After a double-dip last year of Season 5 followed immediately by Season 6, it seems like forever since we’ve seen this show and it’s great to have it back. As stated in our look at the changes for Season 7, only 10 dancers can make it to the Top 10 this year, instead of the [...]
Initial Season: Season 4
Style: Popping/Locking/Krump
Twitch is the Krumper with a mile of personality and a never say die attitude. Twitch originally barely missed the cut for Season 3, and came back for Season 4 with an even stronger skillset within his genre and better flexibility outside of it. What we saw during Season 4 was [...]
Initial Season: Season 4
Style: Jazz/Broadway/Cultural
Mark Kanemura is the quirkiest contestant to ever grace the SYTYCD stage. His ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ solo captured the imagination of the judges and the audience and I can easily say I’d never seen anything like it before he brought it to the stage. Mark’s quirkiness serves him well in the styles [...]
Initial Season: Season 2
Style: Jazz/Contemporary/Broadway/Cultural
Allison’s season of So You Think You Can Dance was before I started watching the show religiously, though I caught many of the episodes and her performances. Allison made the Top 8, and seemed to have the carefree / playful attitude that I tend to find more compelling in contestants. Her [...]
Initial Season: Season 3
Style: Ballroom/Latin
We’ve all heard it… the distinctive sound. When two partners burn up the So You Think You Can Dance stage and the chemistry is heavy enough that the audience needs to take a cold shower. We can see the smoke on the horizon and then before we know it we hear [...]
Initial Season: Season 3
Style: Hip Hop/Breakdancing
Dominic is a great hip-hop dancer, but in particular his break-dancing skills have seen him move on to bigger and better things since leaving the show. Dominic (or ‘D-trix’) along with a few other SYTYCD alumni are members of ‘Qwest Crew’ which competed on Season 3 of America’s Best Dance [...]
Initial Season: Season 3
Style: Hip Hop/Jazz/Contemporary
It’s hard to say what makes someone your favorite dancer. It’s a mix of the right choreography, seeing them in a variety of settings and of course how you perceive the little information you get about them outside of their time on the stage. Lauren has long been one of [...]
Initial Season: Season 4
Style: Contemporary/Jazz
Courtney is a compact dancer that demands your attention. She may ‘only’ be representing Contemporary/Jazz, but those two styles are so open-ended that they can mean almost everything that isn’t Ballroom and Hip Hop. Courtney was part of several great routines in her season and whether she’s projecting playfulness or raw [...]
Initial Season: Season 3
Style: Jazz/Contemporary/Broadway/Cultural
Neil is an athletic, strong dancer who was a clear stand-out on Season 3 both for his range as a dancer and for his leaps/jumps. In fact, while his athleticism was a strong suit it also garnered a bit of early criticism for him hiding behind it and not showing enough [...]
Initial Season: Season 3
Style: Ballroom/Latin
Pasha may be a Ballroom/Latin dancer, but he has an appeal regardless of what style he dances. Pasha was originally on Season 3 with his dance partner Anya who has also come back this season as an all-star. The two of them have had on and off involvement with SYTYCD since [...]
Initial Season: Season 4
Style: Hip Hop/Krump
Comfort is something like a female Twitch, in that she’s primarily a Hip Hop/Krump artist who has had mixed results when having to dance outside of her genre. Also like Twitch she survived a near-miss, in her case being eliminate and then being brought back as an injury replacement. In [...]
Initial Season: Season 6
Style: Jazz/Contemporary/Broadway/Cultural
Kathryn was one of the strongest female dancers from Season 6, a season that saw several technically gifted female dancers. One of the strengths that Kathryn brought to the stage was her ability to dance in almost every style, being able to handle the quirky emotives of Contemporary, the smooth lines and [...]
