Last Wednesday, sweetcynic23, aprilbegins and myself headed down to the new Nokia Theatre Downtown for the So You Think You Can Dance tour! I'll admit it, the only reason I bought tickets was to see Mark Kanemura dance live. But, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I really enjoyed the whole show. It helped that the crowd was really energetic and into it, screaming loudly for their favorite dancers and giving standing ovations when a dance they loved from the show was performed. I might have chosen different dances than a lot of the ones highlighted but that's because I am 1) a hater, and 2) totally biased. Like come ON, only one Mark and Chelsie number??

Under the cut are the few basically passable photos that I took.



For those that care and don't already know, Mark danced "The Garden" with Courtney, "Time of My Life" with Courtney, "Party People" with Comfort, "5 Guys Named Moe" with the Top 5 Guys, "Bleeding Love" with Chelsie, the group Bollywood number, the Top 16 group dance "The Dance" (aka the one where he was the ringleader), the "Money" group number plus his "Bohemian Rhapsody" solo and the new dances that opened and closed the show. So, I totally understand it's rude of me to ask for MORE MARK, but MORE MARK, PLEASE.



The other Chelsea was there (along with Thayne) as a guest dancer. Her abs are SICK, so I had to take a photo of them.


Comfort only had two dances besides the group numbers so she was behind the microphone introducing other the other dancers most of the night. I realize she didn't have a lot of memorable numbers but I think they could have given her a bit more to do.


MARKY! He was awesome and looked great and seemed to be really enjoying himself. YAY MARK!


Unintentional hilarity during a Courtney/Will routine. To drive the point home about the relationship conveyed in the dance (a woman reminisces about her late husband), they had these ridiculous posed wedding shots of Courtney/Will.


Mark introduces a number alongside Katee (one of the very few times Katee wasn't actually dancing).


Kherington looks terrified of Twitch. Do you think it's because she recognizes him as one of the finalists on Wade Robson's old MTV show, "The Wade Robson Project"? Ok, ok, I'm going to let this go. One of these days. With therapy.


5 Guys Named Moe!


Mark makes a valiant attempt to save us from more Twitch during "Moe." No such luck. I also enjoy how Will is just chillin' in the middle there.


There was a cute interlude in the middle of the show where they talked about how SYTYCD went "international" this year. Gev (again not given enough to do) dressed up in all the costumes and had a cute bit about trying to get Courtney to date him.


Posting this one for April, since she liked the dress and she might want it made for her for Halloween. :D


Bollywood group number!


Gev and Courtney during their Cha Cha routine. Pasha and Anya were there to introduce the number and the crowd went crazy. I think we all hoped they'd dance too, but no go.


Ok, so this photo is a bit creepy (Mark was not kidding about his crooked pinkies!) but it's the only one I managed to get during Bleeding Love. Probably because I was super busy LOSING MY MIND. I think the people in front of me were SO sick of me at this point.


Final number of the night. Mark in the front! Also, I felt a strong urge to purchase a pair of American Apparel socks after this routine. Weird, that.



Also - I am sad to share the evidence of a vandalism that occurred at my apartment a week or so ago. I bought a bunch of The Office goodies at Target and was excited to use my Pam magnetic dry erase board right away. That excitement was short-lived however, when I saw that SOMEONE who will remain nameless but has represented herself as my fake sister in the past and WAS a person I thought I could trust once upon a time commited some criminal mischief! Not to worry, the authorities will be notified of this grave injustice.