So You Think You Can Dance introduced us to the Top 10 this week and there was some hardcore dancing, some hardcore personalities, some hardcore dissing, and some hardcore overdoing of John Mayer.

Quickly because I leave for the airport in 6 hours and have to sleep at some point… I love having Mia back as a Judge! An Emmy nominated Judge at that! I was psyched to see Wade get his shot at choreographing this new twist in the show. All of the solo’s will be the exact same routine which gives us a chance to critique each dancers take on the choreography. I was psyched to see me some Neil in some tight polyester and I was psyched to just have the show on!

Lacey is one hot sexy ass lady. Her Mormon relatives must flip their lids to see her sex it up as she does. WOW can the girl command a stage. Working it out from front to back, there was nothing wrong with her performance. Flawless. Danny’s as well. She ate him alive, but the boy can move.

Neil and Sara were electric, energetic, and quite the disco duo! Those pants did not disappoint, I love Neil even more now! Hot Tamales!

Sabra and Kameron were good I thought. She was absolutely stunning to watch and he was better than he has been for weeks. I get that he’s still lacking something but you’ve got to hand it to the kid for trying! I still miss Sabra and Dominic together though, don’t you?

Dominic and Jaimie’s Viennese Waltz was soooo not what I expected. It was not the Viennese Waltz we’ve come to know and love. She is always stunning with her lines and all but this was hands down Dom’s worst week. Like Mia said, 1 bad week… not too shabby!

Lauren and Pasha were really good tonight, I hate to admit it. The whole transformers opening and close were incredible to watch and sooooo perfectly in sync. I still don’t like her though. She annoys me.

Remember how I said I was excited for Wade’s choreography? Yeah, it wasn’t his best and to then see it 10 times was a little, how do I say this… TOO FRAKKIN’ MUCH! If I had to hear John Mayer say he was waiting for that world to change one more time, I was going to turn on every light in the house, run every air conditioner and start dumping oil into the Boston Harbor. That world needed to END!

In theory it was a good try. I did like watching how each one was different. Of the girls, I thought Sara, Sabra, and Lacey were the best. Of the boys, Neil, Pasha, and Danny.

So who goes home and who stays? Ideally I want Lauren gone. I worry about Jaimie because her solo was weak and then getting stuck with Dom was not good for her this week. Over on the guys side, it’s gotta be Kameron right? Poor Kam Kam!

Oh and how funny that once again Cousin Heidi got NO LOVE AT ALL? Dmitry’s up there shaking his thang and there’s poor Cousin Heidi screaming LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, I’M ON TV AGAIN! Tragic.

Raise your hand if you wanted to KNOCK ON NEIL’S WOOD?

Ducky reader MELLIEMEL (hiding her real name for gangsta purposes I presume) was lucky enough to attend the taping of last night’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top 10 performances. As she promised last week, she’s bringing us all the scoop from inside the house!

MellieMel will spoil you, she’ll treat us, and she’ll make you laugh when we go ON SET WITH MELLIEMEL!
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Wow, we’re into the Top 10 America! So You Think You Can Dance is heating up and its time for the pairings to get a little remix and its time for the dancers to show us what they have when they perform solos each week.

If you want to know the couplings and routines for this coming Wednesday night’s performance, they are revealed after the jump.
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So You Think You Can Dance Announce The Top 10 Dancers!

Wow, tonight’s show was extremely hard to watch. I was a nervous mess from 9:40 on and as I type this I’m still a little jittery.

Here were the Bottom 3 Couples this week:
Danny Voldemort and Anya Garnis
Hok Konishi and Jaimie Goodwin
My BF Neil Haskell and Lauren Gottlieb

I was off by one couple but I did pretty well in my predictions based on the Top 12 Performances. I was sad to see the amazing Hok Konishi go, as well as Anya Garnis.

While the show has ended, I can’t help but wonder how the hell someone in particular is still in this competition. I’m sure you’re expecting me to say Voldemort, but that’s not it. It’s that shrew Lauren Gottlieb. While her solo tonight was pretty good, it stank of desperation (not Jaimie’s solo, thank you Nigel) and was a little too frantic and nervous for my liking.

Granted, I don’t love the girl and I guess I understand her staying and being more versatile than Anya but damn it hurt to see Anya go before Lauren. Did anyone else notice that she made way too much eye contact with the camera during the opening Jive number? She works a nerve.

