So You Think You Can Dance Best Routines
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Get aboard the Hot Tamale Train — because we're celebrating xv years of So You Retrieve Y'all Can Trip the light fantastic showstoppers.
SYTYCD debuted a decade and a half ago — with more than 21 one thousand thousand viewers tuning into the show's series premiere on July 20, 2005 — and has since presented the talents of hundreds of young performers hoping to become "America's favorite dancer."
The reality contest had to call off its 17th season amid this twelvemonth'due south pandemic crisis, only at to the lowest degree we can relive some of the greatest dances from seasons past. Here are our picks for some of the best dances of SYTYCD'due south run and then far.
Flavour two: Benji & Heidi's "Black Mambo"
Season 2 victor Benji Schwimmer and his cousin Heidi Groskreutz nailed what choreographer Alex Da Silva called "the fastest mambo y'all're e'er gonna see."
Flavour 2: Travis & Heidi'south "Calling You"
Season ii runner-up Travis Wall, who has since get an SYTYCD choreographer and earned nine back-to-back Emmy nominations, benched the competition with his and Groskreutz'due south emotional "Calling You" routine.
Flavour 3: Lacey & Danny's "Hip Hip Chin Mentum"
Benji's younger sister Lacey did the Schwimmer name proud—aslope the late, great Danny Tidwell—with this energetic samba.
Season four: Mark & Chelsie's "Haemorrhage Dearest"
Married choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo scored an Emmy nomination for Mark Kanemura and Chelsea Hightower's hip-hop routine. (There's a reason this clip has racked upwards more 1 million views on YouTube.)
Flavour iv: Joshua and Katee's "No Air"
The D'umos struck gold again that aforementioned season with this lyrical hip-hop number, with Season four winner Joshua Allen portraying a soldier going back to war and Katee Shean playing his distraught partner.
Flavor 5: Kayla & Kupono's "Gravity"
Kūpono Aweau personified the addiction haunting Kayla Radomski's character in this unforgettable contemporary routine from Mia Michaels.
Season 7: Allison & Alex's "Hallelujah"
With choreography by SYTYCD MVP Sonya Tayeh, Allison Holker and Alex Wong make Jeff Buckley's comprehend of "Hallelujah" even more heartbreaking.
Season 8: Sasha & tWitch'due south "Misty Blue"
Season eight runner-up Sasha Mallory and returning all-star Stephen "tWitch" Dominate broke through their characters' breakfast-time ennui with this hip-hop routine—set to a classic rails from dejection singer Dorothy Moore.
Flavor 8: Melanie & Neil'south "Total Eclipse of the Centre"
Flavour 8 winner Melanie Moore and Neil Haskell leapt into SYTYCD glory with this gravity-defying gimmicky routine. Even Lady Gaga was gaga most it!
Season nine: Lindsay & Cole's "Unstoppable"
"Unstoppable," indeed! Lindsay Arnold and Cole Horibe offered 1 of the best pasodoble routines judge Nigel Lythgoe had ever seen on the show.
Season 10: Jasmine & Condolement's "Run the World"
Who run the globe? Dancers Jasmine Harper and Comfort Fedoke, for starters, but too the choreographers fans know and love equally Nappytabs.
Season 10: Tucker & Robert's "Medicine"
Tucker Knox and Robert Roldan brought everyone to tears with this contemporary routine choreographed by Wall—particularly considering both dancers got their own second chances after surviving automobile crashes that could have ended their careers.
Season eleven: Zack and Amy's "Europe, After the Pelting"
Tayeh gave another stunning routine in Season 11, choreographing this tribute to a tardily friend, a routine performed with amazing athleticism by Zack Everhart and Season 10 winner Amy Yakima.
Season xiii: J.T. and Robert's "The Mirror"
During SYTYCD's "Adjacent Generation" season, ten-yr-old runner-up J.T. Church mirrored the aforementioned Roldan for a gimmicky dance that had fans seeing double.
Season 14: All-Stars' "Foreign Fruit"
Horrified by the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Wall choreographed a group routine ready to the haunting "Strange Fruit" embrace past Nina Simone. "This one really made me feel ill, physically sick, while watching it," Lythgoe afterward told Trip the light fantastic Spirit. "I had such a powerful emotional response to the choreography."
Source: https://www.tvinsider.com/942231/so-you-think-you-can-dance-best-performances/
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