I am watching this ep now. I thought Brooklyn (first dance) was terrible. Just terrible. For that to be her dancing style, I was astonished at how bad she was. Her whole center was off, and I'm not a professional dancer.

I thought Ricky and Jessica were fantastic. What I really dig about Sonya is her reactions when dancers do a great job with her work. She was so pleased at their execution of her vision. She said "wow" at the end. I just love that shit.

Knock me over with a feather, there is a White woman named Tanisha!

Ha! le nubian, my irl SYTYCD friend said the same thing. We have taken to calling her White Tanisha because we still can't believe it.

I just watched the routines on HULU. I was out last night.

Hulu doesn't have the full ep up yet, just the individual routines so I had no idea who the choreographers were and didn't get any of the intros and such. Also, I watched them in reverse order, by accident.

I could guess who the choreos were on some routines. Some people do have signature styles...Travis, Sonja...I'm looking at you!

I think this week wasn't about pairing it was about letting them show off in their own styles. Why else would you have 2 ballerinas dance together?

I mostly enjoyed all of the dancing sans the judges, Kat Deely and the intros.

I'm not going to lie, I did a google image search on Tanisha just to see, and most of the pictures are Tanisha Singh and Tanisha Mukherjee, which I thought was interesting.

Also, they've really abandoned the "random choice of genre" idea, haven't they?

This week was "in your own style" -- they'll mix it up next time.

White Tanisha is one of the Utah Mormon ballroom girls, right? There is a strong tradition of unusual names among Utah Mormons. [link]

I watched clips on herky-jerky online, and so far my favorites are Stanley and Marquet. I had trouble telling most of the women apart.

Yes, since they went to the All Stars format, they've been doing the opening Top 20 night with the kids dancing in their own styles. They've usually done group routines, though. This is the first time (I think) that they've done opening paired routines in your own style. Maybe because of the double ballerinas? Or maybe because there's really only one true hip hop boy. And can we just stop and marvel at the fact that there is only one hip hop kid in the top 20 this year? That is just insane.

White Tanisha is one of the Utah Mormon ballroom girls, right?

Yep.

And can we just stop and marvel at the fact that there is only one hip hop kid in the top 20 this year? That is just insane.

Yeah, that's terrible.

OK, reading Kat's comments now...

Sonya seems to have expanded her movement vocabulary in interesting ways. It’s still her, but more varied

Yes, I thought so too--I was like "I think this is Sonya, but maybe it's not, it's a little less cray than her usual..."

And what is on her butt? Is it paper? Is it a bandage? It’s super distracting.

I didn't say it but I wondered the same thing. Tape that wasn't working?? WHY?

Crazy. And he seemed to be dealing with the stairs much better than Valerie. She kept looking down like she was afraid she was about to fall which I would have totally been doing, too, but it kinda defeated the purpose of making it look effortless!

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed!

It’s fun to hear Nigel talk about tap since he so clearly knows his shit. And Jason DeRulo was a tapper. Huh. Who knew?

Yes, and he really kinda cracked me up with the later "well, you know I come from a pointe background..." HAH.

I secretly think that Jourdan’s technique is a little bit stronger than Jacque’s but Jourdan seriously lacked the stamina to get through this routine

Ooh, really? What made you think that? I think I need to rewatch that one because mostly I was like "FOUETTE! Oh, dang, don't fall over, girl"

m confused about where the “R” sound is coming from in this girl’s name.

Is it just Cat's accent, or is there actually an R sound in it?

man who hears The Commodores come on and yells out “Aww, sookie sookie now!”

Dude. Where is the sookie sookie from? We used to do that as a warmup before drag shows!

Didn't make notes, but LOVED the Sonya "Vow" number. HATED Tanisha's ugly outfit on the last chacha. Also, why two chachas??? And I was surprised they didn't call him out on his mugging.

hite Tanisha is one of the Utah Mormon ballroom girls, right?

I was explaining to my coworker who I just watched the last two numbers with that there's lots of Mormon ballroom dancers, and then Tanisha said she had 11 brothers and sisters and I was like 'MORMON!"