SYTYCD Kansas City

On Wednesday night, I attended the 2008 SYTYCD Tour at Sprint Center in Kansas City. I had amazing seats (thanks to presale) in the 5th row. I actually enjoyed the show more than I expected to. This has been my least favorite season, but I had a lot of fun seeing all of the dances live. I didn't take notes, so this isn't going to be a formal review by any means, but just some general notes/comments.

• Kherington needs to close her mouth. Instead of smiling at inappropriate times like she did on the show, most of her facial expressions are approximately :O This was actually one of the first things I noticed during the show.
• After the requisite video montage of Nigel's Top 5 "memorable" (aka bad) auditions, the dancers came out and performed Shane Sparks's Elevator group number. The dancers were introduced by Cat on the huge video screens and did mini-solos. They then re-introduced themselves live, saying what style they specialized in and their hometown. Katee announced that she would not be performing at all that night due to injury. I knew she had hurt her back, but I still had hope for at least the Will/Katee Complexions Pas De Deux or maybe No Air.
  
• Twitchington performed first with their "We're Escaped Convicts" hip hop by Napoleon and Tabitha. Among many other dances, they did a "world tour" of dance styles from around the world featuring Thayne and Chelsie's Cha Cha, Josh and Twitch's Trepak which Gev introduced in Russian (and a dress), Courtney and Mark's Viennese Waltz (once again, Gev wore a dress), and the group Bollywood number.
• Some of the highlights of the night for me were Bleeding Love, Five Guys Named Moe, The Garden, The Dance, Twitchington's "Bed" contemporary (which I have rose petals from in my purse), Money Money, and pretty much anything involving Chelsea H., Courtney, or Mark. Despite the odd facial expression, I was actually really impressed by Kherington.
• Because all of the dances involving Katee except for group numbers were cut, some "emergency backup dances" were added in addition to the ones on the normal set list. These included Courtney and Josh's Frankenstein hip hop (which I have no recollection of ever seeing before), Courtney and Gev's Rumba, Jessica and Will's "Shirt" contemporary, Marksie's Kiss Kiss jazz and Twitchington's Too Darn Hot Broadway. I think there were a coupe other Courtney dances added, too. Because Katee did not perform, Jessica King did her solo which I was not at all impressed with.

I know there's a lot I haven't talked about, but it's really hard to remember everything. However, if you have any specific questions, it would probably make it a lot easier for me to come up with an answer than to post every single little detail that I can dredge up.

At one of the merchandise stands, I bought a tour t-shirt (just the regular one, not anything dancer-specific), leggings, and a program, all of which were ridiculously overpriced, but super cute.

After dances with props or some type of streamers, people were going crazy with grabbing fake money, rose petals, and confetti when they swept the stage off. I managed to grab some rose petals and ended up with a random lost bobby pin from the stage in an attempt to get confetti.

I took a lot of pictures before intermission, when my camera's battery "conveniently" died, but I'm fairly sure my camera is broken. They all turned out massively blurry and most of them had weird lines across them. I tried to pick out some of the better ones though.

Stay on your toes,

Selly