There were moments of elation and hope when Voldemort was announced to be in the Bottom 3 but deep down I knew it was a crap vote to have him there. Based on this week’s performance, there was no way in hell he deserved to go but I still kind of wanted to see it happen.

I’m just 100% happy that I can breathe again knowing the My BF Neil Haskell has made it to the Top 10 SYTYCD Tour and that I’ll be able to molest attack meet him this fall. The boys damn cute and he’s fun and dorky and seriously that body is OOC! I heart him, as you know.

Glad they gave a shout-out to Emmy Nominees Wade Robson and Mia Michaels. They totes deserved it after those amazing routines.

*If you love SYTYCD, check out our latest TV Podcast where we talk heavily about our favorite dancers, and our love of all things SYTYCD.  Granted, it was recorded last week but it’s still fun.

I’m tired. Must sleep… or watch the premiere of MAD MEN.

Dominic Sandoval and Sabra Johnson Video:

Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron Bink Video:

Pasha and Sara Von Gillern Video:

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This video featuring Voldemort and Anya Garnis really blew me away.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top 12 Perform

I kee… I keep… I keep tr…

I keep trying…

I keep trying to write a recap but something keeps stopping me. I feel like Harry trying to throw hexes at the Half Blood Prince after Dumbledore bits it. I just can’t write because something is wrong in the world.

Danny Tidwell is like Voldemort. He’s “He Who Must Not Be Named” and it pains me with every bit of my being to say that…

No I can’t…

Adava Kedavra!

Damnit, didn’t work. I still want to say that I absoloved Danny and Anya’s Fox-Trot last night. There, I said. ARE YOU ALL HAPPY NOW? Kittens just died because I said that! Does that make you all happy?

I CURSE YOU JEAN MARC JENERAUX for creating such a wonderful vehicle that showcased his unreal talents. How dare you.

His leaps, his grace, his extension, his brilliance during that piece makes me want to gouge my eyes out. It makes my lightning bolt scar hurt. Seriously, the most beautiful and down right amazing routine of the night.

It was a real showcase for Tom Riddle and Anya Garnis as it highlighted the strenghts of each. Some wonderful partnering skills from Voldemort (finally) which really allowed Anya to just get out there and float as if her feet were on a Nimbus 2000.

Seriously, there’s going to be a Dark Mark above my house after writing this post.

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Alright, its Monday night and that means SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE has just finished taping its Top 12 finalists episode and as usual here are the dances each couple had to learn.

Wait, before the couples… WADE ROBSON is this weeks guest judge. Gotta love that! In part because I love me some Wade as a judge and choreographer and in part because that means my prediction last week didn’t come true. The producers did not give Danny and Anya a Wade routine to ensure their survival into the Top 10.

***BIG HUGE NEWS!!! TRAVIS WALL is on this weeks show!!!

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Deborah Starr Seibel at TVGuide has been spending some seriously envious time with the So You Think You Can Dance crew and is reporting all the juicy gossip for us.

Why did Jessi Peralta go home? Nigel Lythgoe finally fesses up:

“For two weeks, Jessi was ill,” says Lythgoe. “The first week, we got her through it. But the second week she went to the hospital.” Lythgoe owns up to the charge that Peralta was sent packing in part because of her health. “I won’t speak for the other judges,” says Lythgoe, “but for me personally, yes, I did take that into account.”

Does Danny Tidwell have pierced genitalia?

The pinched expression on contemporary dancer Danny Tidwell’s face Wednesday night as the judges argued over whether his problem connecting with the audience was the result of his perceived arrogance. Tidwell’s expression had little to do with the discussion about his attitude — he was battling tremendous physical discomfort and his closed, tight face hid the fact that he probably wanted to scream. “He had four safety pins pricking his testicles because he’d split his pants,” explains executive producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe, shaking his head after tonight’s results show. “You never give a dancer safety pins, and he had four of them up there.”

Does Benji Schwimmer mind giving the spotlight up to his sister Lacey over technical ability?

“Not at all,” he says, hanging out backstage after the show. “I taught her, so that’s just a credit to my teaching abilities. Of course she’s more technical than I am, because she’s had one more teacher than I had — me.”

Who’s injured, who’s not, who’s hot and who’s just slammed their head into the ground when TVGuide goes backstage with So You Think You Can Dance.

Jamie Goodwin danced her ass off last night!

Hok Konishi proved he’s the B-boy to beat:

See the rest of the solos from this week’s elimination round after the jump.
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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE RESULTS SHOW

Let’s not pussyfoot around. Shauna Noland and Cedric Garnder were sent home last night on a semi-bloated hour of So You Think You Can Dance.

