Anyone check out the Dancing With the Stars results show last night?  We all know that Lacey Schwimmer (from So You Think You Can Dance?) is one of the pros on this season, and last night she and her brother Benji did a routine to that weird Brad Paisley song “Check You For Ticks”.  Cut routine! I love all ex SYTYCDers popping up this season, like Pasha & Anya who performed a couple of weeks ago.  Check it out below:

 Last night I headed down to Fresno for the So You Think You Can Dance? 4.  Usually, every year I check out the American Idol tour but decided to go to this one instead for the first time since AI7 was the pits.  Let me just say, this group is better than the credit people give them!  They were super entertaining with all their skits in between the dances, especially Gev.

The show opened with that hot Shane Sparks hip hop routine to “Elevator”, and followed by Katee & Joshua’s Samba.  I think they changed this up a bit (I noticed a few changes in a few of the dances) and it was so much more entertaining live!  But the next two dances weren’t; sorry, but I still see  Twitch & Kherington’s Hip Hop and Will & Courtney’s Lyrical Hip Hop as throw away routines.  The fake Chelsea/Will wedding pictures were pretty cute though.

Gev & Chelsie’s Jive was SO energetic and sooooo fast.  My gosh, her legs move like crazy. Chelsea & Thayne were the tour alternates and did their Cha Cha.  I’m glad Chelsae T. got to be on tour cause she was totally robbed; she was killin’ it in some of the group dances too.  I’ll always love  Katee & Joshua’s Mia Contemp, but oddly enough I though Joshua was hitting it a bit more than she was.  And Will is always, always, ALWAYS a great soloist. I loved the choregraphy he did.  His contemporary routine with Jessica was oh SO powerful on stage and just beautiful to watch. I really wish the two of them could’ve done “Alone”, but I’m guessing Jess still hasn’t fully recovered.
Twitch & Joshua’s Russian Trepak  was another highlight of the first half.  To me, that routine will always be just a bunch of stunts but the crowd loved it.  Twitch is WILDLY popular; he got even more love than Joshua did. I mean people were seriously going crazy for him and he totally hammed it up.  HE was on stage so much if I didn’t know better I would mistake him for the winner.  The first half closed with Joshua & Katee’s Bollywood routine, followed by the group Bollywood.  This was one of my favorite parts of the show.

Second Half

The second half opened with “The Dance”, you know, that weird Cirque Du Soliel like Mia group routine.   Loved it.   Katee & Twitch did the door routine, which was great live, and  Chelsie & Joshua and did their Aregentine Tango.  Another routine that didn’t really need to be there, but whatever.  I did love seeing Comfort and Twitch dance to “Forever” again.  This routine was just FRESH.  They added a lot in and played to the crowd as well.

Then we finally got to see Gev and Courtney do their ONE dance together.  I still can’t believe they only had ONE routine.  That’s just absurd.  There was yet another group dance thrown in; the “Money” broadway routine, which was surprisingly fun to watch.   Joshua and Katee also did a Contemporary routine that I couldn’t remember for the life of me!  It was the one to “All By Myself”.  And one of the last routines of the night was Mark & Chelsie’s “Bleeding Love”.  I had no idea just how wildly popular this routine was.  Even when they would show glimpses of it up on the teleprompter, people went crazy!  The two of them did great, as usual, but just like with Gevney, they should’ve had more routines.

Twitch & Kherington’s Waltz, Katee & Joshua’s “No Air” and the “You Can’t Stop The Beat” group routine finished out the night.  Oh, and I almost forgot about the solos!  Gev’s solo pretty much owned them all.  Seriously, the lighting and everything he used was pretty amazing.  Mark’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” solo was up there too; the crowd REALLY responded to all his quirky movements.

So if you have the chance to go to this show…..GO.  Get your tickets NOW.  You won’t regret it! I enjoyed this more than most of the AI concerts I’ve been to.

It was kind of weird that the dancers were required to stand on stage after their performances for a very loooong amount of time, but it made it much easier to get good pics.  I wasn’t focused on taking photos as much as I usually am at this show, yet these are probably the best ones I’ve gotten from any show.  Enjoy!

