This so this why I never see you there...Good one K.

I would give anything to be able to see a taping, honestly. I just have to watch at home...with a box of Kleenex and the phones turned off...

When I was sweet sixteen and never kissed - there was a Baltimore TV show called `
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Buddy Dean.
I no watch TV.
Rarely. Ugh.
I would again?
If we can dance.
Dancing is fun.

No bump behinds,
thighs, big belly,
hips, bump nose.

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I use to watch `
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Bowling for dollars.
Tonight I'll play real`
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Bingo! Honest. Oho!
The carnival is here!
I'll play with Friend!
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Actually, I'll play with:
My daughter and my 2
Grandchildren. Bimbo!
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This reminded me of:
Miserable Billionaires,
Capital Hill's bah Critters,
and they smirk a evil grin.
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They argue with the President.
We leave toilet seat up or down?
They bequeath their bowling balls.
Posterity gets ruin because they is:
spineless, jellyfish, and hack fat cat
Cheshire cat hair-balls. Piggy bank.
They (some) dance like stripper at:`
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Archibald's Strip Tease Pub @ K. St.
It cost $9.000 a beer plus tips that
can get into $sax digit blow horns
brass ball figures. What dupes.
Not you a dupe. DC B&W cats!
They're surly pathetic wastrel!
I go get ready for the Fireman.
They have a rural Bingo Game.
My daughter talked me into it.

I danced at Bob Dylan's concert.
She reminds me of Alice's child.
She teach preschool and smiles.
may dance at my funeral party.

I love to yell Bingo. Later. huh.
I was gonna comment @ supper.
She closed comments. She wise.

Wow, this was the best dance I have ever seen.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful video.
The comments were right on the mark.
rated with love

Art...you write like they dance. I'm sorry @supper closed comments. Yours are always worth it. (I bet I'm being way too literal, right?). And my Poetess...KILLS you, doesn't it? My jaw dropped...and I just sat for a while, trying to believe what I'd just seen...

i was with art at dylan's concert, and yes,
he danced like an electrocuted priest farmer.
"just like a woman" left him in tears.
i carried him out,
fire man style,
to the oxygen of the approaching morning.
it was 2 am.

"transcend the medium and the moment, and leave something universal and gut-wrenchingly real "
is the only talent art or i got,
except reading
and listening
and

uh, commenting.

also writing, but he=serious about it often.
i am semi .

As I've mentioned to as many people as possible, SYTYCD is the best show on television. I love it. Frankly, I don't think the quality of dancing and dancers this year was as good as last or the year before...but they were damned good anyway.

This particular dance, was a Tyce DiOreo special...danced to perfection by Sasha and Kent.

Glad there are others who feel about the show the way I do.

f.

Gosh, and I thought the dancers were absolutely wonderful this year, Frank--technically astounding, and I think that's left some people cold because as one of the judges said, technique can be kinda cold. But I'm glad we agree on that dance! And the show!

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Rated for never watch the show but glad I didn't miss this :).

I watch when I can. It's a show with spectacle and, as with this, quite often a real-life -ibe that you don't see elsewhere on tele-ision. (Sorry about my lacking a lr between u and w...need new keyboard...accepting donations...)

The WALL was everything.

Walls are often "everything," Midwest, that's true. Literally and...creatively...and emotionally...

I was sobbing most of the night. These kids are phenomenal. I was a dancer in my youth. They make it look easy because they are so good at performance, but I am in awe of the talent on that show this year. I never miss it either. I am delighted that dance is getting so much exposure. It is sublimely capable of moving one to tears.

Lezlie

The WALL was everything.

The WALL was spectacular.

My favorite (still my favorite) of all time was a dance with Twitch and Katee...using a door as a prop.

Not sure how they got that WALL so damn firm, but they sure did!

So right...just tears streaming watching this. We watch this show avidly and somehow missed this routine. Hubby and I just watched this here, on your blog and fought for the tissue! Sasha is transformative and gifted beyond measure. All of these dancers floor me with their talent and creative expression through their movement that flows form an undefinable sense and grace. Loved this!

Wow. Thanks, Keka! Amazing- and I'm sending the link to someone who, I know, will LOVE it!
♥R

Cathy and Fusun...thanks for that--and Fusun I hope your friends isn't caught in a situation that makes this dance relevant just now. I unknowingly upset a friend whose relationship is teetering on the brink, but...the dance gave her some unexpected insights and she's actually really glad she saw it. That's the power of dance, to be sure!

And...I don't want to forget that the amazing Meshell Ndegeocello is also a HUGE part of the impact of this, isn't she? That song is one of my favorites--hauntingly sad and spot on...emotionally...

I never miss it either Keka. And that dance above was one of the best ever. I agree with Frank about the one with Twitch and Katee...using a door as a prop.

Amazing.

Amazing.

