So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 5

The top 11 were determined in So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 4.

Unable to figure out what to do with this extra night and rather than skip a week or extend the audition shows, Fox has decided instead to show us the top 11 dancers in their own styles. Each contestant is granted 11 seconds to sum themselves up. We will also find out who the all stars are in the twist that hopefully was worth it.

Lauren Froderman & Kent Boyd
with Mark from season 5 & Kathryn from season 6
Song: Paris Is Burning by St. Vincent
Choreographer: Travis Wall
Adam: Yes! I told you so. Kent is this good. Lauren is still amazing.

Alexie Agdeppa & Melinda Sullivan
with Allison from season 2 and Lauren from season 3
Song: There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This from Sweet Charity (Original Broadway Cast)
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Nigel: Sometimes I couldn’t tell the difference between who was the all star and who was the competitor.

Jose Ruiz
with Twitch and Comfort from season 4 and Dominic from season 3
Song: Din Daa Daa (District 78 Remix) by George Kranz
Choreographer: Tabitha & Napoleon Dumo
Adam: Fantastic. Representing a big style so strong.

Christina Santana
with Anya and Pasha from season 3
Song: Work (Freemasons Radio Edit) by Kelly Rowland
Choreographer: Jason Gilkison
Nigel: Fantastic but slightly lazy feet.

Alex Wong & Billy Bell
with Ade from season 5
Song: This Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Daylight by Dinah Washington/Max Richter
Choreographer: Mia Michaels

Adechike Torbert, Ashley Galvan, & Robert Roldan
with Neil from season 3 and Courtney from season 4
Song: Freak by Estelle feat. Kardinal Offshall
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh

Next week the show begins for real.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 6, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 4

On the final night of auditions in So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 3, we saw Ida Saki and Nicole Knudson, then wasted time in Nashville. Then we headed to Vegas and the cuts began.

Ida Saki has received a final warning: don’t suck again. Rather than bother going to the next round, she has decided to quit instead. Good riddance then.

Tyce Diorio is now taking the contestants through the broadway routine.

Adrian Lee advances after flicking a chick’s dress. Lauren Froderman is also going forward. Melinda Sullivan, Jose Ruiz, and Alexi Agdeppa are, too.

Now it’s time for Ida to face the judges. She denies that the negative criticism has impacted her decision. Nigel isn’t any happier than could be expected.

When we get to day 2, 47 dancers remain, and they are broken into groups. Each group chooses a style at random, and they will have to choreograph a routine to the song on their CD.

Anthony Burrell, Giselle Peacock, and Lauren are in the first group, and the judges love their routine.

Group 2 features, well, a bunch of rambled names that I guess they’ll be mentioned again if they actually matter. Whatever the case, the group is divided. After a difficult night and no sleep, they perform. The judges are unimpressed but will be allowing them through anyway.

Then we quickly fast forward through the other groups. Apparently, a 2 hour show is not enough time.

The final group of the day includes Lexie Contursi, Billy Bell, Ryan Ramirez, and Adechike Torbert. The high expectations the judges have are shattered. After pretending they’re going to cut some of them, the judges opt to keep them all, then throw them off the stage.

Travis Wall is in charge of the contemporary routine, and then everybody is split into trios to perform.

Cristina Santana and Giselle are completely out of their element. Cristina is especially worried because she’s dancing with two contemporary dancers, but she does just fine. Giselle, however, seems to be dancing a different dance than the other two, and she has been eliminated.

Nicole Knudson (sporting her Marge Simpson hair again) has also been cut.

Alex Wong remains a judge favorite, in spite of his lacking contemporary performance. Anthony, sporting an injury since he’s gotten there, continues to impress. Kent Boyd receives praise as well. He’s starting to think that maybe he can make it.

24 dancers have made it to the end of Vegas, and the judges will be choosing from them for their top 10. They are granted one final solo opportunity. Afterward, they head home to their families, and every one of them will be receiving a visit or phone call from the judges, letting them know whether they are in or out, after they double talk and try to fake them out.

