So You Think You Can Dance: Salt Lake City – Hightower and Race Impress
So You Think You Can Dance took its show on the road to Salt Lake City, Utah this week. While the show spun the visit to Utah as a successful visit, I was mostly underwhelmed by the performances from the then-snow covered city.
While I’m sure that many of the show’s younger viewers won’t pick up on how the city was portrayed as being a breeding ground for huge families and messages like a “Joseph Smith is my Homeboy” t-shirt, I thought it was some interesting spin on the day’s auditions.
The show kicked off with what I thought was the top performance of the city in Chelsie Hightower, who I believe dances the cha-cha if my mildly trained dancing eyes (and feet) are correct. Chelsie has everything that you’d want to see in a Top 20 finalist – good looks, good moves, amazing legs, and some Lacey Schwimmer-like facial expressions that her unforgettable. What I really liked about Chelsie was that she didn’t even bring her own partner, but yet the partner dance turned out this well!
Here’s Chelsie’s audition:
I thought the next most memorable, perhaps not necessarily the next best, as I feel like Chelsie blew the rest of the city away in the first five minutes of the show, was Ryann Race, a freestyle hip-hop dancer who is a strip club DJ by day. I have a hard time seeing him make the Top 20, but it would be a nice change of pace. Clearly, Ryann barely made it through the choreography this week, so it seems likely that he’ll be an early Vegas exit, but one that we’ll remember.
Here’s Ryann’s audition:
