The current season of So You Think You Can Dance looks promising, with an array if sick dancers. I've said time and again that I love this show for a loooooooong list of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I have absolutely no dancing ability.

Vegas week auditions started this last week, and here are a couple of early favorites. An adorable 18 year old who is technically amazing (and jailbait hot) and a quirky contemporary girl with some ballet chops.

So You Think You Can Dance

Here are my favorite performances from this week's So You Think You Can Dance:



Brandon and Janette. Wade Robsen proves why he's a-freaking-mazing. Janette is growing on me and while she's not my fav personality-wise, I can't think of anything that this girl won't kill on the dance floor. The performance was also hailed as Grant's favorite so far this season.



Mia Michaels is a beast. This piece was about the grip of addiction and Kayla and Kupono delivered with zest. Kupono was smouldering as the personification of drugs and Kayla amazes when she's given an emotional piece. This girl is so strong and once again, I marvel at how young she is.



Evan and Randi doing hip-hop scared the shit out of me. Thankfully, Tabitha and Napolean gave them hip-hop lyte and the two little sprites did quite well. The proposal to a preggo was adorable. I love hip hop love stories.

The elminated contestants? Philip and Caitlin, which I totally saw coming.

In better news, Nigel ensured the two that although they missed making the top 10 they would be going on tour! Yay for them!

So, next week we're down to ten and the judges no longer have any say. Couples are also broken up. I'm happy for that, and hopefully people will be given something outside of their comfort zone. How about some contemporary for Janette, the latin dancer who has had 3 latin dances. Or how about hip hop for ballerina Melissa who's never been outside of her comfort zone. And I hate to say it but Evan's got to do some ballroom with a non-midget girl.

I'll be waiting with baited breath next week. Please get it right America.

Television Producers Beware.

Here's my beef with So You Think You Can Dance this season. I suspect that producers have finally caught on to the fact that the fans of this show (and there are a lot now) do not like to see people fail. Unlike American Idol or Survivor, SYTYCD fans genuinely like to watch good dancing. And when millions of people are tuning in to watch something, and it's making advertisers pay you insane amounts of money to run their ads on your program, you give them what they want to watch. That's fine, I suppose, as a fan of the show. I too like to watch the dancers succeed. The problem is that the basis of the show is competition. Theoretically the "good" dancers are rooted out from the "bad" based on their ability to perform in a myriad of dance styles. No one is arguing that Philip is an amazing Hip Hop dancer but we'd like to see him dancing contemporary and see how he does. So far, he's been given Hip Hop twice. In four weeks. And that Pas de Deux which, admittedly, is one of the most beautiful things I have seen on the show was given to a classically trained ballerina. Just so that it wouldn't fail. I'd like to see Melissa try her hand at Hip Hop because I'm about 165% sure she would fail miserably.

I suppose I should stop complaining that reality television is not reality. I hasn't been for more than a decade now. But seriously. I expect more of you So You Think You Can Dance. Even if you are on Fox.

My Fav Performances on SYTYCD This Week

Jeanine and Philip kill it on a hip hop number. BB gurl almost tripped on that chain but it looked gooooood.



Maybe I just love these two, because the judges gave them a bit of flack, but I really, really liked this piece.



Kayla and Kupono dancing to mohawk's weirdo vampire piece. I love weird ass contemporary.