Eliminated
Adrian Lee
Anthony Burrell
Anthony Kim
Bridget Krause
Cheryl Smith
Chris Cole
DJ Smart
Jocelyn Orley
Katie Muth
Lexie Contursi
Missy Morelli
Ryan Ramirez
Serge Ornick

Top 5 Girls
Alexie Agdeppa
Ashley Galvan
Cristina Santana
Lauren Froderman
Melinda Sullivan

Top 5 6 Guys
Adechike Torbert
Alex Wong
Billy Bell
Jose Ruiz
Kent Boyd
Robert Roldan

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 5, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.

America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 3

Dallas proved to be a very slow night in America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 2, but we did meet Taylor Matthews and CJ Dippa.

Tonight we head to New York City. If you can make it there, well, you can make it there.

The first group of the day must have every light in the building turned off before they come on stage. Fighting Gravity dance in the dark. Kinda. None of them have any dancing experience. They’re just frat brothers. Due to how unique the act is, they’re through to the next round.

Gino and Tony Antanies are father and son singers. They sing about how they don’t wanna be all by themselves any more. They will if they keep singing. Despite the high degree of sucking, the audience enjoys the act. Sharon says yes, but the other two make the sensible choice.

John comes out on stage dressed like, well, I don’t know what he’s supposed to be dressed like. Anyway, he calls himself Prince Poppycock. His voice is good, but this gimmick is too distracting to take him very seriously. The judges are pleasantly surprised.

The Peek-A-Boo Revue aren’t wearing a great deal of clothing, so obviously they’re going to Vegas.

Jia-Yi He plays harmonicas. 4 of them to be precise.

The Danger Committee toss knives and other assorted sharp objects around the stage.

Mike B and Bobby Dio are a boy band (On Repeat) consisting of one singer and one rapper. They look the part, but that’s as far as it goes.

Antonio Restivo is a fire performer illusionist. Do not try this at home. He surrounds himself with chicks with torches and starts playing with fire. He concludes by making one of the girls appear in a box that had been flaming. Howie would buy a ticket to see this in Vegas.

Doogie Horner is a comedian in need of a makeover. The audience starts booing him immediately, and they’re out for blood. He shouts over them and finally wins them over, more or less. Howie and Sharon want to see more.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 2

Unable to figure out how long she has to cook food for, Stacey was the first person eliminated in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 1.

The chefs are awakened at 5 in the morning by a loud alarm. For the team challenge, they will be working in pairs, preparing four different egg dishes in 5 minutes: poached, sunny side up, scrambled, and soft boiled. Siobhan will be on her own because the ladies are one person short. Autumn gets her back and helps make most of her eggs.

Nilka and Maria go first. Their soft boiled egg is perfect. They also score with all their other eggs.

Salvatore and Michael are the second team. Their scrambled egg is stuck to the plate after Salvatore put it back when Scott told him it was runny. His soft boiled egg is hard. Mikey, however, comes through with both of his eggs.

Siobhan goes next. How long does she cook soft boiled eggs? She doesn’t know. Her teammates helped her, and she blames Autumn for pressuring her into making her help her. That’s why she only managed to cook two poached eggs. The poached egg is worth a point at least.

Ed and Jay are next. Ramsay doesn’t even have to taste the poached egg to know it’s perfect. They also score with their soft boiled and sunny side up eggs. That ties the teams at 5 each.

Autumn and Fran are the next team. Autumn’s soft boiled egg is delicious. Fran’s scrambled egg, however, is not good. Nor is their sunny side up egg. Who poached their egg? Siobhan. Well, there goes another point lost.

Scott and Andrew score 3 points to take the 8-6 lead.

Jamie and Holli get all 4 points, including 1 for the best scrambled egg of the morning.

Jason and Ben need 3 points to win. Their first egg is bland. Their second two eggs score. The final egg is good. Men win the challenge.

For their reward, the blue team will be going on a helicopter ride. This presents an opportunity for us to hear more of Salvatore’s accent. I wonder if this guy even knows where Italy is.

