So You Think You Can Act/ Dance Part 1

Top 8!
Cat comes out in a black mini dress with jewels and we start the show!
The guest judge today is Toni Basil (many award winner and working with Better Midler, among many other things, not really sure).

There are new partners again this week and the first couple us Will and Courtney, doing hip hop and samba.
First is samba with Jean-Marc, who yells a lot in rehearsal. Courtney is dressed in her finest big-bird couture in a yellow fringed (half) dress. Despite that it's a pretty hot dance. I think Courtney is getting better every week. Nigel says it was fantastic, when they weren't bothered by making the technique perfect. He says the chemistry was really good too. Mary starts screaming about Ashton Kutcher and punked and it doesn't really make sense, but it seems to like the dance. She says the technique wasn't that great, but the chemistry was there and Courtney wooooooo (that was a direct quote). Toni says it was really fun and she enjoyed it. I think she's going one of those judges that says nice things to everyone, which is kind of boring. But at least she's not Mia.

Next up is Comfort with her first solo. Oh they are bringing back the talking part of this show- the dancers talking about why they started dancing, snooze. Apparently Comfort got tricked into going to a performing arts school- so she has some experience with other dances. Her solo is kinda bouncy but with some crotch grabs, so its more hip hop i guess.

The next couple is Twitch and Katee with contemporary and broadway. Turns out they knew each other before the show, which I wonder how? Anyway their first dance is with Mia, who appears to be wearing a bandana under a hat, and why I have no idea. Katee is playing the role of Amy Winehouse it seems, and oh ok they start actually making out. Old friends, right. It's a cool dance, with some of it done on opposite sides of a door on stage and they throw each other around etc. It's more acting than dancing though. Nigel says its hard to critique the dancing because the performance was so great. Nigel also says he's been in that position with a woman banging on his dor to get in (it was Mary, apparently, who responds with a giant scream. Keep that ho on the other side of the door). This Mary-Nigel reparte is getting old, and weird. Mary does a horrible knock knock joke/scream and get her out of there. She loved it, no shit. Toni says she wishes it was her dancing, and they both got lucky dancing to that routine. Katee gets all the best routines it seems.

Will says he first started dancing because of Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. We seem some cute old pics of Will and then we get to his working with Debbie Allen, woo this is boring. He's wearing a suit and James Brown wig and his solo is really weird- but apparently good, cause Cat starts bowing down to him.

Comfort and Mark are the next couple, and they are dancing hip hop. It has a school theme and is set to Fergie. They start dancing in their desks. They do a really cool thing where Comfort like flips over Mark. Comfort does some more crotch grabs, they're pretty good. Nigel says he was so surprised that Comfort dances better when choreographed than in her solos- she was amazing in this number he says, and that Mark was really good too. Mary loved it too and Toni says she takes classes from NapTab and she knows how hard it is. I'd like to see that.

Katee started dancing when she was 4.....blah don't talk just dance. She was a cute kid though. She's dancing to Celine Dion again and it seems kinda the same stuff, but still she's great.

Joshue and Chelsie are up next with Argentine Tango with sytycd alum Dmitri. Yeah he can't really speak english. Chels and Josh joke around a lot and it's cute. She's in blue fringes this time. It's pretty hot, and Chelsie's legs move around so fast and she swings around Josh a lot. I thought it was really cool. Nigel says the routine was really technical and Chelsie's legs are fantastic (how she used them). The chemistry worked and it was enjoyable. Mary said she couldn't understand what Dmitri was sayng (like me) but the dance worked and was believable.

Part II coming soon....