So You Think You Can Dance - S7 - Week 2

oh, never mind... i figured it out. tricky. they tell you click on the quality, and that's when it goes to the pushplay site... but if you bypass that and just select the arrow, it appears to start.

samina said:

oh, never mind... i figured it out. tricky. they tell you click on the quality, and that's when it goes to the pushplay site... but if you bypass that and just select the arrow, it appears to start.

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That is tricky! Thanks for posting how you figured it out!

wonderwoman said:

Alex is amazing and Sonja is a brilliant choreographer. I could understand saying it didn't move you as much as it did others or it just wasn't your taste but it certainly didn't suck. Surely that opinion could have been better articulated.

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Horrible interpretation of the song. Great dancing of what they were given. Sonja has had some brilliant pieces, when she chooses music that suits her choreography style. This song didn't suit her choreography. Waste of a great song and great dancers. And thus, in my opinion, it sucked.

i was quite gobsmacked that the little cutie was axed tonight. thought for sure the decision would be unanymously for the tap dancer to go.

and the mysterious "problem with her feet"... it's her training and the style she dances, hunched over her pelvis. she's not used to aligning and moving dynamically with her pelvis forward, which means she doesn't have the training as yet to rotate from the hip out enough to avoid the pigeon-toed effect. i know it well (and what a big deal it is to correct) in my own body.

anyway... gobsmacked still...

I thought Alex was the best.. only one that made me watch him instead of the "expert" in the style.

I would have thought Adechike should have been in bottom 3 instead of Cristina, eventhough I was not a great fan of her snake interpretation.

I agree that I would have had Melinda go, but I guess they have more contemporary than tap dancers, so they are giving her another opportunity.

A bit of a negative for me was Lauren's Wednesday performance. She danced well, but she was totally focused on the camera/audience and not on Ade. It reminded me of a performance given by a cheerleaders squad.

The two favorites for me were Kent and Alex.

Kent, while not perfect, was channeling professional latin ballroom in spades; the strutting, the facial expressions. This kid is just an absolute joy to watch.

Alex's performance had a powerful emotional impact that surprised me. That seemed to be missing from his Vegas week performances; glad he got his mojo back.

Three girls in the bottom three... starting with 5 girls and 6 guys... this season could turn into males only...

And just me, but the version of the song "Addicted to Love" used for one of the performances pales in comparsion to Robert Palmer's original.

I'm not a fan of Kent as everybody else seem to be.. In the beginning, he seem likeable, now I think he's just playing the personality factor to get votes.. and production/camera are really helping him in that department.

I commend him for really trying to understand the character of chacha and go for it, he did a decent job, but dont think it would not have been that great if it wasn't for Anna.

The tap dancer annoys me. She's cocky and not nearly as talented a dancer as many who didn't get picked.

Alex impressed me. He seemed to be honestly expressing himself.

I guess I'm the oddball who liked the Footloose interpretation.

Wasn't all that impressed with the snake piece, it was okay. I kept wanting to see more of this and that, more stretching, more continuity of movement, etc. That's one dance where I didn't agree with the judge's comments.

I thought Catherine's performance overwhelmed Adechike's in the office dance. He was kind of lost there, and there wasn't as much connection. It could have been awesome, was a great concept, but didn't work out due mostly to Adechike's failure to perform well enough.

Melinda pretty much sucked, but maybe I know too much about ballroom to comfortably watch a ballroom dance and not find faults everywhere. Of course I thought Kent did a much more reasonable job for an out of comfort zone dance. I don't much like Anya, but I think she helped him out a lot.

I'd have been happy with any of the bottom 3 getting kicked out, though I really dislike Melinda the most.

I guess first week right out of the gate, they didn't want to give anyone a kiss of death dance by putting in a standard dance, but I hope there is one next week.

Does anyone else think that Melinda looks a lot like Jennifer Connelly?

She sure does.

Her face reminded me first of Meredith Eaton. But I can see the resemblance to Jennifer Conelly as well.