As for the ladies, they will have to gut, clean, and filet a huge tuna. While they wait for delivery, Siobhan can go upstairs and cry some more.

Fran and Scott will be working with tuna tartar for the night and serving it tableside.

Salvatore can’t name a dessert. He can leave now.

Autumn has added salt to the water, far too much salt.

After some studying, Sal is back to name a dessert. He gets them all right except for the one in Italian.

Mikey’s rice is undercooked. He disagrees with Ramsay’s outlook on risotto. After 43 minutes, he finally makes it right. So it seems. That is until the customer rejects it and asks for it to be cooked more.

Once again Autumn wants to help Siobhan. This ends about as well as the last time.

Nilka’s lost on the garnish station.

Salvatore’s first wellington is cooked perfectly. Jason’s chicken won’t be coming up any time soon, though.

The women seem to be hitting their stride, but Jamie’s salmon is not up to par.

Over in the blue kitchen, they’ve cooked potato soup. Andrew starts to stand up to Ramsay. Stick it to the man. Not one to allow someone to stand up for themselves, Ramsay tells Andrew to get lost. Since there is not enough room in the kitchen for both Ramsay’s ego and Andrew, he has decided to quit the show.

There will be no winning team tonight. Both teams have to come to a consensus on one person.

Jason’s name is brought up first by the guys. His suggestion is Salvatore. Mikey agrees this, and he’s surprised that nobody noticed he couldn’t cook risotto.

Nilka is the target for the women. Maria wants to get rid of Autumn. Her reason: oversalted water. Really?

The women have nominated Autumn. Jason has been nominated by the men.

Once they step forward, Ramsay asks who the worst cook on the red team is. Not Autumn. What a stupid nomination then. Because Jamie is the worst chef (again the women follow Maria’s lead on this), she is nominated, while Autumn is now safe.

With three people having been nominated, surely that’s enough to choose from. So the person leaving Hell’s Kitchen is… Mikey. He backed his team up two services in a row, and they should have nominated him. At least he’s still got his Hell’s Kitchen tattoo.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

The Bachelorette Season 6 Episode 3

Three more guys were sent home in The Bachelorette Season 6 Episode 2: Chris H (not Harrison), the remaining Tyler, and “dangerous” Craig M.

The first date is an individual date, which goes to Roberto. They’re going by helicopter, another excuse for the producers to get Ali to jump in someone’s lap. They land on a building. That building is not the one they’re having dinner on, however. Instead, they will have to climb across the wires to get there. Like this isn’t the most manufactured drama ever. When they get half way across, Roberto decides that would be the appropriate place for a first kiss, and she really doesn’t have a choice because him holding her is the difference between her staying up there or falling. Roberto’s first language is Spanish, and he’s traveled to various countries learning a little bit of a couple other languages. After dinner, they cuddle, although I don’t know what base he ended up getting to. After that, he gets a rose.

Kirk, John, Chris N, Frank, Jonathan, Craig, Justin, Jesse, and Chris L get the group date. They drive to the middle of nowhere, where they come upon some Bare Naked Ladies, who will be shooting a music video with them. Unsurprisingly, most of these scripts say kiss. First up is Frank getting slapped, repeatedly. Now that’s entertainment. John C gets to do a bathtub scene. Too bad he hops in and she hops right out, then on to scene three. Jonathan will be getting his first kiss with Ali. This falls apart quickly. After Ali feels sorry for him when he breaks down crying, though, she makes sure to give him a good kiss. Eventually, they move on to the bedroom. Kirk and Ali seem to have forgotten they’re filming a music video. The director yelling cut twice isn’t stopping them. You’d think Ali would be conscious that there are 8 other guys around, but she doesn’t really seem to care.

Once they’re done shooting the video, they go to a wrap party. This is the first time Chris L has been able to spend alone with her outside the house, which gives him the opportunity to talk about his mom having passed away. Jonathan wants to talk about the train wreck of the scene they had. The weatherman may not have the chance to get his first real kiss with Ali, but Kirk jumps right into it, in full view of everyone again. Frank breaks them up by diving in the water. The other guys join in, but Justin’s stuck watching. It goes without saying that Kirk is the one who gets the rose.

