So You Think You Can Dance Backstage dipper: Which Solo Was "Horrid"?

Tonight on So You Think You Can Dance we learned that while a extraordinary solo can save a dancer in danger, a totally terrible solo won't necessarily get you sent home if you have previously banked enough "star moments" and sex appeal in the minds of the jury.
We've got the scoop from behind the scenes at SYTYCD that reveals why a "very good" dancer went home in place of the dancer with one of the most unchoreographed and random solos in new memory...

Channing Cooke and Kevin Hunte were eliminated this week, despite a catastrophic solo by Karen Hauer and last week's comprehensive lecture from executive producer Nigel Lythgoe on how the performers always need to dance as if their lives depend on it.

So how bad was Karen? When we talked to judge Mary Murphy afterward, she was still reeling in reaction: "Karen's solo was unpleasant. I'm a ballroom dancer, and she's a ballroom dancer, and after that I shook my head and said, 'I'm not sure what she was doing just now! I didn't even recognize what that was.' " Nonetheless, the judges raved backstage about Karen's earlier star work, especially in her hip-hop with Kevin, and they decided to saved her. (Does anyone else suspect that last season's lack of a breakout personality has led the jury to perhaps slightly overemphasize star quality this season? Perhaps the judges' "producer" tendencies are showing a bit more than is severely smart?)

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Dancing With the Stars outcome: Joanna Krupa Playboy 2009 eliminated

Model Joanna Krupa and her expert partner Derek Hough became the thirteenth couple eliminated from Dancing with the Stars season during previous night's live results demonstrate broadcast on ABC.

Krupa and Hough were eliminated from the contest based on a combination of the judges' scores they had received for the three dances they had performed on Dancing with the Stars' Monday night performance show and the home viewer votes that were cast instantly following the broadcast.

"It's been such an wonderful experience, thank you to the judges," Krupa said following her elimination. "I've grown as a person and thank you for giving me the chance. I had a great partner."

Krupa and Hough had placed second on Monday night's jury leaderboard with 81 out of 90 probable points. They had received 27 out of 30 points for their Viennese waltz, 27 out of 30 points for their cha-cha, and 27 out of 30 points for their salsa.

previous The Osbournes star Kelly Osbourne and her partner Louis van Amstel had finished in third place on the judges' leaderboard and were the other pair still in danger of removal when Krupa and Hough's elimination was revealed, however Dancing with the Stars co-host Samantha Harris had been cautious to note they were not essentially the week's second-lowest ranked couple.

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Backstage at DWTS: Joanna Admits Her outrageous Elimination "Sucks"

That's gonna depart a mark.

In what can only be called the most jaw-dropping removal so far this season on Dancing With the Stars, Joanna Krupa (who Carrie Ann Inaba thought might win) was sent packing previous night.

We were backstage after the show and can tell you Joanna was emotion the sting.

"Being so close, it sucks not being capable to go to the finals," Joanna tells us. "But I guess it is what it is."

Still, part of her saw it coming. "It was a hard competition and I knew that tonight anything could happen, so I was ready for it."

Oh, and you won't consider who she and partner Derek Hough think may win…

They're all about supporting the girl who snatched the finals spot out from below them with her relentless underdog charm: Kelly Osbourne.

"We're absolutely proud of Kelly," Derek told us. "She's grown so much, you just can't assist but love her and root for her."

Derek and Joanna also hinted that they'll be doing much more than just sitting idly by in the viewers for a camera op after that week.

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'So You Think You Can Dance' Top 14 dancers performance

Cat Deeley wore a baked potato-worthy sheath of thwart to see what the top 14 had to give. It was distracting only because it made me starving for some starch. Previously the So You Think You Can Dance judges have been getting exacting about presentation and sharp routines. Sloppiness had cropped up a lot and they lastly broke. They took no prisoners last week with their critiquing. It was a step in the right direction as season 6 actually hasn't been that extraordinary since the elimination rounds began. The fear of being eliminated may hold some performers back, but that cannot continue if they hope to actually shine and survive.