I want her (Sasha) to win, but think Melanie will win. And in a way it's fine because Sasha won a million times... I don't know how contrversial this might sound, but to me the socio-political stratum is amazing and it's also clear that Melanie's family is really wealthy. I have been wondering about an African-American woman with a mohawk dancing against Melanie - who is stupendous, but comes from an entirely different and privileged background. She's amazing, but I am so sick of her "grin", and feel like there is a bias towards her.
Sasha is on her way to an amazing career no matter what - as are Tadd and Marko. But Sasha is going to go so far with this opportunity.
I'm not sure I want to bring up the subject of race...but I do feel it's a competition between "fierce, warrior" and the stupid grin. Constantly making the black woman contestant into some highly exotic "other" really bother me. I think she has had to combat that from the begining - and I don't know why she was labeled in a way that anyone with a sense of history would allow the judges to get away with it. Is it really fierce (black) as opposed to baby tears and lyricism (white)?

I've thought about the "exotic other" a lot...and I think I understand why Sasha was "cast" as a warrior princess. I honestly think it's what she projects naturally, as much as Melanie's sweet WASPish image is what she projects naturally. And I am actually relieved to see a black female dancer move beyond hip hop. She has broken a mold that only black males have been able to get past thus far, I think--I'll have to really go back through the seasons--I wasn't as enthralled with a couple, so I may have missed someone. But ...I think she's something entirely new for the show: a black Sonia Tayeh, who has a huge future in dance.

So in the end, I don't think the contest is really between the fiercest and the "bubbliest." Melanie is amazing and as that one solo proved...she's legitimately a couple of rungs above most--only Sasha is her equal. She can't do disco or hip hop or anything "street," but then Sasha sucks at ballroom and Broadway, pretty much. They're just very different dancers, and I've been really impressed at the reception Sasha has received this year. I think it took a while, but the audience began to realize late in the game that she was not a fluke, and also, that she wasn't an "exotic other." She became a top contender despite the Melanie campaign, and I was delighted to see that happen in this country right now.

I know she probably won't win. But...as you said, she won over and over and over and over again, every time she stepped on that stage and refused to be anything other than...Sasha. I adore that woman. And I KNOW we'll be seeing her doing more than dancing behind some pop star. I think she's headed, as Nigel said, for a big company that will put all that talent to work!

Thanks so much for your reply! I get really emotionally involved with SYTYCD - because of the levels of talent and discipline. (American Idol does nothing for me, nor do any other reality shows.) So, I have been reading, although not participating in, the SYTYCD message boards and have seen/read some really thinly masked racist comments. Thus, my rant above!
I'm content knowing each of the top four dancers is going on to a brilliant career, and Sonya's adoration of her is just one example of how far she will go. (Did you know Sonya grew up in a strict Muslim family?!)
I watched the video you posted - last week, during the show (which I tivo) THREE TIMES IN A ROW, sobbing the whole time.
And that's why I love the show.
Also, I feel somehow lighter and more flexible after watching...a very false reaction, but nonetheless, these extraordinary dancers make me move a bit more lightly through the world.
We should email each other tonight...!!!

aim, be SURE to post your views or PM me here--it's going to be such an emotional roller coaster. I even wish Tadd had a chance--I just love him for totally different reasons (NOT the body, but he IS beautiful) than I love the others. I think that he's an extraordinary kid, as they all are, and it's so hard to think of any of them "losing" tonight.

I watch that video often, still--Sasha and Kent. It transcends TV. It's timeless and universal, and I hope it's recognized by the Emmys and the dance community in general, in some way. It deserves to be seen and it celebrated.

well...I'm not upset. I still think Sasha was mischaracterized, but they both are so supremely gifted and talented. I like Sasha's long, lean lines, but I didn't vote! Tadd is so charming and Marko is so elegant. I thought it was great to see the two Asian boys at the end, and loved that they joked about it.
Sigh. The problem is I will tread more heavily on earth without my favorite show and the extraordinary things the dancers do.
It was good to see Sasha's number with Twitch again.
I loved that any false competition between Sasha and Melanie was taken away by their love and respect for each other.
And I will follow all of the careers of these brilliant young dancers .

I was sad that one of my all time favorites, Legacy, didn't dance as an all star, although I saw him in the audience last week! oh well, back to earth...what a great season and I'm so glad to share it with you!
I love Sasha!

I'm still a little verklempt, so I shall be brief, aim. I will MISS THESE CHILDREN SOOOOOO MUCH! Bless them--and Jess, who was my absolute favorite despite all the discouraging words throughout (next to Sasha), showed us why he should've been in the finale, too, tonight.

And I got to see Neil again, too. Hubba, hubba...

Anticlimax though it was...seeing all those dances again...wow. WOW.

What will I do with my Wednesdays and Thursdays now? Sigh....

like you, i've watched this show every year since its first summer. and love, love it still. sasha and kent were graceful and glorious and it doesn't help that i also love meshell ndegeocello's album 'Bitter' ('Comfort Woman' too) which 'fool of me' is on.

Renatta...I love me some Ndegeocello! And that song was just...perfect. Now that it's over, I think all of those kids are going to be just fine, win or..."lose." Nobody lost. And the audience was the biggest winner this year. Wow...