One of the guys foolishly mentions that Ali’s right down the road. That gives Justin a plan. He’s going to hobble down the road and visit her. Don’t get hit by a car, dude. Ali is shocked. Good shocked, not creepy stalker shocked (though she does call him a little crazy, which she likes). He brings some photos with him and talks about his parents’ divorce. When he’s talking to the boys later that day, Justin says he’d give up everything for a family, and we seem to be getting genuine emotion from him, although there is a question whether this is natural or just part of his wrestling character.

The final date of the night is an individual date for Hunter. Kasey, Steve, and Ty end up dateless. Hunter’s going to have to wait for a while because Justin’s stealing his time. Jerk thing to do on both Ali’s and Justin’s parts. The plan for the evening is to go back to Ali’s house. No distractions, just staying home. Hunter realizes he’s more of a slow paced guy, but they don’t have a lot of time to kill here. Even if he does manage to salvage this date, being slow doesn’t work with this process because of its ridiculous nature. After a couple hours, Ali decides she does not believe there’s a romantic connection there, so Hunter will not be receiving a rose.

Chris L continues to bond with Ali over their Massachusetts connection.

Having not had a scheduled date for this week, Steve has decided to set up a picnic at the house. His opening act is to get the champagne open without injuring anybody.

Ty’s talking about Justin behind his back. When he turns around, he realizes that he was actually just talking about him in front of his face. After this conversation, Roberto wants to discuss his Justin problem. He knows Justin went over to her house, right? Well, he does now.

There goes Justin’s plan to keep this all a secret. As if he’s not having enough trouble with these guys already.

Roses
Roberto (individual date)
Kirk (group date)
Chris L
Jesse
Chris N
Ty
Kasey
Craig
Frank
Jonathan
Justin (receiving the rose last, nicely scripted)

Steve and John did not receive roses. Steve is shocked. John is pissed that Justin’s still around.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Bachelorette Season 6 Episode 4, which airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 3

So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 2 stopped in LA and Chicago. In LA, we met Lauren Froderman, Rachel Girma, Christina Santana, Alexi Agdeppa, and Ryan Ramirez. Then we met Kent Boyd and Andrew Phillips in Chicago.

The first stop tonight is Dallas, TX. Tyce Diorio and Toni Redpath join Nigel.

Ida Saki chooses some sleepy music that Tyce loves. Her mom was not allowed to dance because she lived in Iran, but Ida’s dancing for them both. The judges are amazed.

Haylee Durbin started dancing when she was two, but she doesn’t want to be mistaken for a frilly girl. Nigel’s not sure about the style or the stank face. She’ll be going to choreography.

Conor “Scooter Rocket” McLaughlin shows up wearing a helmet. Underneath that helmet is Clay Aiken’s little brother, except he can’t sing despite thinking he can. Seems he also missed the memo that this is a dance show because he’s on skates. Pointless.

Nicole Knudson hopes to one day have hair like Marge Simpson. Tyce says this is the kind of talent that comes along every hundred years. She’s everything and also a bag of chips.

Haylee is eliminated.

Deroccius Harris says he tries to be masculine, sexy, poppy, and jazz handy. He fails at all of those things. Nigel tells him he might make the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.

Marcella Raneri is harboring a dark secret. Her father was born into the mob, and he has since been sent up the river. Now she has to work (as a lingerie model for her mom) so she can dance. Visually stunning, but the dancing is somewhat lacking. She will be heading to choreography.

Jordan Johnson comes from a small town of about 1100 people. He’s struggled with depression and addiction. He’s got some gymnastics background in addition to dance. Nigel likes that he never knows what’s coming. Toni wants him to take that he’s not “traditionally handsome” the right way.

Marcella advances to Vegas.

Nashville, TN is the next stop. I don’t really think of Nashville when I think of dancing. Joey Dowling joins Nigel and Adam.

Faith Looney is doing flamenco with her friend Kelsey. They’re the best of friends, although once they didn’t talk to each other for two and a half hours. Joey almost thought she was making fun of the style.