Ashleigh and Jakob: Hip-hop performance

The stories in Ashleigh and Jakob's routines are forever good, but this time Ashleigh contributed similarly. They noted that the "evolution" of their company has gone from seduction, through marriage and now into infidelity. It's attractive that their performances mature as their partnership goes on. They did a kickass hip-hop number that I would've loved to have learned…and been able to execute properly. But I digress - they weren't jointly at all times but the camera angles could've been the culprit. I also am dying to really cheer for Ashleigh for some reason, but this time it's easy to find some strengths (special note, she performed much better). Jakob is just Jakob, always spot on and showing that spark you cannot teach. It didn't hurt that they tore it up to "Whatcha Say" by Jason Derulo (sampled from "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap - yeah the song from "The OC" episode where Marissa shot Trey). She really was the one that maintained my concentration for once - it had to be the fact that she's not an "ugly cryer" and her whole routine focused on her strong emotions of anger and being scorned. Score one for Ashleigh.

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Kelly Osbourne Faces Foot operation

Kelly Osbourne isn’t worried about the agony of overcome on Dancing with the Stars. She’s more worried about the gunfire pains in her feet from a condition that needs surgery.

After her strong performances on Monday night’s show, Kelly revealed that every step of DWTS has been excruciating. “I have flat feet and somewhere in the 25 years of my life, I tore the cartilage in my bulge in both feet,” she said.

Kelly was advised to get an process, but “I said no,” she explains. “I didn’t want to have it because I believe if you start cutting things, you have a entire new set of problems and it wasn’t that bad, so I covenant with it.”

But since she’s been on DWTS, Kelly’s feet have given her more pain. “And essentially, my doctor said, ‘Told you so, told you so. You wouldn’t be [feeling] this if you had had the surgery.’ So I’m going to have to have it after the demonstrate.”

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DWTS: Mya, Kelly and the other dancers

I lovelovelove -- with tinsel on top -- me some Kelly Osbourne.

How gorgeous was she during Monday's semifinals round of Dancing With the Stars? Her hair. Her dancing. Her outfits. Her words.

Who cried with Kelly O? Admit it. ADMIT IT. Makes you want to stick her in your rucksack and take her with you.

Plus, I know I danced to this a little times:





Yes, individuality goes a long way on reality talent shows. (Ask Taylor Hicks.) But if we're talking pure ability, fire, fierceness -- and perfect 10's -- Mya is our girl.
Just based on Monday's trio of near-flawless performances, she's the obvious winner.
Her dancing is similar to WO:



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Tufnell completely relieved Strictly's over

Phil Tufnell has spoken of his assorted emotions after being voted off 'Strictly Come Dancing' on Saturday night. In an interview with The Sun's TV Biz, the 43-year-old cricket celebrity said he "didn't know whether to chuckle or cry" after he and professional partner Katya Virshilas were beaten by Ricky Groves and Erin Boag in the dance-off. He said: "It's a bit of a shame not to be involved, but it's lovely to get back into the swing of usual life. "You get entirely absorbed by it. It is a bit of a relief, tinged with some sorrow. "I don't want to be a expert dancer, so I went in there to enjoy myself.

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World silver medallists Tanith Belbin-Ben Agosto guide Skate America after compulsory ice dance

World silver medallists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto have simply won the compulsory dance portion of Skate America.

The Americans, who took the silver decoration at the 2006 Turin Olympics, scored 39.28 points for the golden waltz Friday.

They were well in front of Russia's Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski at 36.94.
Ice dancing continues with the original dance Saturday and free dance Sunday.

Belbin, who was born in Kingston, Ont., and Agosto have won Cup of China and are on pace to be eligible for next month's Grand Prix Final in Tokyo.

Another U.S. team, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, previously is in the final.

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So You Think You Can Dance: Wake Up dub

Golly Gee! Cat Deeley sure knows how to work a dress. sincerely, I’ve got to tip my hat to her because she was aflame in that black number. We got a small more screen time with her since the judges were so chatty this week. The Dizzy Feet basis needs a shout out for just getting two whole minutes of promo during the opening.

I now know everyone who will ever perform at and/or attend their November 29th event. I’m a small bitter since all of season five, crews from ABDC and Channing Tatum (yum) and wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum from Step Up will be there. And after all their praising, I sort of want to be there now. Yes So You Think You Can Dance, your brainwashing was a sensation.

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'Dancing With the Stars' outcome November 10: Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff out

Aaron Carter has zipped during his last quickstep.

The pop singer, who continually gushed about how much he loved being on "Dancing With the Stars," had his bubble burst after voters cast him out despite having earned on the whole higher scores from the judges than Kelly Osbourne, who made the semi-finals.

The other couples left to compete for the mirrored ball medal include Mya and Dmitry Chaplin, Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson, and Joanna Kruppa and Derek Hough.

