#creestopher

Jessica's solo on tour is to All About That Bass and it's cute and all, but it's such a generic competition solo that I can't even. Here's the link: /watch?v=fMa4zAD0dWo

About the cross-training conundrum, I don't think it's that people don't want evidence of cross-training. I think it's just that when we're told a dancer hasn't cross-trained and yet they do well in multiple styles, it's really impressive. But if we find out later that they had cross-trained, then it becomes less impressive, just like no one is ever impressed at Contemporary dancers being good at multiple styles, it's just expected because of cross-training.

I love Jessica and she's a great soloist, but I always got the feeling that her solos on the show were just bits of her competition solos that didn't really work in 30 second cuts. That would probably explain the excessive turning since competition solos are generally like 30%-50% turns. I generally wasn't a fan of her solos on the show. And yeah, she probably did have a couple of music clearance issues. I can't see her picking Taking Chances or I Was Here of her own free will.

This is really random, but I think I finally figured out why Ricky's in Sail instead of Emilio. Sail is right after How It's Done which has a shit ton of makeup and costuming, so whoever was doing Sail would have to be taken out of How It's Done. Zack was fine because he didn't do much, but Emilio and Marcquet are the leads so they couldn't be taken out. I guess Ricky was their next choice. There's a video of How It's Done up and I counted 13 people when it started, but about halfway through...

Dirty Diana is Jazz simply because it uses Jazz technique rather than Contemporary technique...I don't really know another way to explain it. Dirty Diana is basically the most pure Jazz dance you can get. I wouldn't consider it Lyrical Jazz because there's not really any Ballet technique in it, and Lyrical Jazz is basically just a combination of Ballet and Jazz techniques. I hope that helped a bit??

I'm also kind of mad that Zack got to be in When I Go. Objectively, Rudy, Ricky, or Casey would have been the best choice, but even Marcquet or Teddy would have sufficed since the choreography doesn't demand much of the guy. That would have been a great opportunity to make the alternates somewhat useful, but I guess they only really care about Zack, Tanisha, and Carly this season. I'm also surprised at the amount of dances Bridget has. Apparently they love her a lot more than they love Jacque.

Based on the full setlist for tour, the favoritism is super obvious among the dancers. Tanisha has more numbers than Ricky (not that I'm mad about that, but it's just weird seeing as he was the winner) and Jacque only has one number...I'm not Jacque's biggest fan, but she mad Top 6 fair and square. She deserves to have at least 3 or 4 dances. Emily and Marcquet on have one number also...why are they even there? And every single number Mandy choreographed is in the show...

I've been trying to wrap my head around Earth Song being on tour all morning and I've come to the conclusion that Mandy basically had to put it on tour. I'm fairly certain she only choreographed 4 duets this entire season (Foolish Games, Seduces Me, Earth Song, and Bossa Nova Baby) and with that in mind I'm actually glad she chose Earth song over Seduces Me...but I pretty much could have done without any of Mandy's duets on tour this season, except Bossa Nova Baby.