Shanya Vaughn is bringing everything she’s got. She can keep it. Apparently, she’s on the show so she can be a model. That’s not happening any more than the dancing.

Brian Gaynor is back after doing the robot three years ago. Not much point since we know he’s not going any further, but at least he’s better than what we’ve seen so far from Nashville. Nigel promises him he’ll put his group of three dancers on the show.

With that, the auditions are over, and Vegas week begins. Over 100 dancers have made it there.

The bad news: only 10 people will make it to the top. They will be dancing with all stars as their partners instead of newbies. I’d rather see a top 20.

Billy Bell and Alex Wong have come straight to Vegas. Alex was unable to be in the top 20 because of his contract with a ballet company. Billy was eliminated due to illness. A pair of tough acts to follow.

Anthony Burrell pulled a hamstring but has been cleared to dance by the clinic. Then the axes fall on 26 dancers. He is not one of them.

After the cuts, hip hop with Tabitha Dumo is the first test. Rachel Girma and Jose Ruiz are not used to choreography. Jose seems to be catching on, but Rachel’s stressed out. She has been eliminated. Jose, however, will advance to day 2.

26 more dancers are then eliminated.

Sarah Brinson has injured her back, but she’s going to have to hit the stage with Anthony in the last group of the day. She has been cut, but he will go forward.

Ballroom will be their next test, complete with scary drill sergeant choreographer Toni Redpath. She seemed so sweet as a judge. Now she’s a lunatic.

Jordan Johnson is one of the worst of the day and is eliminated.

Nicole Knudson looks a lot better with her hair down. The judges ask her to dance again without the hair in the way. Anybody wanna be her partner? She manages to get ballroom dancer Serge Ornick to dance with her. Will he help her or overshadow her? Her performance is enough to move on to the next round.

Adechike Torbert has been just barely scraping by at every turn, so the judges give him a chance to dance for his life. With only 10 spots, it seems futile, but it’s enough to survive for one more round.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 2

Howie Mandel made his debut in America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 1, and he was awesome. The acts for the first night included Future Funk, SwingShift Side Show, New Directions Choir, and Michael Grimm.

Tonight we head to Dallas, TX.

ArcAttack play music and then add lightning. 1.21 gigawatts of electricity will be flowing through one of the guys. They’re just hoping they can get through the lame music to the lightning part. Only one buzzer through, and they’re good to go, although Sharon’s still not impressed by the end.

Jeremy Kinison (aka Cut Throat Freak Show) is a “genital daredevil.” This can’t be good. Nick agrees to light the lighter. Jeremy pulls down his pants and sticks them in a bucket. Sharon and Piers buzz. Howie refuses. He wants to see what happens. Go ahead and light it, dude. By the way, please don’t try this at home. Then we hear firecrackers. Nick will take Jeremy’s word that he’s alright down there.

Jenna Adora Somar is a singer/actress/model. When you can’t do any one thing well, might as well say you do three. I love ironic songs with lyrics like “you’re no good.” Sharon would have liked to see a pole. Howie goes off to get some dollars.

The Muttley Crew are 10 rescue dogs living in a dog house on wheels with Bert and Frannie Davis. Individually the dogs may well not have made it through, but there’s something for everyone regardless of what type of dog they like.

Taylor Matthews sings and plays guitar. He does an excellent original version of Somewhere over the Rainbow. Sharon likes him because he’s an odd little thing, in a good way. He’s already getting a marriage proposal from somebody in the audience. Piers loves the voice, the look, and the cheesy grin.

Band director Ray Sanders is playing… a turkey baster. That doesn’t last long.

Ms. Donna twirls flaming Samoan knives. Practicing before the show, she’s already dropping stuff. The audience has been moved from the front rows because she’s half blind. Good news: she hasn’t killed or set anybody on fire. Yet. The judges decide to start hitting buzzers in between ducking. When we get to the point of the whole audience fearing for their lives, Howie hits the third X. Regardless, Piers says yes. Sharon agrees.

