So You Think You Can Dance: Top 20 Revealed

**Disclaimer: Sorry if names are spelled wrong. We just wrote them down as we heard them**

Someday we’re going to learn to blog in a more timely fashion.

We should probably start off by saying we’re happy with the Top 20. It should be a really great season. We think we like the new format and that the Top 20 were revealed in a performance show. This usually happens, but so many of the Top 20 were people we hadn’t seen before, even through Vegas week. However, 2 dancers that we did see during auditions and were super sad to see go were Patty Anne Miller (the style consultant from Berkeley) and Virgil “Lil O.” We had really fallen in love with both of them.

First dance of the show: Ricky, Miranda, Melanie, and Sasha doing a Stacey Tookey contemporary. Jess immediately said, “Oh, how I’ve missed her!” regrading Stacey’s choreography. This routine was beautiful. We think Ricky is phenomenal. He seems nice and humble and is a joy to watch. Does anyone else think Sasha and Ricky look like siblings? We agree with Cat and we “wish it could be like this every week.” It was so nice to see the dancers free of worries and competition.

Next, Chris, Wadi, Tadd, and Robert doing a Dave Scott hip hop. We loved the dance and are happy with who made it, but we really wish Virgil had have been there, too. Robert looks a little like Legacy, don’t you think?

Then we saw Iveta doing a ballroom with Pasha, choreographed by Jason Gilkison. We’re happy she made it, and she looked incredible with Pasha.

After that, Jordan, Missy, Clarissa, and Marko did a Jazz routine by Sonya Tayeh. Wendy likes her choreography more than Jess does, but we both really liked this routine. Strong dancers who looked great together.

Next up was Jess and Nick with a broadway/tap routine choreographed by Chris Scott. First off, let’s talk about this choreographer. Who is this guy and where did he come from? Seriously incredible. And he’s super cute, which is a bonus, right? This routine was awesome, highlighting these dancers perfectly. We don’t remember seeing much of Nick in Vegas, but we are really impressed with him. It’s amazing that he’s THAT good at tapping but so clearly well-rounded in other areas. And as you know, we’ve loved Jess since auditions.

When we heard that Travis Wall had choreographed the next routine to one of our current-favorite bands, Passion Pit, we were psyched. But sadly, we didn’t love the routine done by Ryan, Kaitlyn, Mitchell, Ashley, and Alexander. Part of the problem was that Ryan is probably our least favorite dancer in the Top 20, and she was in a distracting black costume surrounded by better dancers in muted white. There seemed to be too many dancers on the stage, and unison movement wasn’t in unison. That combined with our eye being constantly drawn to Ryan made it difficult to really take in the choreography.

We were very happy to see the Guys and Girls routines. The dancers kept calling Chris Scott’s Guys routine a hip hop, but it was actually this masterful combination of absolutely everything. We can’t remember the last routine we watched that was so captivating from beginning to end. The way he used the doors to take dancers “off stage” made it impossible to pinpoint one dancer’s strengths over another’s weaknesses. We can’t say it enough: we LOVED this routine.

The Girls dance by Sonya was also extremely entertaining. It was very Sonya. We just wish they would have done the lighting on the stage differently, because the costumes seemed to get lost in the matching colored background.

The final Top 20 routine was also very impressive. Like we said at the beginning, this is going to be a great season. We haven’t picked our favorites yet, but I’m sure that will come this week when the competition gets started.

Do you have any favorites? Was there anyone from Vegas that you thought should have made the Top 20 over someone that did? Let us know!