Aaron had developed something of a father son connection with judge Len Goodman, who made what he called a first time report after Aaron was tossed.

Telling Aaron he'd grown so much over the course of the contest, Len told him, "If you were my son, I'd be so arrogant of you."

Aaron and partner Karina Smirnoff had frequently impressed the judging panel with their faster dances. Their 1990s version of the samba earned 9s from all three jury on Monday night as each pair did a Latin dance set in a different decade. "I thought you were striking it," Carrie Ann Inaba told the pair.

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Groovy baby! Kelly Osbourne dances amazing Sixties jive in a psychedelic green wig

Style chameleon Kelly Osbourne has dyed her curls an array of colours in new years, but she's never risked green hair.

Appearing on American talent show Dancing With The Stars previous night, the actuality TV star tried out a neon lime-coloured wig.

The 25-year-old was dressed in a black and green ensemble for her Sixties-themed jive with expert partner Louis Van Amstel.

Stepping on to the phase in a black mini-dress with green collar and cuffs and matching green shoes, Kelly looked like an additional from Austin Powers as she moved to the sounds of River Deep, Mountain High by Ike and Tina Turner.

Combining conventional jive moves with popular Sixties dances, Kelly and Louis pretended to fight over a rag doll, one of the themes in the classic song.

Kelly admitted she in her constituent with the Sixties theme because she loved the decade and had learned moves from era during her pop profession.

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'Dancing With the Stars': Mya shines as 5 remaining pairs compete in back to the future battle

"Dancing With the Stars" went time traveling on Monday night, as the residual five couples duked it out in two dances every one.

Each pair performed a ballroom number and then a Latin dance set in a dissimilar decade, giving rise to such oddly unsettling combinations as Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson's '80s paso doble, in which Donny channeled Adam Ant and Kym kept getting crimped, pink-streaked curls in her face.

Mya came out the winner for the night, and she and partner Dmitry Chaplin are looking like the couple to hit. They began the evening with a smooth quick step that judge Carrie Ann Inaba said looked like "it just flowed right out of you," despite the dance's deviousness.

That routine earned a near ideal score of 29. But despite that strong showing, Mya and Dmitry saved the most excellent for last with a slinky '70s samba that garnerd a 30 from the judges - the first perfect score of the season.

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Kelly is newest Strictly casualty

Coronation Street star Craig Kelly has become the newest celebrity to be voted off BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.

The show's jury voted generally to save EastEnders' Ricky Groves and partner Erin Boag, who faced Kelly and Flavia Cacace in the show's dance-off.

Afterwards, Lancashire-born Kelly said it was "great" he had lasted pending this edition of the programme, broadcast from Blackpool's Tower Ballroom.

Eight star contestants remain in the latest series of the hit show.

Kelly found himself in the dance-off after registering his lowest ever score - 17 out of a probable 40 for his cha-cha-cha.

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Ballroom dancing contest draws throng to College Park

Beyond the multitude of sequin-covered dancers sashaying to the floor, Allison Dennis stood apprehensively in her modest-by-comparison flouncy polka dot miniskirt, eager for her group to be called.

It was, after all, only her second dance rivalry. But like so many relative newcomers to ballroom dancing, what she lacked in knowledge she made up in attitude.

"It's exciting, it's exciting, it's exhausting," said Dennis, breathless, as she strutted off the dance floor with her partner, Robert Granville; equally are sophomores at the University of Maryland, College Park.

They were among the almost 1,000 competitors in this year's DC Dancesport Inferno ballroom dancing competition at the university. What started as a small collegiate tournament 14 years ago has grown into one of the biggest competitions in the mid-Atlantic, with college students and nonstudent amateur competitors alike taking part in a two-day competition.

Participation in the competition has soared in new years. With the popularity of such TV shows as "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Dancing with the Stars," ballroom is very hot.

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Dance ‘icon’ Ziya Azazi whirls on İstanbul phase

“I'm now listening to my heart, and I believe that it is telling the fact,” says Ziya Azazi, regarding both the praise and censure directed at his style of dancing.

The pioneering Turkish dancer of international acclaim, best known for his unique modern choreographies based on the whirling rituals of Sufi dervishes, is this year celebrating not one but three anniversaries: his 40th birthday, the 20th year of his dancing career and the 10th year since he first incorporated Sufi revolving into his choreography.