CJ Dippa already has a stage name at age 11. He’s a rapper and a player. Piers wants Eminem to move over.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 2

The season opened in So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 1 with stops in New York and Miami. New York brought us Giselle Peacock, Henry Byalikov, and Edward Spots, then Miami showed off Michael Petr, Tyrell Rolle, and Henry Rivera.

Tonight we head to Los Angeles. Nigel is joined by Adam Shankman and Hi Hat (I’m going to assume that’s a nickname).

Lauren Froderman just became legal, so it’s time to start the night off with a little heat. She gets numerous wows from the judges, although Hi Hat would like more of a connection.

Hung Van Lam (aka Hella Hung) looks pretty much like a waste of time. I will bill him for the three minutes of my life he just wasted. Not right for this show. Or any other.

Rachel Girma has been dancing for two weeks. Technically. Her theory is that her 9 years of rhythmic gymnastic training will be sufficient. With that said, she may actually be pretty good, and she is. The judges can’t come up with enough compliments. Whether this translates to other styles remains to be seen, but she’s going to Vegas.

Christina Santana and Pepe Alvarez are back for a second season. She got eliminated in Vegas, while he was just there as her audition partner. Needless to say, Christina is returning to Vegas. The judges were unable to pay attention to Pepe, but he will be going to choreography.

Taylor Costello is the final contestant of the day. Her birth mother was murdered when she was 11, so she was never old enough to meet her, but she was allowed to read what she’d written to her, including that her favorite thing was dancing. Nigel calls her almost possessed, but they find out what drives her, so it makes sense after the explanation. The dancing was good, but it needs some focus. She’s going to choreography.

Pepe has opted to quit. Taylor has been cut.

Alexie Agdeppa is another person who almost made it all the way last season and obviously will be advancing again this year. Nigel tries to fake her out and pretend she’s gotten worse, but he can’t pull off the lie for long. Adam just has one thing to say: she’s going to Vegas.

Melinda Sullivan is a tap dancer who has been a member of Jason Samuels Smith’s company since she was 15. The judges look pretty confused. The dancing doesn’t go with the music at all. Their description is “interesting,” whatever that may mean. She’s going to choreography.

Ryan Ramirez met Mia Michaels when she was younger, which inspired her to keep dancing. Adam calls her very, very, very talented, but she did a very bad thing by not connecting. She’s going to choreography.

Melinda is going to Vegas. Ryan is, too.

Next stop, the windy city of Chicago. Stacey Tookey joins Nigel and Adam.

Kent Boyd is from Wapakoneta, a town with a senior high school class of about 33. But he gets out sometimes. Nigel likes his personality, which he feels was lacking in the dancing. He’s going to choreography.

Andrew Phillips has brought along his fraternal twin Tyler, who was born with spina bifida and is in a wheelchair. He dances every day for his brother. Adam doesn’t think he’s completely grown into his body, but what he does is beautiful and inspiring. Nigel wants to see him go to choreography, although he’s not sure he’s going to Vegas.

Malinda Jacobson is here to show us hick-hop, a cross between hip hop, break dancing, line dancing, and square dancing. Really? Also, she has not brushed her hair lately. This is certainly, uh, unique. Adam suggests changing the channel. Malinda’s explanation: she just needs to work on her nerves.

Adrian Lee has the judges buzzing. Stacey calls him the best contemporary dancer of the day by a long shot.

Kent is going to Vegas. Andrew is as well.

Kellen Borchers is a disaster waiting to happen. His ultimate goal is to earn respect. I know that because he says it four times. Might want to set an alternate goal.

Christopher Gilbert walks on stage with a cane and a very good Urkel look. Adam is refreshed; Stacey is entertained. He’s going to choreography.

Jarrod Mayo shocks the judges. He’s going to Vegas, so his mother is gonna have to cut the cord.

The final dancer for tonight is Jarrell Robinson, who is deaf. He’s extremely musical despite his inability to hear the music, but not quite strong enough for this competition. Inspiring nonetheless.

Christopher is eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 3, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.