Donyelle Jones Choreo (Video)

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Donyelle, Before SYTYCD

Someone recently posted this video from a show called Dance 360. Season 2 favorite Donyelle Jones wins a dance-off.

Donyelle Jones Video Blog

Season 2 favorite Donyelle Jones has a new, and rather long video blog up on her Myspace page. She's got big news, personally and professionally. Even though we didn't see her, she says she assisted on all but 2 shows during season 3, mostly for Tyce Diorio.

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Catching Up

Fortunately, I was voted off Jury Island before making the top 12. I don't get to go on the tour of a drug-deal-gone-bad murder case, but I have a bunch of stuff to catch up with.


BuddyTV has the usual interviews with the dearly departed.

Lauren:

Was it strange to do that elimination last week without the studio audience? It was so quiet.

I would have to say it was my least favorite part of the whole season. It was such an awful feeling because you forget that you want to look out into the crowd and people are cheering you on and saying good job. I almost couldn’t talk, I was kind of speechless because I was just looking to the right and I see all my friends, all my close friends and it made the experience a little more personal then being able to look out and thank people for sticking by me for so long. Sitting there watching my good bye package, it was like seven of us in the room, it felt really weird.

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Pasha:

You've danced with a lot of different women on the show. Do you have a favorite partner that you got to work with?

I would say, probably Sara. All the girls were incredible and I find a special connection for each person. I think it's a special part of the dancing especially the partnership dancing. But I think the best was with Sara.

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The LATimes' Jon Caramanica reviews the season and prepares us for the finale:

Even more than its dancers, though, "SYTYCD" fetishizes its choreographers, a rotating bunch who, in the eyes of the show, can do no wrong. There's Mandy Moore (not to be confused with the pop singer Mandy Moore), whose routines have been crisp, energetic and modern, and the sublime Mia Michaels, advocating on behalf of "alien" movements, and sometimes even getting the dancers to achieve them. Hunter Johnson has lent a touch of class to the competition with his waltzes, and Alex Da Silva's Latin routines have been slick.

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Mentioned by one of our many outstanding commenters, Deborah Starr Seibel was backstage at the results show:

So this year, the producers decided to take a kinder, gentler approach. For the first time, the dancers had a whole week off around the Fourth of July. "Even if they weren't feeling fatigued, to have a week off made a huge difference," says Donyelle Jones, also in the audience tonight. "They came back refreshed." The top four this year were also taken to a local spa last Friday for some serious pampering. "They're going to get a little spa, a little massage," said executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. All day Friday? "Oh, no, no, no," said Lythgoe. "They've got to work. They've got 11 or 12 routines to do next week between the last night of competition and the finale." Says Murphy, "I talked to the kids and they're in pretty good shape. We told them in Vegas (before the competition started in earnest), and I think they took it to heart: Get your bodies prepared. And that's exactly what they did. So just maybe we're going to see some of the best dancing out of them in the finale, which we definitely did not have last year because of the injuries. There's no way you can get the best out of somebody when they have a sprained knee or a broken toe."

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Video From Last Year's Tour

Myspacer Did He Just Go Crazy and Fall Asleep has several videos posted from last season's tour. They're decent amateur quality but watchable, and unlike the show, the camera stays in one place and doesn't cut away just when things get interesting.

Wade Robson's Ramalama Bang Bang group dance




Mia Michaels' Park Bench dance with Travis & Heidi




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Travis & Heidi's Paso Doble




Donyelle & Benji's Hairspray part 1




Hairspray part 2




Ivan and Allison's Why




Heidi & Ryan's Cuban Rumba part 1




Cuban Rumba part 2




Travis and Benji's Nerd Dance




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Blogger At The Taping

Junichi Semitsu, the "official exclusive blogger" for the Dixie Chicks, attended the taping of last night's show. He reports:

As I entered Stage 46 in CBS Television City, I immediately sensed the community and the cult status that this show has engendered. I passed celebrities like Vanessa Williams and Kids in the Hall comedian Scott Thompson, who were obviously big fans. I spotted two of last season’s finalists, Donyelle Jones and Heidi Groskreutz, making the rounds with old friends, while two of this season’s eliminated contestants, Jimmy Arguello and Jesús Solorio, warmly embraced one another. Even two of the contestants' swing-dancing father, Buddy Schwimmer, who has become known for always holding an electronic LED sign while sitting in the audience, is greeted like a national celebrity.

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Donyelle Jones Update

ATTENTION KANSAS CITY AREA:
Season 2 favorite Donyelle Jones will appear at the Move/Evolve Dance Intensive, July 21/22 in Olathe, Ks. For more infomation, visit Dance Alchemy

Benji Sauce

Check out Benji's latest post to his MySpace blog. He covers a lot of ground.

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Here's Benji at the 2007 Grand Nationals. It includes a contemporary solo, a style he never had to dance on the show.


Benji and Donyelle doing a goofy version of Too Much Booty at a summer dance camp.

Donyelle Needs Your Bad Dance

From season 2 favorite Donyelle Jones' MySpace blog:

Send me your Bad Dance pics

We are trying to put the final touches on the Bad Dance website and I want you guys to help out.

We are looking for VERY COOL bad dance PICTURES to use on the front page banner of the site. So send your BAD DANCE PICS to info@baddance.com

We will use the best one for the official banner. The rest will live on the image page on the site.

Please! Only use the images that you own the rights to. So don't send pictures that someone owns. In the subject header or in the body of the email say "Baddance.com has permission to use the image attached"

Lastly, let me know your name, myspace page address and where you are from.

Thanks you guys. Continue to send in your Baddance videos! THEY ARE GREAT!!

I have a couple surprise BAD DANCE VIDEOS that you will all LOVE. TRUST ME ;)

We will take submissions for a week

LOVE YOU GUYS

Benji does the bad dance thing:

Previous Bad Dance post here

Talent + Personality = Benji

I had somehow missed these clips of season 2 So You Think You Can Dance winner Benji Schwimmer appearing on a couple of talk shows. As we head into the serious competition of season 3, we see that this year's winner has some big shoes to fill when it comes to combining personality and talent.

In this Regis and Kelly clip, Benji does a respectable Regis impression.


Unfortunately, the Fred Astaire movie Benji mentions fell through. Heidi is in this clip, along with an appearance by Donyelle Jones, on The Megan Mullally Show


Another appearance on the Megan Mullally Show. No dancing this time.

Donyelle Jones Project

So You Think You Can Dance season 2 favorite Donyelle Jones is behind The Official Bad Dance Website. Donyelle Jones? Bad dance? How can THAT be? Well, it's about having fun, like this guy, Tahir:

I gotta get one of those t-shirts, even though I'm melanin-deficient.

Here's a video blog from Donyelle, recorded back in April. She tells us her plans for the summer, and even sings a bit, all recorded at the ungodly hour of 5am.

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Benji and Donyelle: Too Much Booty

Benji Schwimmer and Donyelle Jones, Shane Sparks choreography, Too Much Booty In The Pants.

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Donyelle Jones signing autographs

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Donyelle Jones signs autographs for fans in Toronto.

Interview with 5 SYTYCD season 2 Finalists

Benji, Donyelle, Travis, Heidi & Allison stopped by Canadian music channel MUCH for a great interview, here. Check the pics, too.

We love us some Donyelle

Donyelle Jones reached the final 4 of season 2, and we admire her all the more after reading this article in Australia's Herald-Sun