EW.com reviews So You Think You Can Dance and gives it a B+:
...the ever-so-clever trick Dance regularly pulls off: Both dancers and viewers are constantly learning things. What's a good paso doble? How do performers interpret modern dance in a way that doesn't confound the audience? Does krump have rules? (Let's see Dancing With the Stars tackle that one.) Whenever the Simon of the group, Idol exec producer Nigel Lythgoe, muses about the influence of Michael Kidd and Bob Fosse in a beautifully choreographed piece, he's giving a quick lesson in dance history. It's like Bugs Bunny dropping opera, or mom slipping vegetables into the spaghetti sauce. It's so sneaky, it works.
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