gabrielleprato

As a former competitive dancer (15 years) and lover of all things dance, I have been a fan of SYTYCD, DWTS and WOD over the years; I was so excited to see another new dance show that promised a new format focused on choreography. Sadly, I can honestly say the only good thing about this show is Ally Love (I love you girl and take your Peloton Barre classes weekly!) There are so many issues with this show in my opinion...first of all the format of having the dancers judge the choreography...like what? All dancers are not choreographers that seems so strange to me. It also puts both the dancers and choreographers in an awkward position. The dancers need to judge the choreographer they may or may not have worked with but since they aren't choreographers they can't give constructive feedback. Plus, I felt some of the dancers comments and attitudes were unprofessional and disrespectful to the choreographer - who would want to work with someone like that?

Secondly maybe this is an unpopular opinion but the dancing itself was meh most of the time. I don't know where they found these "100 best dancers in the world," but everyone seemed to have varying levels and technical abilities and someone u think even mentioned at one point that they only had two technical dancers in their group. So confusing, if this is supposed to be a show about judging professional choreography should there not also be professional or semi professional dancers dancing? And why did they make the choreographer dance in the dance? Just so weird all around.

Thirdly, the way Akira was treated was horrendous and so offensive. I didn't think she deserved that - her dance wasn't worse than anyone else many dances felt all over the place and amateurish (sorry) and she was the only one who actually focused on storytelling. It was giving fatphobia and prejudice and I wasn't here for it at all. I honestly wanted to stop watching after episode one but I'm curious to see if the choreography and dancing improved.

I literally made an IMDB account to comment on this because it was just so disappointing, I will stick to watching SYTYCD and DWTS but seriously would love a choreography competition show in a different format. Like have them choreograph for different purposes (e.g. A broadway show, a music video, etc.) and actually have people more like Keenan who are professionals or semi professional with actual dancers and actual judges. :) thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!