Category: Quick Steps

Short takes on the world of dance

So You Think You Can Dance: Top Eight Perform

Top eight week on So You Think You Can Dance finally brought the long-awaited pairing of contestants, providing dancers with just a little better opportunity to showcase strengths. It’s refreshing, in a sea of routines sometimes overburdened by a detailed narrative, to get a dance with one simple purpose: movement. Choreographer Mandy Moore is good…

So You Think You Can Dance: Meet the Top 10

Last week’s So You Think You Can Dance recap singled out Gaby Diaz’s tap routine with finalists Lex Ishimoto and Evan DeBenedetto. And while official pick Ishimoto is appearing here as a contemporary-first dancer, his training in tap has been substantial enough for the two to offer up this Fred-and-Ginger referencing routine from the usually…

World of So You Think You Can Dance: Creative Editing

Back to the highlights as So You Think You Can Dance‘s second-to-last “Academy” round, whittling the All-Star teams down to two candidates apiece, before the top 10 reveal in weeks to come, brought back a bit more in the way of dance routines. While we’re sorry not to have seen, for example, Fik-Shun’s efforts with…

Happy Birthday, Ginger Rogers

Moving in Measure can never pass up a chance to post any clip of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and the 106th anniversary of Ms. Rogers’ birth is certainly as good an excuse as any. While uptempo numbers like Swing Time‘s “Pick Yourself Up” are great demonstrations of technical ability and connection in the purest…

World of So You Think You Can Dance: Traditional Value

Has the hour time cap forced So You Think You Can Dance‘s producers to tighten focus for Season 14 — highlighting both talent and stylistic diversity on a weekly basis, giving viewers less of the most conventional contemporary auditions and more ballroom, more varied hip hop, and a smattering of specialty styles? While the competitive…

World of So You Think You Can Dance: Fancy Footwork

It was a passably good week for lovers of rhythm and footwork on the summer’s TV dance competitions. Tuesday’s World of Dance included a duel between Kyle Van Newkirk and high-profile hip hop duo Les Twins. The battle, unsurprisingly, favored the latter, but it was nice to get a glimpse of a full routine from…

Wednesday Watch: World of So You Think You Can Dance

Note: Updated June 16 NBC’s new World of Dance set a rough road its first two weeks for fans of ballroom; similarly, the genre’s had more downs than ups on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, with the last real gasp in its last adult-focused season coming when Latin champ and SYTYCD Canada winner…

Wednesday Watch: Blues Meets West Coast Swing

Fusion is a topic in the debut issue of our magazine, and so is blues and social dance instructor Campbell Miller. And here she is, along with Tommy Schwegmann and Taletha Jouzdani, demonstrating a fun and rhythm-driven pairing of blues’s close hold with West Coast Swing’s turns and passes.

Wednesday Watch: Strictly Seasonal

For this last Wednesday Watch before Christmas, why not pass the time with a few festive picks from Strictly Come Dancing‘s annual Christmas special? (And take a further moment to ask just why its American counterpart can’t mount a similar gala event?) Harry Judd and Joanne Clifton, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (American Smooth, 2015) Great…