MellieMel, a reader of our tour coverage partner, Duckie Does TV, has written a review of the tour date in LA.
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LJ Blogger caroleanfruge has a lengthy post of her experiences delivering hand turkeys and flonkerton to the dancers after the show in Houston. There are a few interesting read-between-the-lines moments in her meet-n-greet report. Flonkerton? You'll have to read her blog...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Tour Reviews
Monday, November 26, 2007
Moon Over Sacramento
It looks like the tour has taken a toll on Dominic Sandoval. He dropped trou and mooned the crowd during a scripted portion of the show.
He later apologized.
Off Topic - Soul Music
I've only gone off-topic a few times here on the blog. I covered the Paul Potts story, and the Cebu Jailhouse Rockers. If you see a thread of continuity there, you're more observant than I. This is for anyone who misses real soul music in the tradition of Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, and Al Green. Thanks to a reader in the UK (who wishes to remain anonymous), I recently discovered Lemar Obika, simply known as Lemar. British and European readers are probably saying to themselves "well, yeah", but Lemar is pretty much unknown in the States. He reminds me of what Meshell Ndegeocello meant when she wrote I'm Digging You Like An Old Soul Record.
Lemar's Myspace page.
Lemar's official site.
More after the jump, including a brief appearance by a certain 7 foot tall TV host with white teeth and a French accent.
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Someone Should Tell You
Lemar visits Fame Academy, a British show hosted by Cat Deeley. She looks fabulous in her brief intro. Oh yeah, Lemar sings Let's Stay Together, though there's a much better version of him singing that song here.
Last Interviews From Toronto
Marine Gobert of Down The Road Webzine concludes her series of interviews with the tour cast.
Jaimie and Kameron:
What are your plans after the tour? Will you stick to dancing or try other things?
Kameron: Well I think a few of us are trying to branch out into acting and stuff, but I just want to keep dancing, keep learning for this next year, ‘cause before the show I wasn’t really dancing at all until January of this past year so I just really want to keep learning for this next year and just keep going and take whatever opportunities come my way.
Jaimie: Well first I thought I would probably want to branch out into TV, a little bit, commercials and stuff, and I might still - but after the tour, lately I’ve been hearing that I’m a lot prettier in person than I was on TV. [laughs] So I might stay away from the camera for a little while! I love theatre work, the tour has made me appreciate theatre and being able to feed off people’s energy, having that instant reaction and not kind of wait for it and read it on the blogs, so definitely, I’d love to do some more theatrical stuff and I want to move to New York ‘cause everything I love is up there.
Kameron: Me too, I’m going to New York too!
Jaimie: Oh my gosh, that’s perfect, ‘cause now we can go shopping together every day.
Kameron: Not if you wake up and leave without me.
Jaimie: Okay, alright.
Kameron: We’ll work on that.
Jaimie: We will, I’m sorry!
Kameron: It’s okay Jaimie.
Don’t fight!
Jaimie: He’s been doing this to me all day!
Kameron: I do it to her every day, all day.
It’s cool to see a guy who likes shopping.
Kameron: Are you making fun of me now?
[They both laugh]
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Lauren and Neil:
You were the last original partnership standing on the show – how did that feel?
Neil: That’s what’s up!
Lauren: I actually really wanted to dance in the final 4 so I could dance with Neil again just to see the difference from the very beginning of the show and then how much more we got used to it and use of partners and everything, see how it was at the end, it would have been really fun.
Neil: I would have loved to compete against- I mean, with Lauren in the finale. It would have been great to see her win the whole thing ‘cause she’s such a nice girl.
Lauren: Aw. I also think Neil lied once in the show, in the final 4 when he said he couldn’t pick a better final 4, I really think he wanted me to be there. [laughs]
Neil: I did, I did, because it was on national TV and I was put on the spot!
Lauren: Every time I watch it, I get really sad.
Neil: I’m sorry. I don’t lie but…
Lauren: That’s a large lie.