More Mark pics…

Everyone else…

Group…

The So You Think You Can Dance? S4 tour kicked off in Washington last night. This is the first year I’ll be going to see this show (on Oct. 5th) so I was pretty anxious to see what they had in store. Set list first, my griping later…

ACT ONE:
Elevator Group
Katee & Joshua - Samba
Twitch & Kherington - Hip Hop
Will & Courtney - Lyrical Hip Hop
Jessica Solo - Say by John Mayer
Gev & Chelsie - Jive
Chelsea & Thayne for - Cha Cha
Katee & Joshua Mia Contemp
Will Solo
Courtney & Mark - Jazz
Katee & Joshua - Broadway
Gev Solo
Jessica & Will - Contemporary
Comfort & Mark - Hip Hop
Khertington & Twitch - Contemporary
Chelsie Solo - Just Dance by Lady Gaga
Top Five Guys - “Five Guys Named Moe”
Kherington Solo
Twitch & Joshua - Russian Trepak
Courtney & Mark - Viennese Waltz
Katee & Joshua - Bollywood
Group Bollywood

ACT TWO:
Mia Group Contemporary - The Dance
Katee & Twitch Contemporary
Comfort Solo
Chelsie & Joshua - Aregentine Tango
Katee Solo
Comfort & Twitch - Hip Hop
Mark Solo - Bohemian Rhapsody
Courtney & Gev - Cha Cha
Katee & Will - Pas de Deux
Courtney Solo
Group Broadway
Twitch Solo
Katee & Joshua - Contemporary
Chelsie & Mark - Hip Hop “Bleeding Love”
Joshua Solo
Kherington & Twitch - Vienesse Waltz
Katee & Joshua - Hip Hop “No Air”
Group Routine - You Can’t Stop The Beat

Here it comes. They could’ve done a MUCH better job planning this. There are so many needless routines here, like the Chelsie/Joshua tango, Joshua/Katee samba, Will/Courtney hip hop and especially that horrid Kherington/Twitch hip hop. Seriously?

And speaking of “Twitchington”….how on earth are they doing THREE routines while Mark & Chelsie and Courtney & Gev only get one each? I probably would’ve reconsidered buying tickets had I known that in advance. But hopefully seeing “Bleeding Love”, Will & Jessica’s “Adam and Eve” and “The Dance” will make up for it; LOVED all three of those!

Source: IdolForums.com

The new “celebs” for the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars sounds a lot better than last seasons line up, but I’m not feeling some of the rumored (key word being rumored!) partnerships.  Here’s the line up, care of the Today Show:

Lance Bass (From NSYNC) - Lacey Schwimmer oye….
Toni Braxton (Singer) - Alec Mazo
Brooke Burke (Playmate) - Derek Hough
Rocco Dispirito (Chef) - Karina Smirnoff
Maurice Greene (Track & Field Olympian) - Cheryl Burke
Kim Kardashian (TBD) - Mark Ballas
Cloris Leachman (She’s 82!) - Corky Ballas (Mark’s father)
Cody Linley (Hannah Montana) - Julianne Hough
Susan Lucci (Soap Star) - Tony Dovolani
Misty May-Treanor (Volleyball Player) - Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Ted McGinley (Actor) - Inna Brayer
Jeffrey Ross (Comedian) - Edyta Sliwinska
Warren Sapp (Footballer) - Kym Johnson

I would’ve rather seen Maks with Kim Kardashian or even Toni Braxton (although she and her partner will probaby do really well).  Cody Linley is the guy who played Hannah Montana’s boyfriend for a season or two; he and Julianne will get the tween vote, for sure, but that’s waaaaay too much blonde.  I think Lacey will be so far out of her league next to those pro’s, and of course they have to pair two of the most obnoxious psuedo celeb, blech.   Has she finally quit crying over David Cook?

Oh yeah and the fangirls can be happy that Maks is back.  I still don’t get his appeal….

Yes, finally!

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Recap of the show (with my comments, of course!) and the winner on the flip side!

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