So You Think You Can Dance

After many talent competitions, it has a virtue- it is different. Profound different. And it reminds the force of dance, genre by genre, to say, in profound sense, with deep intensity, the truth about skills and art and people on the scene. In same measure, it is a contest in which the viewer is part moment by moment. Because the fair judgments , the each move, the music are tools for discover yourself and for remind the intensity of dance as pure form of art. So, for many reasons, the show.

I study voice and so when I watch a show like American Idol, I can tell when they're faking it. Worse - they always get away with it. I also dance, so I was not going to turn away an opportunity to watch a dancing American Idol. Way better than the original. You just can't fake it. The dancers are either good or they're bad - no getting around it. The result? An absolutely amazing hour of dances that remind you to love the arts. There's hip hop and ballroom the entire spectrum is covered. I personally can't wait for a second season and would recommend this show to anyone who has ever tapped their foot while listening to music. It's just that good.

The dancers are very talented but no more than in previous years. Missing Nigel and Mary. Their years of experience and expertise are so needed. Twitch is great as a judge and as a former winner of SYTYCD knows what it takes to be a successful dancer. I've watched for years and will continue for at least a few more episodes to give it a fair shot.

I am disappointed in so you tycdance. In the final episodes randomly pairing people & deciding who remains based on the best of the pairing. Who in the world thought this would be a viable way to end up with the best dancers. Could you have not spent a little more brainpower to come up with another way to eliminate people. If you wanted to do the pairing-do it-give each dancer a score then after all dancers have performed base the elimination on score comparison amongst all of the dancers. The dancers with the lowest scores would then be eliminated. The process you used was totally unfair- made no sense. Totally ridiculous brought me such disappointment in the show.

Coming from a point of view of just a "regular person" I watched So You Think You Can Dance and fell in love. It does have a lot of the same tricks as American Idol, but there's one big and important thing that it does not share, and that is when they eliminate the contestants for the purpose that America does not pick the best dancer based on just personality. What actually happens is that America picks the bottom three couples, and then they each have 90 seconds to prove themselves(it is obvious who has practiced or not) and then the judges eliminate two of them. And I think majority of the time, the judges give very good reasons, they are not biased, they are fair. But afterwards, when it comes to the top 5 couples, they are separated and then randomly chosen for one another to see the chemistry they can have with other partners. In that voting process, America chooses who stays and who leaves, until the final four where one is chosen as America's favorite dancer. (not America's best dancer) Another thing I liked about the judging process is that they switch judges to prevent a bias, but they are usually judges of different styles just as the contestants are. The contestants are obviously chosen because of their strength in their own style, but in the process of trying out, they are tested if they can follow different sorts of choreography well to test their versatility and if they can, the judges tell if they are voted into competition or not. But throughout the competition, they do beautiful and fun pieces, which makes the show very addicting to watch because no one knows what type of dance will be chosen for them or how they will do.