One Last Update

Besides the sites I mentioned below, you can catch up with Natalie and her SYTYCD music columns at the SYTYCD Social and at Leee's site. The Social is also a great source of So You Think You Can Dance news. Enjoy the season.

BSYTYD Update

Unfortunately, BSYTYCD won't be returning. Thanks to everyone who contributed to its success.

For the latest BSYTYCD news, check in with Trandrew, Loralyn, and the crew at SYTYCDism.com, and with our friend The Enforcer at Admit It...You Love to Watch.

BSYTYCD Going On Hiatus

Sorry for the bad timing. I tried to make it to the end of the season, but just have too much going on. Thanks to everyone for your support over the last 2 seasons.

Top 6 Performance Open Thread

There are places where campaigning and billboarding (typing in caps) is appropriate. This isn't one of them. Let's please try to focus more on the dance and the talent, and less on the competition. Thanks!

So You Think You Can Dance Top 6 Spoiler Open Thread

News Update

LA Times Show Tracker covered the conference calls with Comfort Fedoke and Will Wingfield.



The Sydney Morning Herald adds some depth to our understanding of Nigel Lythgoe:

"Since I've been [in America] I've had a heart attack, I've lost the back of my heart, I've had peritonitis, I've lost 15 feet [4.6metres] of my intestine, my marriage has broken up and I've lost my wife," he says. "And the gag now is, I miss my intestine." (Jokes aside, he says he is on good terms with estranged wife Bonnie and thinks she did an excellent job as a judge on the Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance.)

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Scott Patrick Wagner wonders about the door slam sounds in Katee & Twitch's contemporary routine:

I had only heard the song used, “Mercy” by Duffy, in passing, and wasn’t familiar with the strong “slamming” percussive that ended those phrases. But I imagined that Mia let her imagination run wild with them, and they were perhaps the inspiration for the number. (Most of my own choreography has been to prerecorded pop music, and the arrangement can become a jumping-off point, if not a roadmap.)

I’ve had a chance to listen to the whole tune, and –somebody please correct me immediately if I’m wrong — but those door-slam percussives aren’t actually IN the song, at least not as it was recorded and released by the artist. To me, that just opens up a big ol’ can of worms. It has gone from feeling like inventiveness and resourcefulness to being, frankly, a cheat.

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He also wonders if Debbie Allen is coming back and if she's pissed...



JoannaOC analyzes the differences between Argentine Tango and Ballroom Tango.



Here's another reason Cat Deeley should have been nominated for a Best Reality Host Emmy. The 5 nominees will be hosting the Emmy ceremony. Pop up alert.



Sabra Johnson and Kameron Bink will be teaching in South Africa in late September/early October.

Jaymz In "Trash Me" Video

Season 2 finalist Jaymz Tuaileva in Jessie Malakouti's video for her new single Trash Me.

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