TV Dance Shows & Competitions

[bubba]

http://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/episode-guide/season-7/502270/week-3-night-2/episode-706/504106/


Last night on AGT had some good ones too!


I like that little six year old - he was like a young Michael Jackson.


And then mini Ozzie! 


They put through a lot of good ones that they are showing us yet, sneaky!

[doodler]

I'm not into kids and think most of the parents of kids trying out for these national tv competitions should be arrested for child abuse. But that boy last night was something else! He acted like a 30 year old in a kid's body. Certainly a self possessed little guy! For once, I agree with the decision to send him to Vegas... just so I can see him again!

One of the reasons I like AGT more than any of the others of its ilk is the way they handle auditions. The bad ones they show are entertaining rather than stupifying and the good ones they don't show are intriguing. The ones in between, good and bad, give us something to talk about!

[Tony_]

 Did see, SYTYCD, all of it, and found it somewhat fun.  Different.  A lot of empty seats in the theater, and I wondered about that.  They allow previous contestants to come back (IMO, a good idea, because people can grow and improve).  And then there's the phrase young people are using..... it was so gaaaay (or much of it).
 The ballet dancer, Jacobsen, if he can develop even more, is a personal favorite.  Worth watching, especially for those occasional moves which break out of the ordinary.

[bubba]

JACK??


I thought SYTYCD was great last night!   I couldn't wipe the smile of my face for a half hour afterwards.  I PVR'd it and watched it, my husband missed it.   I told him tonight we have to watch it together, so I will be seeing it again.


And I LOVE having Jesse on the panel (Mitchell from Modern Family) he was  cracking me up with his comments.  He has a front row seat for some amazing bodies.  Wonder what his boyfriend thinks of his new job? 

[jack]

as i said, two hours at a stretch is a LONG time, and i don't have the ability to tivo, although i do have a remote.  that is how i catch bits of shows like AGT.  if i get a glimpse of something eyecatching in a good way, like an aerialist, i stick around, if a kid or freak, pffft, gone.

i like the guest judges too, when like jesse, or like many of us the audience, he has developed a standard and vocabulary to critique a dancer.

i did feel bad for gianni, or however you spell it.  he had come a long way and had some serious talent.  a near perfect body too.  he bears a striking resemblance to joey laurence, which is indeed a good thing, cause he just keeps better looking every year. 

i have been suggesting at every venue and opportunity that sytycd posts to web something for the audience to view midweek.  7 days just seems SO  long to wait to see what happens next, and the new set of performances.

from what i have seen so far, the ballet boys are bringing it.  they have all that training, and they are dying to stretch their wings in other styles.

do you realize its at least two weeks before we see a full set of 9 couples squaring off, and we still don't know who the choreographers will be.

its at moments like this that, despite what an aggravatingly imperfect man he is, i have to credit nigel for almost singlehandedly revitalizing dance in the US, and to some extent the world, and for making dance an honorable, even admirable, profession for men.

look at broadway musicals, most notably NEWSIES.  almost half of the boys in NEWSIES are from SYTYCD (including my favorite from last year jess le protto)

it is the bane of my existence that i can't focus on a moving dancer enough to recognize them, the better to follow past seasons' dancers

[bubba]

http://www.fox.com/dance/

You should be able to view on line Jack!


I agree with you about the ballet boys, and I also agree about Nigel! 


It's funny though of all the shows I watch (and all the crap on TV) I don't really know anyone who watches SYTYCD.  I keep trying to get people to tune in.

They all think Dancing with the Stars is great,  and  it is good, I did watch it for years.  This year I passed.   But you can't compare the people who compete on that show to this show.


It is actually scary the talent out there.   I have been a fan of dance since I use to watch FAME.   I use to dream of going to a school for the performing arts, didn't happen.  Then I dreamed I may have a kid who would go, didn't happen.


Maybe a grandchild?   And maybe a boy, a ballet dancer.  I can always hope!

[doodler]

Comparing Dancing/Stars to serious dancing is like comparing an snowflake to an iceberg. HOWEVER, So/Dance is simply not as appealing to me as Dancing/Stars since way down deep, I don't care about dancing as an art form. Jack is a connoisseur. His attention to detail when it comes to dancing makes Len Goodman look like a novice. And therein lies the rub. I doubt there are many people watching the show with even a tenth of the interest in what comes next as Jack has.

[bubba]

See I do care about dance as an art form.  I think singers have enough people in their corner, lets get more people interested in dance.

Maybe Dancing with the Stars is a start......but if anyone wants to see the real deal pop over to SYTYCD.

And to "make it" in the arts, you have to be good at both.  I have a niece who has a wonderful voice, but was just too weak in her dance to get into the program she wants.


And if nothing else SYTYCD has some HOT looking guys (and girls)   The bodies on those people - it's insane -  of course that's a whole other post.


And maybe the diet thread! 

[jack]

bubba, i just mea culpa'd on the diet thread.  of course i also alibied, but its a start.

and i think the doodster is correct, i may not be able to identify a dancer in an ensemble, but i can see every toe point, and caliper the angle of a split leap, and of late, its not just the amateur dance school kids coming in, starting a couple of seasons ago, most noticeably with alex wong, billy bell, and a couple seriously trained competing ballroom dancers.  even the b boys coming in now know they need additional skills.

if you look at the backgrounds several of the few dancers we have seen audition so far, they are coming out of the joffrey, the sf and florida ballet troupes, even the cirque de soleil.  the season should be phenomenal this year.  even the kids coming out of dance schools, kent boyd, alison holker, etc are fully skilled and responsive to great choreography.  i really suffer waiting.
 

[bubba]

Jack were you a dancer?


"Alex freaking Wong" can't ever forget him, amazing........and yes hardly amature.


http://thewinger.com/alex-wong/


I really do think this season is going to be off the hook!

[jack]

i was a good dancer, but never a DANCER.  back in the 50's there was little in the way of dance opportunity and exposure.  my influence was american bandstand, and that wasn't going to take me anywhere, except i always had a date to dances.

[doodler]

Jack were you a dancer?


"Alex freaking Wong" can't ever forget him, amazing........and yes hardly amature.


http://thewinger.com/alex-wong/


I really do think this season is going to be off the hook!

If someone can figure out how to get Mary Murphy (is that her name?) to put a plug in it. I'd be more inclined to watch if she was replaced by something a little quieter, a jack hammer, for instance.

The other problem I have with So/Dance is they consider breakdancing, popping, cracking, slipslidingaway and all those other herky jerky gyrations as "dance." For me, that is the same thing as calling rap "music."

[bubba]

Oh yea Mary is sweet, but that laugh can get on the nerves!


As for the forms of dance, they can't just do one of those, they have to be good at many to make it all the way through the competition.   If you saw on the last episode... the ones that went to choreography, a lot of them didn't make it.   Just for that reason, they can't do anything else.

[doodler]

Mary's SCREAMING is not a laugh. It is a scream. You can't spin it any other way. And it is more than annoying.

[bubba]

She has a laugh, it is a constant giggle.......but yea she screams too!


You gotta get on her hot tamale train! 


Anyway after 8 seasons I am use to her.. and she knows her stuff, she has the credentials.