So You Think You Can Dance "Top 20 results show" 6/16/2011 *spoilers*

MNoelH said:

I don't get the love for the chick in red (haven't got their names yet - Jordan?). She's trying to hard to be a pole dancer/stripper and I don't like it. Clarice is a sexy dancer without it looking like a strip tease.

I did really like the red chick's dance last night (at least I think she's the one that performed first).

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Jordan and Tadd opened the show with the African Jazz number choreographed by Sean Cheesman.

As for Jordan's style -- I saw dancers in the audition rounds who also wanted to do the "sexy dancer" schtick and were really cheesy and awful (and not at all sexy). One of the things I liked about Jordan's audition piece (to Beyonce's "Naughty Girl" -- which I linked to in the performance show thread) was that the dancing captured the character of the music, and it was pitched just right. It was wasn't just raunchy and nasty; it was sensual and playful. Naughty.

But it also struck me as a style that wouldn't necessarily translate well to the 30-second format of the solos on the show. IMHO she should have a different plan of attack if she ends up in the bottom again.

In the offstage bits, she was a goofball -- it would be great if the choreographers could make use of that and bring some of it out into her routines on the show.

I loved the audition piece for all the reasons Mary said in the after-audition comments -- the self-confidence, the mastery. And it was fun to see her render Tyce speechless and to see how red Nigel can get when he blushes.

I loved the African Jazz piece, so I hope Jordan doesn't get booted. I want to see the choreographers make her stretch. The 'Naughty Girl' thing was fun, but now we've seen that. I want more.

I agree with your synopsis on Jordan, murgatroyd. I liked her audition ok - I didn't think it was fabulous, but I thought it was tasteful enough and danced well enough to proceed. I guess, like you mentioned, that I just didn't like seeing more of it. It seemed to be pandering to the men (which if it lets you stay, is really not a bad thing, I suppose).

I suppose it's rather evident that I'm not a dance person. I don't know any of the technical details. I just really enjoy watching people dance.

There was one thing I wanted to ask about the group performance from this airing. I think it's super cool that these girls can do the splits standing up (I think that's called doing a leg extension?). Has it gone wrong when they do MORE than the splits? I'm probably going to fail to explain this properly, but when they go beyond creating a straight line and actually pull their top leg more towards their head? I noticed that one girl was so flexible that she did this while the other three of four that were dancing with her at that moment held their bodies in an actual straight line split. Or is it more awesome because they're showing that they are more flexible? Just wondering.