'So You Think You Can Dance': Vegas callbacks, baby!
It's the best part of the So You Think You Can Dance auditions -- VEGAS!
152 finalists are facing off, taking on all kinds of challenges from the choreographers, to make the Top 20 and the live show.
Up first, each contestants takes to the stage for a solo.
Nathan Trasoras, who was too young to compete in season five, got his chance to come to Vegas this time around. The judges don't give any feedback for this round.
Ellenore Scott gives a wacky, amusing, but still very technically sound, audition and gets a standing O from the judges.
Then we get a montage of a bunch of auditions at once, but no names. After the first 10 dance, they are called forward and two are cut. Brutal. (By the way, I can't list all the names because they're not all ending up on screen, and some of these are just not guessable.)
Shelby "Skip" Skipper, the New Orleans "bounce" dancer, gets to show his solo on screen, and there's good reason -- he's fab.
Allison Becker, who is hearing-impaired, got cut, but we didn't get to hear much about that.
Thomas Hamilton, whom we met in the Atlanta auditions, is trying to better his life. He tries to climb the scaffolding in his audition, and Nigel stops him. He ends up getting cut.
Next is a montage of cuts.
Same-sex ballroom couple Jacob Jason and Willem de Vries audition. The judges like Willem, but not Jacob, which is upsetting to him, and they don't get to say goodbye to each other.
41 were cut in the first round, leaving 111 to take on hip-hop. Teddy (the goofball in the golf pants) does surprisingly well and makes it through, but a lot of others do not. Ryan Kasprzak (Evan's brother from last season) gets a 3-3 split in the hip-hop round, so he barely makes it through. But hip-hop is his toughest genre, so he's hoping for the best in the next rounds.
For the next round, Louis Van Amstel (!) and Anya trains the finalists in a really tough cha-cha routine. Billy Bell takes an elbow to the face and can't return to the stage until he starts bleeding. Krumper Russell (the first ever to make it to Vegas) is partnered with ballroom star Ivetta (whom we met last night) and they're feeling confident. They get through -- and the judges praise Russell and tell him how unexpected his amazing performance was. B-boy Legacy gets nailed for lack of personality, and he is told he'll have to "dance for his life." Everyone else -- including Billy and his partner, who didn't get to practice with the music after his injury -- in this group makes it through. Ryan Kasprzak is in the final group, and he looks totally frantic during the dance. Nigel Lythgoe looks heartbroken, but tells him he's cut. Bummer. He's a lot of fun, but this wasn't a great audition.
In the dance-for-your-life portion, John Litzler, a contemporary dancer from New Orleans, looks terrified during his solo. Nigel says no, as do three others, so he is cut. B-boy Legacy is next, and he's very emotional and worried beforehand, but he plans to leave it all on the floor. Nigel tells him his cha-cha stinks, but his b-boying is great. He gets another chance.
On the other hand, Teddy got cut after cha-cha, as did Skipper.
Vegas continues next week. Huzzah!
What did you think about the start of Vegas rounds?
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