So You Think You Can Dance, S5 auditions and Las Vegas

[oyceter]

Out of all my TV shows, this may be the one I look forward to the most...

It's just always so amazing watching the dancers, and it reminds me to start lindy hop again.

I skipped auditions last year because I was watching from Taiwan, and it's a lot to download, but I'm glad I watched this year. Usually there's a fair warning when it comes to the embarrassment squick section of the episode, and I can fast forward that while watching people's solos. I love watching the solos, and a big reason why I am watching this year is because I was so sad to miss some people's last year (Mark's Bohemian Rhapsody one, Will's).

I also get so much more attached to the dancers than I do for other reality show contestants. Why yes, I am still mad Will and Katee from last year didn't make it further, even though I love Joshua.

Right now I'm rooting so hard for Brandon and super sad Natalie ended up getting cut. There are two other male contemporary or maybe ballet dancers that I also love; something about the tight control that comes with "classical" dance really appeals to me. Sadly, I haven't noticed as many hip hop or ballroom dancers, but they may just not be showing them.

Also, we get another season in the fall? Awesomesauce! (Though wow, aren't the judges exhausted? The audition process looks so difficult.)

(Still working on the Asian Women's Carnival, apologies for the delay.)

Comments

[rachelmanija]

Brandon is my favorite! His audition solo was the best thing I saw so far.

I was sad at all the dancers who got cut, including most of my favorites! (Like the Asian guy with the hat and the black glasses and the super-quirky hip-hop (I think) style.)

I wish they'd shown everyone's solos. Will they show them next week?

[oyceter]

I loved his solo so much! I also loved Gabby's (the bird-like girl with arthritis?) and Natalie's, and I'm so sad Natalie was cut! And the Japanese hip hop dancer!

They usually don't show the audition solos again, although they might show clips when they tell us who the top 20 are next week. At least, that is what I am hoping! I also really hope Brandon makes it through, especially since he didn't last year.

(Haha, are you watching the show now?)

[rachelmanija]

I guess I am! I was in Santa Barbara, so I even forced my parents to watch the entire 2-hour thing... and I think they were getting into it!

PS. "Fashion Show" is on Bravo tonight at 10. Though it's the often cringe-tastic "dress a normal woman" challenge, so possibly not the best entry point.

[oyceter]

Oh, I was wrong, they announced the top 20 tonight!

Oooo, what's Fashion Show? How is it different from Project Runway?

[rachelmanija]

Well, Project Runway got hung up on lawsuits, so Bravo created a veeeeery veeeeery similar show called "The Fashion Show." Ha!

Downside, and it's a big one: No Tim Gunn.

Upside: Has the charming Isaac Mizrahi, plus two likable other judges (Kelly, a model, and Fern Maliss, a designer.) Strongly resembles "Project Runway."

Has some hilariously over-the-top contestants, like Merlin (who wears a red jumpsuit and looks like a Keebler elf) and Jean-Paul, whose work is supposedly based on "post-colonialist theory and rectangles" and who was so horrified at the thought of having to design for "real women" (as opposed to models, who I guess are either androids or men!) that he spent the entire episode looking like someone had hit him over the head with a brick and he saw another brick out of the corner of his eye.

Current favorites to actually win: temperamental but talented Daniella and deservedly confident Reco, the latter of whom pointed out that he designs dresses for "real women" all the time: namely, his Mom and his sisters.

[oyceter]

Noooooo! Project Runway hung up on lawsuits? Oh that sucks =(. At least I have S5 to watch....