SYTYCD Week 1 Results

Why isn't there anyone from Season 6 in the opening credit sequence? That's weird. They had time to remix it over the winter, y'know.

Opening: Yay! It's just the contestants! Glad they got to do this on their own. The piece itself looked kinda sloppy, though. A lotta "girls as ropes", which was kinda weird.

The first four come up, and it's already clear my predictions were off last night. Also clear that the director learned nothing - way to miss the music cue and make Kat look bad (Kat is awesome so I doubt the overly long awkward pause was her fault). Anyhow, this cluster is not looking good for Lauren. But FAKE OUT! Which is totally OK if Kat does it, but not OK at all when the judges do it. I realize this seems hypocritical, but I can live with myself in this instance.

So I called 2 out of 3 - and I'm sad I got Cristina right, bc she's cute and I think it would be great to watch her learning curve.

The professionals, doing a piece from "Come Fly Away": That was fan-TAS-tic. To make a gross over-simplification, dynamics in music often involves playing with volume - and I love how they added dynamics to this piece by altering the speed. VERY cool.

Solos:

Melinda taps to James Brown, and throws in some entertaing James Brown impressions. But the piece had no levels - it was just kinda hunched over, and moved in one horizontal line across the stage.

Alexie does a boring slow graceful stretching of limbs contemporary dance.

Cristina does a standard latin solo number. Also with no levels. Although it appears she moves in 2 diagonal lines, rather than one straight line across the stage.

Oi, none of those were very compelling. So I'm thinking it'll be Alexie, even though it's really cruel. But she doesn't seem to offer much in the way of bringing any variety to this season.

Usher: I didn't find that memorable, but I approve of Usher in general, and appreciate it when the show feature performers who actually spotlight dance in their act.

Justin Bieber video: I actually like this kid's voice, and had "One Time" in heavy rotation on my iPod after I downloaded it free on iTunes. I was set to be annoyed by the odd placement of this video on SYTYCD, until - BEAT FREAKS and POREOTIX were in it! And what may have been We Are Heroes but I couldn't quite tell! Dance shows collide and I LOVE IT!!!

So it is indeed Alexie, but as Adam said - the girl is hirable. She seems spunky enough to overcome, but I feel for her.