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So You Think You Can Dance
« on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 10:19am »

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Idol Honcho Plans Dance Off
by Matt Webb Mitovich

And you thought Simon Cowell didn't mince words. The contestants on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance had better have skin thicker than Spandex, because the show's quintet of judges all acclaimed choreographers features nary a Pollyanna Abdul among them.

The two-hour premiere (airing July 20) whittles scores of wannabe hoofers down to 50 competitors. "You've got me being pretty mean to people," executive producer Nigel Lythgoe tells TVGuide.com. "Then we hand them over to the choreographers, and they're just tough."

To illustrate his point, the moonlighting American Idol producer previews, "[Judge] Mary Murphy at one point turns around and says to [the contestants], 'You know, this is a ballroom, not a barroom. Go out, wash your hands, brush your teeth and for Christ's sake, if you've got any deodorant, use it!'"

Another example: "One girl dancer who couldn't cope with anybody said to the choreographer [teaching that week's new routine], 'Can I just sit and watch?' The choreographer said, 'Sure. You'll probably learn just as much watching as you would trying to dance it.' The following day, she went to another choreographer, couldn't cope [and made the same request]. The choreographer said, 'No! If you can't learn it, get out of my class!'

"Even I wouldn't have been that tough!" Lythgoe chuckles.

Comparing the critiquing to Idol's, Lythgoe says, "It isn't a question of three people sitting down at a desk; the choreographers are up there, throwing their bodies around with the dancers [during rehearsals], and then turn on them."

In other words, don't look for peppy comments like Randy's "Nice work, dawg" or Paula's "You are the best!" on this show. "Those personalities developed over the years," Lythgoe notes. "In [Idol's] first season, Simon was just booed, Paula changes with the wind and Randy... well, I still don't understand 90 percent of what Randy says!"

Lythgoe then addresses the obvious question of how So You Think You Can Dance will stack up to ABC's own very popular competitive dance entry, which wraps its freshman season on July 6. "As opposed to Dancing with the Stars, these are real people, real kids not stars going for another career. They're just kids following a dream. For me, there's a lot more heart and soul in it.

"These people," he concludes, "you just fall in love with or you hate their guts."

Believe it or not, So You Think You Can Dance isn't the only dance-oriented series in the works at Fox! Read what else is up their sleeve in today's Insider.

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Re: So You Think You Can Dance
« Reply #1 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 11:09am »

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I'm actually looking forward to this one.. should be entertaining!!

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« Reply #2 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 12:37pm »

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Yes i saw the comerical to this and i have to see this.It look's like it's going to be good.How did you find So You Think You Can Dance.I was looking for the website and i couldn't find it........This is going to be the next big thing lol cant wate. Roberto Logan Cool

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« Reply #3 on: Jul 6^th, 2005, 1:05pm »

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I think this looks pretty good too

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« Reply #4 on: Jul 6^th, 2005, 10:54pm »

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I think the first show is July 20th. Anyone know if this is correct?

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« Reply #5 on: Jul 7^th, 2005, 1:42pm »

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Dance fever hits TV, again

Thursday, July 7, 2005; Posted: 2:04 p.m. EDT (18:04 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Shall we dance, ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" asked viewers.

The mildly astonishing answer was: Heck, yes.

Pairing professional hoofers with celebrities of varying degrees of talent or klutziness (former boxing champ Evander Holyfield was game but no Astaire or even Ali) the show challenged them to dance styles not seen in most clubs.

Maestro, a quick step, please.

"Dancing with the Stars" caught the audience's imagination and drew up to 16 million weekly viewers -- the most-watched summer series in five years (since "Survivor" debuted in 2000).

The ABC program, which ended this week, may even qualify as part of a trendlet. Dance is on display in movie theaters, with the charming documentary "Mad Hot Ballroom," about a competition for fifth-graders in New York, and "Rize," detailing the culture of the athletic, urban-born dance called krumping.

Another TV entry, "So You Think You Can Dance," is poised to show it has the right moves.

From the producers of "American Idol" and Dick Clark, the Fox series debuting July 20 (8-10 p.m. EDT) follows roughly the pattern of the network's hit singing competition. Viewers pick the winner of a potentially career-building prize.

For singers, it's a record deal. For dancers, it's $100,000 and an apartment in New York for a year, putting them within a high-kick of Broadway.

But a single champ doesn't mean the performances are always solo. The 16 finalists will be randomly teamed up each week and told to strut their stuff on old and new dances ranging from ballroom to salsa to hip-hop.

It's time to bring couples dancing back, said series producer Nigel Lythgoe, who started as a dancer and choreographer in his native England and worked with such stellar talents as Gene Kelly and the Muppets on TV specials.

"I wanted to go back to, 'Hey, you can take somebody in your arms and dance.' What happened to the great American proms we see so much in movies?" he said. "Now it's all turning into dance battles."

So the series embraces the romanticism of dance?

"Yes," Lythgoe says, then offers a qualifier: "It's still competition, but it's not combative."

Romance in dance
One interested observer welcomes dance's resurgence. Deney Terrio coached John Travolta for "Saturday Night Fever" and hosted disco-fueled "Dance Fever," which debuted in 1979 and aired in syndication through 1987 (with Adrian Zmed as host the last two years.)

Today's talent contests echo "Dance Fever," on which couples were judged by celebrities including Tina Turner, Sammy Davis Jr. and actor-dancer Donald O'Connor.