Azazi's tale begins in the south of Turkey, in Antakya, where he was born, then moves to İstanbul for his education and continues in Vienna. While studying engineering at İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ), Azazi was introduced to aerobics, which laid the foundation of his career in contemporary dance. Working with the İstanbul City Theater from 1990 to 1994 as a dancer and choreographer, Azazi went to Vienna in 1994 and worked with a variety of dance companies until 1999, when he began to research Sufi whirling and incorporating elements of the Sufi ritual into his choreographies.

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"Dancing with the Stars" star Slate Slimmed by Two After Double Elimination

(AP) Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos have been booted from the ballroom dance.

The football player and TV celebrity were eliminated Tuesday from "Dancing with the Stars." Irvin failed to capture enough viewer votes to keep him in the competition, while Dacascos lost his spot for the period of a last-ditch dance-off.

Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Irwin finished his run on the hit ABC show with his uppermost score of the season: He earned 23 points out of 30 for his fox-trot with expert partner Anna Demidova on Monday's episode.

Judges' scores are combined with watcher votes to determine which contestants are eliminated each week.

"Last night was a excellent night, and to see the audience here standing up, it's their way of saying they be thankful for the hard work," Irwin said after learning his fate.

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Two more depart Dancing With The Stars

Two more celebrities have been selected off the US version of 'Strictly Come Dancing', 'Dancing With The Stars'.

Digital Spy reports that NFL star Michael Irvin and actor and aggressive artist Mark Dacascos began the latest two to leave the ABC show.

Irvin and specialized dancer Anna Demidova left first after getting the lowest overall combined total while Dacascos and partner Lacey Schwimmer left after being in a dance-off with singer Aaron Carter and partner Karina Smirnoff.

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Strictly Come Dancing: Watch all the performances from this weekend's demonstrate

This weekend’s Strictly Come Dancing saw Zoe Lucker get designated off the show, after she landed in the bottom two with previous favourite Ali Bastian. Len Goodman blasted the results as “ludicrous”, explaining that there were five couples who were inferior than Zoe and Ali in the programme. Just previous in the show, Len had told Zoe that she could be a shady horse in the final. But after the Bad Girls actress received the slightest public votes at the side of Ali, the judges sent her home.

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Step-by-step funnel to dance: Richard Alston

British choreographer Richard Alston has leapt from hippy rebel to member of the recent dance company with impressive ease, writes Sanjoy Roy

primarily a drop-out, then a rebel, Richard Alston has become part of the new dance establishment. He was only ever interested in doing his own thing: developing a dance language and conversing with music.

Born in 1948, Richard Alston was educated at Eton, but – true to the spirit of the 60s – dropped out at 16 to go to art college. A year later, inspired by a Royal Ballet presentation (Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée), he decided that he would become a choreographer. Fortuitously, the Contemporary Dance Trust – forerunner of London Contemporary Dance Theatre (LCDT) and School – was founded at approximately closely the same time, and Alston began classes there.

He began choreographing instantly away. His formalist focus, which gained impulsion after he and fellow student Siobhan Davies went to see the Merce Cunningham company in France, was very dissimilar to the theatrical style that LCDT was developing. Though he made his first piece for them at just 21, Alston again turned away from the mainstream to set up the country's first option contemporary dance group, Strider. A loose collective influenced by America's Judson Dance Theatre, Strider experimented with everyday movement, multimedia, task- or process-based compositional methods, and performed in non-theatre spaces such as galleries, halls and the outdoors. It survived only three years, but was a influential influence in establishing an independent new dance sector.

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Footballers’ Wives luminary Zoe Lucker voted off Strictly Come Dancing

Footballers’ Wives star Zoe Lucker became the latest celebrity to leave Strictly Come Dancing after audience compulsory judges to make a “ludicrous” choice between two of their favourite couples.

Lucker was fifth on the jury’ scoreboard but was sent into the dance-off with third-placed Ali Bastian when audience’ votes were added.

Head judge Len Goodman was left with the deciding vote and said: “I know the viewers’ can do what they like and it’s a popularity contest but this is ludicrous. It’s nonsensical.

“There’s five couples that are inferior than these.”

Mr Goodman had prior told Lucker - who scored 32 for her lively samba - that she had the latent to challenge the show’s leading couples if she could contain her nerves.
Bruno Tonioli gave his vote to Bastian and her colleague Brian Fortuna but said neither pair should have been fighting to stay in the competition.

“It’s silly. Whoever we save it’s not fair on the other self,” he said.
Craig Revel Horwood also voted to save The Bill artist - who scored 33 for the paso doble - but recognized it a “heinous dilemma”.

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