Back to the highlights as So You Think You Can Dance‘s second-to-last “Academy” round, whittling the All-Star teams down to two candidates apiece, before the top 10 reveal in weeks to come, brought back a bit more in the way of dance routines. While we’re sorry not to have seen, for example, Fik-Shun’s efforts with…
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World of So You Think You Can Dance: Traditional Value
Has the hour time cap forced So You Think You Can Dance‘s producers to tighten focus for Season 14 — highlighting both talent and stylistic diversity on a weekly basis, giving viewers less of the most conventional contemporary auditions and more ballroom, more varied hip hop, and a smattering of specialty styles? While the competitive…
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World of So You Think You Can Dance: Fancy Footwork
It was a passably good week for lovers of rhythm and footwork on the summer’s TV dance competitions. Tuesday’s World of Dance included a duel between Kyle Van Newkirk and high-profile hip hop duo Les Twins. The battle, unsurprisingly, favored the latter, but it was nice to get a glimpse of a full routine from…
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Wednesday Watch: World of So You Think You Can Dance
Note: Updated June 16 NBC’s new World of Dance set a rough road its first two weeks for fans of ballroom; similarly, the genre’s had more downs than ups on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, with the last real gasp in its last adult-focused season coming when Latin champ and SYTYCD Canada winner…