Was it time for either or both to go? I’m not sure. I 100% believe it was time for Cedric to go home. He had learned a ton while on the show, he’d grown as a dancer, as a person and scored himself a sweet free ride to the Debbi Allen Dance Academy. Can’t beat that. I think he was proud of his performances and I think that he knew it was his time to go (two weeks ago)…

Shauna on the other hand was totally screwed. There’s a part of me that didn’t mind her going home, but then there was that part of me that thinks she got the short end of that dance stick. Nigel complained that she didn’t grow much during the course of the season and that she isn’t showing the potential needed to stay around at this stage of the game. That may fully be the case but come on… YOU GAVE HER CRAP PARTNERS!

Jimmy was a good dancer, but they had zero chemistry together and never connected. Cedric was like dancing with a first year at Hogwarts. Shauna was Hermione and Cedric, Neville Longbottom. It was never going to work and how could Hermione grow if she’s always left behind because of Neville’s shortcomings? What am I talking about here?

Farewell you two, good luck and sorry but we’ve got to move on!

I’d like to say I so called the Bottom 3, but patting myself on the back seems pointless when there’s more to chat about.
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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top 14 Perform

First of all let me start by saying I was so happy to see Cat Deeley and the Top 14 kids back in action after that mini-holiday hiatus they took last week. It was like seeing an old friend again, putting on those comfy pajamas, or biting into a bing cherry for the first time all year. You know, things you love and are happy when they come back and they just make you giddy like a school girl…

Before I get into the show at all I want to say that I want to hug, squeeze, kiss, high five, dap, and maybe give a happy ending to Hairspray The Musical Director/Choreographer/This Week’s Guest Judge ADAM SHANKMAN for finally having the balls to say that Danny Tidwell acts like he’s way above this competition! In fact I think the words were, “you dance like you’ve already won this competition.” There was some calling out of sticks being up asses and cockiness and my paragraph has just gone to a whole new level of innuendo but seriously, I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE SHANKMAN CALL HIM OUT! Amen brother man! Needed to be done but we’ll talk more about it later.

On to the show…
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I was at GMMR’s all night watching the show and podcasting then podcasting again because we had a pretty major technical difficulty and I didn’t get home until well into the hours of Thursday.

That being said, I have watched last night’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and will be working on a recap as best I can throughout the morning. Stay Tuned…

While he may not be my favorite dancer, he is the adopted brother of last year’s TV Boyfriend TRAVIS WALL so I guess I have to give DANNY TIDWELL some love sometimes. Here is an article from The New York Times about Danny and kinda slamming SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE for being a dance reality show.  It commends him on not mugging for the camera and for having such “dignity.”

The mission of the popular television show “So You Think You Can Dance” is not to crown America’s favorite dancer, but to find Leroy from the 1980 film “Fame” — a gritty dancer with attitude who possesses nothing but a soaring jump and the ability to spin on a dime. It won’t hurt if the new Leroy is also an emotional wreck. America loves nothing better than to see arrogance crushed to reveal deep vulnerability.

But Leroy, it turns out, is an elusive muse, and the show, now in its third season and open to both men and women, has failed to produce a dancer of much distinction. (“So You Think You Can Dance” pairs dancers who perform a different style of dance each Wednesday at 8 p.m., Eastern and Pacific times, on Fox; the following night, results of an audience vote are announced. After a round of 30-second solos performed by those in danger of elimination, two dancers are sent packing.)

This summer, however, there is a prince among the rest, whose backgrounds range from ballroom to hip-hop. His name is Danny Tidwell, and though he has strategically placed himself in the category of “contemporary dancer,” ballet fans in New York know he represents a great deal more.

Remember how I said it rips apart our favorite summer show?  Well, look no further than this statement.

Even more disturbing is the idea that “So You Think You Can Dance” has emerged as a viable option for real dancers, including Mr. Tidwell, who don’t have to look far to see that career options have been greatly depleted. At its best, the show provides a kind of kicky fun, the good side of cheesy. But it’s also outdated and perpetuates many stereotypes about what constitutes good dance (speed is in, subtlety is out), what language is used to describe it and how training makes boring dancers.

Nice huh?  Finish reading the DANNY TIDWELL NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE.

Don’t forget that tonight So You Think You Can Dance returns.  Head on over to my SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE SPOILER post to learn the dances the couples will be performing tonight.