Romance author Donna Kauffman loves her some SYTYCD

By Joyce Lamb, USA TODAY

I’m a large fan of So You Think You Can Dance, and some of a many fun I’ve had online (other than that pool boys website that … well, never mind) has been reading Donna Kauffman’s part recaps on her blog. Donna is a big-time intrigue author (Babycakes comes out in October), so we was anxious when she concluded to share a teaser to her recaps here during HEA. Plus, afterwards we get to contend things like, “I was articulate to Donna Kauffman a other day …” and people in a know get all impressed. I’m kinda shoal that way. So, anyway, here’s Donna with a teaser to her summation of this week’s SYTYCD ep …

Donna: Yay, after dual weeks spent examination a fanciful London Olympics, So You Think You Can Dance welcomes us behind to unchanging promote programming with a large bang!

I wondered how I’d feel after such a prolonged break. Would a movement be gone? Would we even remember all a couples remaining? Would we caring again? Well … they got me right behind inside a initial few mins by announcing that they took a two-week mangle so that any of a remaining 7 couples could learn one of Mia Michaels’ signature (and oftentimes Emmy-winning) performances from seasons past. Yes, each slight is choreographed by her, so we get to see some of a favorite aged routines danced by new partnerships. we don’t always adore all of Mia’s routines, yet they do customarily make we lay adult and compensate attention, regardless. So we was kind of vehement about this announcement!

But, if that wasn’t adequate … Cat Deeley, a poetic stewardess with a mostess, roughly accidentally lets us know that this week we’re going from a Top 14, all a approach down to a Top 10. we suspect it’s to make adult for a two-week mangle in some fashion, yet … YIKES, y’all! we don’t even remember who we competence have voted for (if we didn’t watch this thing in a wee, diminutive hours) or who we suspicion should go home. we had to go behind and examination my possess recap!

So, I’m disorder a little, yet even some-more focused now … and afterwards we get a large “awwwww” impulse where we find out what renouned choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon have been adult to during a mangle … they were bringing their son into a world, a really adorable, really diminutive London Riley.

OK, comfortable fuzzies have been totally easy now. We also got a news there is an app now for a show, yet we haven’t checked that out as nonetheless to find out what we’d need a SYTYCD app for, exactly, yet hey, it was usually a engorgement of Welcome Back-ness, wasn’t it?

Now, on with a show! We open with a Top 14 dancing a usually strange Mia Michaels square this week. There are bondage unresolved from a roof and lots of black clothing. It looks a lot some-more Sonya Tayeh Meets Wade Robson, yet I’ve missed my weekly dance repair terribly, so my expectations will be simply met. Or, we know … not. So, yeah. It was OK. we favourite a music. But we consider a slight possibly indispensable to go full-tilt Cirque, or usually … not. I’d have voted for not, since there was a whole lot some-more swinging about than there was dancing. Just me? Alrighty then.

Let’s pierce on to a dances we can indeed opinion on. Our special judges this dusk are a U.K.’s famous Ballet Boyz duo. we could try to explain their amazingness here, yet it’s easier to take a journey over to their website and let them tell you: BalletBoyz.com. So … was we right? we know! we wish we’d gotten to see a slight from their unit as an opening number.

Finally we’re prepared for a start of a evening’s new-but-not-really performances. Cat teases us that there’s a bed … a doorway … and a park dais to demeanour brazen to. we know all 3 of these routines. Which sounds rather pitiable of me, we know, yet a law is, we keep subsequent to zero about past seasons, or who was on when. we have some stand-out routines that will stay with me forever, though, and those 3 above are among them.

Will this season’s dancers do them justice? Or usually make me revisit YouTube to locate a strange performances again and whine sentimental sighs?

To find out what happened … and my thoughts on it (and accessible links to all a strange routines!) conduct on over to my blog.

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