So You Think You Can Dance 18x7
Click to view18x7: Challenge #3 - Movies
The top six dancers take on the movies as the competition continues; the dancers split into two groups and take on movie-themed challenges. This week's choreographers Jamal Sims (Encanto, Footloose remake) and Chris Scott (In the Heights, Wicked)
performances ( More under the cut... )
Jaylin is very good at what he does, but like Roman, he was not very versatile. He was very lucky that the choreographers in these challenges either adapted choreography for him, gave him solos to highlight his skills, or hid him in the group. I think if he had been given Anthony's role in the Footloose Frankenstein dance, he might have been able to slide by for another week, but being in the more Broadway/old Hollywood dance really showed his weakness, despite everything that Christopher Scott did to try to make him look good.
I really felt for Mariyah because I have been in that exact situation before where a performance felt pretty good but looked lackluster when I watched it afterward. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about it at that point. Based on that, I thought she would come out with an amazing solo but it was very lackluster.
To be honest, I was disappointed in all three solos this week. I really thought that all three of them were going to bring it (Madison because it was her second time in the bottom, Jaylin because he knew he was the weakest one in his group, Mariyah because she just had that "wow, it didn't look as thought as I thought it did" epiphany). I think that if they had done those solos during the audition round, none of them would have made it into the top ten. The show has been on for 18 seasons. You know what people want to see when you have to do a dance for your life solo. You need to show a lot of tricks, a lot of personality, and/or a lot of emotion. None of them really fulfilled any of those three criteria.
Since Jamal Sims made it a point to tell Anthony he really had to nail that signature Kevin Bacon move at the end, I thought he was going to hit it but he didn't capture the loose but cool movement at all. I've noticed that in the past few years when I see videos of younger dancers recreating old dances, they learn the choreography but they don't perform it with the same style. It would be like learning a Fosse routine but doing it without Fosse movement.
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