SYTYCD: Phoenix Rising

So You Think You Can Dance: "Auditions #2"

SYTYCD Season 6 auditions in Phoenix.

Day 1:

• Brandon ("Shorty") and Demetrio ("Biggie") almost ran into an elk on the drive to Phoenix from Oklahoma!
• Mary just cannot contain herself while Biggie and Shorty are performing. She's just cackling like a...(what kind of animal cackles?). Good for Nigel and Mia for sending them through to choreography! Shorty at least certainly seemed like he should get the chance to give it a try.
• Sasha Mallory auditioned for Season 4 and is back with her family. Her audition number is adorable--she's working with her music and not just showing us every trick she knows, but when she did do the fancy moves, they looked fantastic.
• Katie Muth is wearing plaid and Nigel says she has both performance and technique.
• Ellie Soto is going to Vegas as well.
• Allison Becker was diagnosed with Spinal Meningitis as a child and is deaf as a result. And she's really quite a good dancer and displays more musicality than a lot of the dancers who can hear the music. I liked her jumps and her lines.
• Now Mary's crying about her cousin who died as a young woman. I hope Tyce doesn't find out about that--he'll create a dance about it just to make Mary cry again.
• Here are the good same-sex ballroom dancers Willem and Jacob who recently won a gold medal at the same-sex ballroom championships (I missed the official name). Now the judges all love same-sex ballroom--at least Mary and Mia do. And Nigel does now too. In any event, Willem is super-cute.
• Jonathan Naroba is dancing with two sticks. He's not the world's best dancer, but his audition is pretty much cracking me up. I liked the "I Am a Disco Dancer" music. They should bring him along to do a Bollywood number though, because I think he could handle it.
• It's Pasha!!!!!!!! (And Anya!)
• Brandon isn't through to Vegas (he did a decent job though).
• Allison, Jacob, Willem and 12 others are going to Vegas.

Day 2:

• Jarvis is the most excited person ever. Literally. This kid hyped up. Mia's got an expression like 'it's too early early for this much enthusiasm.' I truly believe that Jarvis could dance like that for hours on end. Mia's right, Jarvis is sunshine. It's nice that he realizes that he's "on another planet." I don't know if I could handle Jarvis displaying this much energy for the course of an entire season, but he looks like a fun guy to hang out with for a half hour or so.
• Brandon Gordon and Nicole Peterson: not really sure how to describe this routine. She was wearing a tutu and striped socks.
• Basically, the theme of the second day was that there were a lot of really strange dancers.
• Kelsey White is not strange, however. She seems to be pretty much the typical blond girl contemporary dancer and looks pretty good but not spectacular. She admits to being abducted by aliens once and Nigel walks out. The judges send her through to choreo.
• Jonathan "Legacy" Perez is a b-boy, and he's pretty darn fantastic. He can whirl himself around on his shoulders/head like you wouldn't believe. He assisted Lauren to choreograph last season. Mia says he's "real stupid" (which is a good thing).
• Oh no! Jarvis collapsed! I guess one person cannot sustain so much excitement for so long.
• Kelsey isn't through to Vegas, but she's close and the judges want her to come back. Five unnamed other dancers are going to Vegas however, and they're excited about it (not as excited as Jarvis would have been, but close).

Next week: Boston. With Tyce (Yea. And by "yea" I mean "boo.")