caitlin do the ballet as it would have been less predictable.

    But if either had pulled it off then it would take the spotlight away from Melissa as THE ballerina. I like Melissa, don’t get me wrong. I’d like to see her do something out of her comfort zone though. Pulling off Hip Hop or Krumping would earn her tons of respect IMO.

    Um’ ¦.it was a dance about vampires and it was danced to a song on the Twilight soundtrack’ ¦that’s enough for me!

    That explains it. Linkin Park is the only group included in the soundtrack that I’ve listened to on a regular basis (I had to look it up). Never heard of the others (except Muse since Adam is supposed to be singing one of their songs). For some reason I thought Flyleaf was on the Soundtrack….. Oh I take that back… I have heard of Collective Soul too…. I think.

  • dhunken

    Ok I watched the bob fosse Sweet charity thing and now I really think Evan nailed it. I also feel the Nasty Choreographer did not explain what she wanted or her vision to the dancers. She was just rude and pretentious. Evan danced it with flare and pizazz. I actually like his take on that style better then the Sweet Charity Dancers. Also I agree with sunchick Evan’s broadway style is more along the lines of Gene Kelly. It almost seemed to me after re watching the whole piece that they had it out for Evan and Randi from the beginning. The Choreographer belittled them, the judges did also (Mary not so much) It was almost staged. Just like the over praising and prior set up with Mia of Brandon. I would have like to see any of the other male dances pull that routine off without looking too feminine or awkward. The routine is really made for a female lead with background male dancers. I only hope Dial Idol is right.

  • lucy

    I do think that the judges go over the top about Kayla, but that doesn’t mean she’s not as good as they say. I think it’s the Adam principle, the judges go ga ga and it makes people not like that person because of that. I liked her and Kupono’s routine, they move well together.

    I think she’s a very good dancer, but she reminds me of Will whathisname from last season (?). They tongue bathed him all the time, too, and, again, he was a very very good technical dancer (maybe even a great one.) But most of the time he just didn’t *project* to me. And Kayla doesn’t project much, either.

    In most of her dances, I have found my mind wandering, which isn’t a good thing. I don’t know what’s missing, but something is, from my perspective anyway.

    And I think they see low voting for her and thus “pimp” her. I don’t vote for her, and don’t care whether she remains on the show or not, but it isn’t because she’s overly pimped. It’s because I think she lacks the “it factor.”

    Now, why AI pushed Adam as much as they did (aside from the very large proportion of the pushing that was because he was just very very good), I have no idea, because he seems to have the “it factor” for everyone — some love the factor and some hate it, but he definitely has something that makes him stand out.

    On the Randi/Evan choreographer: I thought she was a pretty good choreographer (worked well for me as an homage), but as a person she seemed like a real jerk (which could have been editing). So I feel very torn about her. I would love somebody different doing “Broadway” and such on the show because I think that Tyce is usually pretty mediocre at it (not as mediocre as he was on Fame when Debbie Allen brought him in as a supposed late entrant and he had to *sing* … but still). He has had a few moments but most of his stuff, especially his Broadway stuff….way too “meh” for me.

  • sallyas1

    Jeanette and Brandon – Cha Cha – Really fun and sassy. I liked a whole lot

    Kayla and Kupono – Jazz – Fabulous. Totally agree with Mary and the judges – I could feel the chemistry between them even when they were dancing across the stage from each other.

    Randi and Evan – Broadway – I really liked this a whole lot. I rarely like Broadway performances (for some reason they just don’t work for me without the context of the show). But this piece worked very well simply because it didn’t look like part of a show.

    Caitlin and Jason – Pop Jazz – I could not even finish watching it on youtube. Talk about self indulgent nonsense by a choreographer. I would love if we could vote out Brian Friedman after this nonsense. Sadly no, but I think we will see them in the bottom 3.

    Jeanine and Phillip – Hip Hop – I liked the chain idea. And they worked well despite it. I just wish they would have worked more with it. Maybe pull it tighter, make it looser, whatever. More a choreography issue I think. I did like what they did though.

    Melissa and Ade – Pas De Duex – about time we got ballet on the show. But please – give ballet to the ballet dancer? And the fans are supposed to believe that was by chance? It was very good, but I fear they may be in the bottom simply because it is obvious the audience is being played with this dance choice.

    Karla and Vitolio – Quickstep by Jean Marc and France – I liked a lot. Loved the concept with the museum. Really loved the outfit quick change.

    Bottom 3:
    Caitlin and Jason
    Randi and Evan – simply because someone has to be there
    Jeanine and Phillip
    though a surprise pick could be Melissa and Ade

  • cookcricket

    Thanks Mary102, I was wondering how the winner was chosen.

    As far as Randi and Evan go, it wasn’t the choreography I had a problem with, it was the choreographer and the way she handled herself. From what they showed from behind the scenes, she wasn’t explicit in her instruction. It almost seemed as if she could picture in her mind what she wanted, but couldn’t explain it.

  • hcpoirot

    Nigel really want Phillip and Jeanine in top 10. In just 4 weeks, they got hip hop routine twice. And some of the couples have not had hip hop routine yet.

    Can’t get any clearer than that. Phillip have not get any contemporary or jazz routine yet.

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