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So You Think You Can Dance! Season 7!
I'm absolutely obsessed with this show and have been for years. I just can't help myself. I love seeing all the choreographed dances and becoming completely enthralled with my favs.
I really thought I would get sick of it after a few seasons. But, no, uh-uh. I still love it. Maybe it's because I was a cheerleader and dancer in high school? Who knows, I just love it!
Season 7 started just a few weeks ago with auditions and selection of the Top 11. It was supposed to be Top 10, but they couldn't narrow it down so it's 11. Auditions and the selection process are very similar to American Idol, so you can imagine some of the dancing that shows up on the stage. It used to be Top 20, but they have switched gears this season and are trying something new - Top 10 with dancers from previous seasons being their partners. Not sure how I feel about this yet; I think the votes could be swayed by the dancers from previous seasons. We'll see.
Right out of the gate, my favs are Lauren and Kent! I always like the young ones!
The first voting show starts tonight! 8/7c
This is also the very show that inspired my hubs and I to re-enactment one of the dance moves in our living room about a month before our wedding. Let's just say that our "lift-flip" move did not put us on the hot tamale train. It ended badly. Very badly.
Um, yeah, we're pretty much just plain stupid, but it's fun to laugh about now.
So here's the funny, yet very embarrassing story (some of you might be hearing this for the second time). My husband and I were jokingly talking about how funny it would be to do a "surprise" first dance at our wedding. Well, we actually ended up doing one (see video below), but at this time, it was all just pure talk and stupidity going on in our living room that day.
I say to Brian, "Wouldn't it be fun to do a surprise first dance at our wedding!?"
Me: "A fun one like they do on Rock the Reception." (another show I was hooked on for while - Tabitha and Napoleon who are choreographers on SYTYCD teach a dance to couples and wedding parties for the first dance)
Brian: Looking very scared...and saying nothing
Me: "We could do some fun moves and lifts like they do on SYTYCD. C'mon, let's try one real quick. It's easy. I'm going to jump up and backwards and you are just going to hold me at the waist and flip me over." (I was in gymnastics pretty much all my life and I used to do this exact move ALL the time in high school with a guy friend of mine who was an excellent swing dancer)
I jump up and back, when all of a sudden...
BAM. I eat carpet. Literally. And I feel paralyzed from the neck down. Not joking.
I am in such shock that I can't even speak. I just lay there stiff as a board. Brian is freaking out asking me if I'm ok. I literally landed directly on top of my head, my legs straight up in the air, forcing my head forward and down. Pretty much in a headstand position, but with no arms holding me up. My head and neck took the entire weight from the fall.
After the shock of pain goes a way a bit, I can barely move my head at all. Not left, not right, up or down without severe pain. I was seriously scared. I thought I would have to walk down the aisle looking like a robot and I was going to be paralyzed for the rest of my life.
Needless to say, I ended up at the doctor the next day and had to get an x-ray. Turns out, I just had severe bruising and swelling. No broken bones. I was prescribed Hydrocodene and muscle relaxers. However, I do feel like I have neck problems today because of this very incident.
I guess Brian didn't know what a "lift-flip" move was. And that he actually had to help me flip.
Moral of the story. NEVER try to re-enactment moves from SYTYCD. They are highly dangerous:)
Anyways, here's our infamous surprise first dance. I still can't believe we did it. My hubs was a great sport:) We couldn't hear the music at first so it starts off a little rocky.
