So You Think You Can Dance is back again, and tonight kicks off the auditions that will take place in New York, Miami, LA, Denver, Memphis, and Seattle. The first stop will be New York City.
Maksim Kapitannikov is dancing with Fayina from season 3. Nigel liked that there wasn’t anything false about the routine. Mary found it hard to not watch Fayina, but Maksim’s good on his own. He moves on to the choreography.
Nobuya Nagahama believes he’s the Japanese hip hop Madonna, or something. Nigel compares him to Hilty and Bosch, which is apparently a good thing, but he fears that he won’t be able to do anything other than locking. Nobuya responds that he doesn’t like to do any other kind of dancing. Wrong show, then, dude. He’ll be doing the choreography.
Lauren Gottlieb from season three is doing the choreography for those who have advanced to that round.
Maksim advances to Vegas. Nobuya also advances.
Arielle Taylor went to Vegas in season 3 when she was still in high school. Nigel thinks she’s great and hopes she’s learned to not contain herself and instead use the whole stage. She’s got a golden ticket.
Thomas Martin will be dancing bolero with his partner. When he was younger, he was the six-time national men’s baton twirling champion, which he says fully convinced it’s true. Mary calls it basic beginning bronze level dancing. She’s being kind.
Mina Estrina and Igor Zabrodin do Latin ballroom dancing. They will do a piece of their chacha with a secret trick at the end, in which he spins her around in circles for an impressive amount of time. Nigel thinks they make a great couple and look fabulous. Nice style, good feet, good arms and hands. Mary screams. How will they do without each other as partners? They will stick around for the choreography.
Kellen Stancil is dancing with an umbrella. It’s bad luck to have one of those things open indoors, but it works for Kellen, who’s got a good story to go along with the dance. The umbrella represents his aunt, who he recently lost. He gets a ticket to Vegas.
Chimezie Nwosu, who probably doesn’t want people to call him Chikezie, is a hip hop dancer. The choreography is a lot of fun. He will be back for the choreography.
Igor goes to Vegas, but Mina won’t be joining him. Chimezie will also go to Vegas.
From New York, they head to the mountains of Denver. Sonya Tayeh joins Nigel and Mary.
Kayla Radomski lives with her grandparents to save money so she can take the expensive dance lessons. Nigel says she brought everything that could be asked of her. Not much he didn’t like. Sonya can’t say enough good things. Kayla is going to Vegas.
Misha Belfer and Mitchel Kibel are same sex ballroom dancing partners. Mitchel, who says he’s straight, whereas Misha is gay, used to have a female dancing partner, but it didn’t work out, so now it’s raining men. The routine looks good until Mitch trips and falls on his partner. Nigel doesn’t know what to say, and he’s a bit of a homophobe. Just dancing alone, though, he thinks they’re both good. Mary thinks the technique needs a lot of work because they switch in and out of lead and not lead. The judges want to see them dancing with girls.
Mitchel has been cut, and Misha has been as well.
Allison Moist is apparently auditioning to play the cowardly lion in Star Wars: The Musical. She’s light years away from where she needs to be.
Elias Holloway is popping with his brother, who will probably be on the show again when he’s old enough. Nigel found it extremely entertaining. Mary calls it about the cutest thing she’s seen, and the camera will love him. He’s going to choreography.
Natalie Reid was cut on the final day of Vegas last year, as her roommate Katee Shean advanced despite admitting to being a quitter. It’s pretty obvious she will be advancing straight back there again. Sonya, who was jumping up and down during the performance, is speechless. Mary knows she will go the distance this time.
Brandon Bryant was also cut on the final day of Vegas, losing out to Gev Manoukian. As with Natalie, he will obviously sail through. Mary’s in tears after the performance.
Elias has been cut because he needs more training, but he will be back next year.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Episode 2, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.