Terrio, who has a six-day-a-week disco music program on Sirius Satellite Radio, thinks pairs dancing has an inevitable appeal and is pitching his own project to TV networks.

"I think romance will never die. People like dancers who can do the gymnastics and other moves but there's nothing like a couple -- how am I going to say this -- making love on the dance floor," Terrio said.

"American Idol" creator Simon Fuller and Dick Clark Productions had initially teamed to revisit Clark's "American Bandstand." But they decided an updated format was in order and called on Lythgoe to create a contest.

(Clark has been recovering from a stroke he suffered last December.)

"So You Think You Can Dance" opens with 50 contestants, amateurs and pros between jobs, who were chosen at open auditions in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

Asked what he observed at the tryouts, Lythgoe cited a startling number of belly dancers: "I've been to the Middle East and never seen so many belly dancers as in this country. Maybe it's something they do to keep fit."

More importantly, the experience reinforced for Lythgoe the importance of training and the general lack of it in contemporary dancing.

"Once you pirouette on your head, you've got to remember that dancing's also done on your feet. And they weren't very good when you took their tricks away from them," he said. "Once we put them with a choreographer, there were very few people who could pick up (steps)."

Top choreographers will help whip them into winning shape. They include Mia Michaels, Brian Friedman, Dan Karaty, Alex Da Silva and Mary Murphy, who count such pop stars as Celine Dion and Britney Spears in their collective credits.

The choreographers also will serve as judges, whittling the dancers down to four finalists. Viewers will choose the winner.

Terrio offers a word of advice for viewers, based on experience.

"Look out, guys. Women will be watching the dance show and saying, "Why don't you dance like that?"'

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« Reply #6 on: Jul 7^th, 2005, 1:43pm »

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http://www.fox.com/dance/

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« Reply #7 on: Jul 7^th, 2005, 1:53pm »

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i can dance salsa tango i dont have a prob dancing.If a beautiful lady wants to dance i will wisk her away on the dance floor............... Wink

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« Reply #8 on: Jul 19^th, 2005, 11:22pm »

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Starts tomorrow night at 7pm CST... just a reminder... have to record it, so I can watch The Cut and Brat Camp.. too much on Wednesday for my brain...

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« Reply #9 on: Jul 20^th, 2005, 8:54am »

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No Idol Dreams for Dance Stars
by Matt Webb Mitovich
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What first came across as a rather unpromising offshoot of American Idol who wants to watch people just, you know, dance? now appears to be the right idea at the right time. (Thank you very much, Dancing with the Stars.) Fox's So You Think You Can Dance (premiering tonight at 8pm/ET) brings 50 hoofers from across the USA to Hollywood, where those who merely dance will be separated from true dancers.

"We've got breakers, hip-hop dancers, ballet dancers, Irish dancers, lyrical jazz dancers, tap dancers," recounts Nigel Lythgoe, who executive-produces Dance (as well as Idol). "And we have brought them together with five choreographers and said, 'OK, so you think you can dance? Show us. Prove it.'"

After all, Lythgoe points out, "Anyone can stand up and say 'I dance.' Every one of us has had to do that, be it at an office party or wedding. But to say that is totally different from saying, 'I'm a dancer.' A dancer should be able to do lots of things. And any dance that revolves around movement, we will have them attempt to do it. It could be anything from the Charleston to krumping the entire spectrum of dance."

The field of 50 will quickly be culled to eight males and eight females. Pulling names out of a hat will create pairs (ah, shades of awkward grade-school square-dancing class) who will then tackle a new dance each week, as well as perform their individual specialties solo for the judges . "[Who makes it through each week] will be decided by the judges," says Lythgoe. "But at the finale, America takes over and votes for who they like."

But again, as we stated early on, this is dancing. Not singing. So what reward awaits Dance's first champ? (Please tell us it's not a beach-blanket movie with Justin Guarini.) "We're not turning them into stars like American Idol," Lythgoe concedes. "But we'll give them $100,000 and an apartment in New York City for a year. I don't know any aspiring young dancer who wouldnt like that. But no, they are not going to be the next Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood. You can't really 'release' anything as a dancer unless its the next home video of 'Teach Yourself Hip-Hop.'"

And to hear it from Lythgoe, Dance's dance card boasts more than its share of self-proclaimed experts. "There are so many 'choreographers' [out there]," he says with a roll of his eyes. "Every kid is a hip-hop teacher. One kid even turned around and said, 'I don't train; I teach.' I was like, 'Oh, well, let's hopefully put a pin in that bubble!'"

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« Reply #10 on: Jul 20^th, 2005, 9:03am »

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We've reserved our seats Cool

Robert, if that is you in your avatar, I see why
you have NO problem getting a lady to dance!

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« Reply #11 on: Jul 20^th, 2005, 1:16pm »

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This show should be pretty darn popular. Americans def love dance, but I am not sure how long the hyp will be able to last for it though. I think 12 weeks of dance might get a little dry after a while.

However, did you see the host for this thing? My lord is she hot.

Lauren Sanchez

Anyway, I think it should be a pretty good show and I look forward to discussing it here.

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So You Think You Can Dance
« Reply #12 on: Jul 20^th, 2005, 1:10pm »

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For those of you who haven't heard, the people that made American Idol are launching a show completely dedicated to dance. Wink

The show is called So You Think You Can Dance and ti will air on weds july 20th at 8PM.

Looks interesting, but I am not quite sure how it is going to last very long. Americans like dance, but not 12 weeks of it! Huh