So You Think You Can Dance

The traveling tour members are all picked out. For the first time this week each dancer performed a solo. Two new dance styles were presented for the first time on the show. The judges opinion no longer matters; audience voting is all that really does. It's just like after the Presidential Primary. The remaining competitors really have a chance and your votes really count.

The biggest surprise this week was that Jessica is injured and has been instructed not to dance for several weeks. She remains in the group of touring dancers, but will not be competing on the show anymore. Because of this Comfort rejoins the competition. Since all the couples were split up, Twitch was liberated from Kherrington, and subsequently Twitch and Comfort were paired, resulting in a hip hop routine that brought the house down.

What more can I say about this show after myself and others? After episodes and episodes, I have come to believe that the most prominent part of the show is, and this is not lost on the judges who mention it constantly, the excellent choreography it showcases. Sure this show exposes a good dancer now and again, but more profoundly, it repeatedly moves us with the beauty of it's choreographed numbers. It is doing for choreography what MTV did for music in the 80s-90s. And this is not the snooty choreography you would see on stage at a dance performance, nor the contrived choreography that you would see in a Hollywood movie, but rather Pop Choreography. Choreography anyone can appreciate. Everyman's choreography. If you don't watch this show, you owe it to yourself to check it out for this reason alone. You may think you know every way that the human body can move and have seen it all before, but you'd be wrong.