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SF Chronicle Shows Love For SYTYCD
The San Francisco Chronicle's Dance Correspondent, Rachel Howard, attended Friday's show in Oakland. She has a few reservations and critiques, but overall, thinks So You Think You Can Dance is a positive influence:
If "SYTYCD" is becoming part of our default national arts education, frankly, we could do worse. It's often criticized for cliched, commercial choreography, and on Friday you could see why. However heartfelt Mia Michaels' flower dance in memory of her father may be, it's sentimental mush (her dueling-princes showdown for top two male finalists Danny and Neil, though, is brilliant), and the imagination behind something like Wade Robson's swamp-creatures group number hardly stands up to the simultaneous wit and emotional complexity of a master like Mark Morris.
But a lot of the dance-making here is fantastic by any standard, especially the ballroom (Danny and Lacey Schwimmer smoking through that samba) and the hip-hop (Sabra and Dominic building heat in Sparks' strangely touching chair duet). And a lot of what the audience loves best tilts toward artistic ambitions, like Hok Konishi and Jaimie Goodwin in Robson's hummingbird dance, resurrected Friday.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Tour Reviews
Reader Kiches posted a lengthy review of the Oakland show, and the meet-n-greet afterward, to IDF forums.
LINK to show review.
LINK to meet-n-greet review.
Blogger Gura talks about 2 of my favorite things: food and So You Think You Can Dance.
Friday we slept in. Made some duck noodle soup from the leftover duck. In the evening we went to the "So You Think You Can Dance?" tour in Oakland. It was a relatively small crowd, so parking was easy. Along with the top 10 they brought along 4 of the other top favorites: Shawna, Hok, Jesus, and Anya. Danny is just simply mesmerizing and Pasha is quite hot, especially when he did his cape solo. The girls screamed for Neil and he played to them by showing off his body. We finally got to see a hip hop routine by the three hip hop dancers: Hok, Sara, and Dominic. Dominic was from Sacramento so he was enjoying performing in front of his home crowd and had several comedic interludes as part of hosting the show.
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SYTYCD News Roundup
Our friend Jayne, aka Wintermute, may be writing Project Runway reviews these days, but she didn't let that keep her from the So You Think You Can Dance tour date in Oakland. She reports at her blog, Thrown Under The Bus:
"Ohmygod, ohmygod, OHMYGAAWD! YEEEAAYY!!!!" Every time Pasha, Neil or Danny took the stage, the group of three *very* sharply dressed middle aged men sitting next to my mother at last night's So You Think You Can Dance show would scream with giddy glee. I even witnessed fist pumping. Several times. OK OK, so some of those giddy screams may have come from me, but who's keeping track, right? They were awesome. Behind us sat the unofficial Pasha fan club, headed by what I thought was the cutest 14-year old girl EVAR. Then I heard her scream. My eardrums are still ringing! Holy cow. They sure did love them some Pasha!
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Speaking of Pasha, here he is dancing with Anya in LA. From what I'm hearing, they have both grown in stature through the course of the tour.
LJ Blogger fixyoux has posted 3 lists of rankings. You are free to disagree.
LINK to top 10 contemporary dance routines from all 3 seasons.
LINK to top
LINK to top 10 group routines from all 3 seasons.
I enjoyed this little story about what a certain song on "Mommy's Dancing Show" did for LJ blogger turtle_head's family.
Now the kids love that song, because they associate it with me, and a show that made me happy and always put me in a good mood. For them, this song is a joyful memory that reminds them of a happy time.
And I didn't think it was at all possible, but now I have completely changed my opinion of the song. I can hear it now and I feel...okay. I think of my own kids and how awesome they are. I think about great dancing and how my kids love stuff that I love just because I love it and they love me and it's one big lovefest.
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Blogger Shana at Head-on Relief compares SYTYCD to Dancing With The Stars:
I love Mary Murphy. I might sometimes say I don’t like her, but really, SYTYCD would be nothing without her. Nigel is boring, and when Mia Michaels is a judge, I want to run through a foggy forest while wearing a long, flowing white gown, and once I reach the end, burst out into a sun-lit meadow where I can sing and frolic in yoga pants and a tanktop. And then I awake in a cold sweat, hoping to never see the MiaMullet ever again. When does the new season of SYTYCD start???
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