So You Think You Can Dance - S7 - Week 6

SPOILERS for tonight's episode.

Source: http://www.sytycdism.com/2010/07/14/spoilers-sytycd7-top-7-performances/#cut-1

There really isn’t a lot of information under this cut, but we thought we’d share it anyways!
Status: Super duper incomplete!

General spoilers:
- Louis van Amstel has two pieces this week.
- Dmitry Chaplin (S2) choreographed a rumba this week.
Robert & Allison – Contemporary – Travis Wall
Robert & Ashley
Kent & Neil – Jazz or Broadway – Tyce Diorio
Kent & Adéchiké
Jose & Courtney – Broadway – Joey Dowling
Jose & Dominic – Hip Hop – NappyTabs

Beto said:

SPOILERS for tonight's episode.

Source: http://www.sytycdism.com/2010/07/14/spoilers-sytycd7-top-7-performances/#cut-1

There really isn’t a lot of information under this cut, but we thought we’d share it anyways!
Status: Super duper incomplete!

General spoilers:
- Louis van Amstel has two pieces this week.
- Dmitry Chaplin (S2) choreographed a rumba this week.
Robert & Allison – Contemporary – Travis Wall
Robert & Ashley
Kent & Neil – Jazz or Broadway – Tyce Diorio
Kent & Adéchiké
Jose & Courtney – Broadway – Joey Dowling
Jose & Dominic – Hip Hop – NappyTabs

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I'm going to have to go back and watch the show....I only saw one Louis number and no rumba....must've missed something (I did record it and watch it after the fact, so maybe I accidentally fast-forwarded thru something? hmmm)

Loved Robert and Allison doing Travis's routine which was a tribute to his mom. Allison is a fabulous dancer and Travis is a great choreographer. Also liked the Mandy Moore piece that was described as happy/quirky (the one about the shoes). Other than that, nothing else stood out for me.

Based on the preview, things were beginning to look quite repetitive.
After a recent trip to Hawaii it was r e f r e s h i n g to see Tahitian dance!
It was also r e f r e s h i n g to hear Nigel say he didn't know anything about it.

(Odd that the filters would asterick r e f r e s h i n g!)

IMHO... either chike or jose should leave tonight... lessee what happens...

I thought Achédiké (?) held his own in his salsa with Anya. I was actually quite surprised that he did as well as he did. This was a very difficult routine (LA competition style), especially for someone who has not danced salsa before. Well, salsa is definitely not Anya's style, either, that was obvious, Christina or Jeannette woudl have looked better in this routine, although I LOVE Anya! I never like the salsa or mambo routines on SYTYCD or DWTS but thought that this one was one of the better ones. Looked like Anya had a hard landing on her butt, though... All those acrobatics with someone who is a salsa beginner must have scared her...

Loved the Eddie Palmieri song!!!

I enjoyed the Tahitian routine, especially Marc. He is one of my favorite All Stars!!! Also enjoyed Billy's jive but cannot judge if it was danced well technically.

Missed Alex!!!!

i agree, i think chike had his best night of dancing to date last night. i don't generally care for anya, tho. she just tends to look so... sloppy... to me. her legs... like there's a disconnect or a heaviness. at least when she's doing latin.

but that salsa choreo was crayzee!

Loved Robert & Allison's routine last night. Also liked Kent & Neil's.

Regarding the salsa, eh. You can't teach a good basic step and competition level salsa to an absolute beginner in 5 hours of training. It was rushed and choppy.

If Ashley can dance her solo tonight then I think Jose will be going home. Him or Adechike.

TVGuide posted an article about Jose and the judges' favoritism. For the first time, I'm seriously annoyed by something that Adam Shankman said as it's the complete opposite of what SYTYCD is supposed to be.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Dance-B-Boy-1020583.aspx

What did Adam say? I ff'ed judge's comments....

Yanou said:

What did Adam say? I ff'ed judge's comments....

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He didn't say it on the show. His comments are in the TVGuide link above.

I actually agree with the TVGuide commenter who said that the b-boy thing may have backfired if viewers are comparing Jose to Dominic. I wasn't really impressed with either of his routines last night. I have definitely been impressed with him this season, and I'm glad they chose him as a finalist, but at this point it wouldn't be right for him to stay any longer. (Assuming Ashley does not have to drop out tonight...)

Steve Pastor said:

Based on the preview, things were beginning to look quite repetitive.
After a recent trip to Hawaii it was r e f r e s h i n g to see Tahitian dance!
It was also r e f r e s h i n g to hear Nigel say he didn't know anything about it.

(Odd that the filters would asterick r e f r e s h i n g!)

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The tahitian dance was very neat (and I do love watching Mark dance). It just seems silly to put something on that they dont even know enough about to critique, but then again that would fit so many of the genres they feature on the show anyway that they pretend to know about but know very little. I guess at least he was honest vs pretending to know about techinique in ballroom and bollywood! lol.

samina: Her technique and style might not be great or be lacking something, idk, but I think what I like about Anya is that she is not tee-tiny but she is always super hot when she dances and always either intimidates the guys or makes them look like little boys. Things I could never do and thus from me she requires quite a bit of admiration. lol!

Major crush on Anya.

Anya is that she is not tee-tiny but she is always super hot when she dances and always either intimidates the guys or makes them look like little boys.

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She reminds me of someone I dance with, mostly the

intimidates the guys or makes them look like little boys

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part, but some of the rest of it, too.

Anya just smolders. Which works for latin. For salsa, I guess I always see it as a fast and flirty, cute kind of sexy. Anya is that "take no prisoners" kind of sexy. So it wasn't quite right. Got to hand it to her though, those tricks with a partner you don't really know, SCARY. Was it just me or did it look like she had some serious bruises on her knees? Girl's taking a beating!
Would be curious to know when/where the Ashley injury happened. Anyone seen a report of what happened? It wasn't during disco practice was it?
It's actually starting to really bother me, all the REALLY dangerous lifts they subject these girls too. It's one thing when you've got time to practice, but this show just moves too fast for this kind of stuff.

Anp, it looks like Ashley was supposed to dance with Pasha, so that was probably the Dmitry rumba. The way the girls have dropped like flies, the all-star guys are getting almost no work at all.

I really like Anya, but I thought she looked horrible with that salsa. Funny how I don't expect salsa dancers to do ballroom well, but I do expect ballroomers to do salsa well. Just goes to further show how disparate the styles are.

BrownSkin818 said:

I really like Anya, but I thought she looked horrible with that salsa. Funny how I don't expect salsa dancers to do ballroom well, but I do expect ballroomers to do salsa well. Just goes to further show how disparate the styles are.

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Even though I also really like Anya, I have to agree: both her and Adechike looked really off... But, unlike you, I don't expect ballroomers to do salsa well

In general, I amreally sick of the fact that my favorites keep getting injured. I was rooting for Alex to win it all. Then when he got injured, I thought Ashely was the best and my favorite to win. Now, I really, really hope Robert doesn't get injured. He's my top dancer now.