Oriental Network News on June 19: News on June 19, Beijing time. According to foreign media reports, the seventh season of "So You Think You Can Dance" will begin on Thursday, Beijing time. final stage. On the night of the competition, Chinese-American contestant Alex Wong received the highest praise from the audience, and executive producer Nigel even praised him with tears in his eyes for "resetting the standards of So You Think You Can Dance."
The sixth season received poor ratings, and the program underwent major adjustments
The competition format of the seventh season of "So You Think You Can Dance" underwent large-scale changes, reducing the top 20 to the top 11 , invited previous popular contestants to perform with the top eleven. The reform of the competition system has made the semi-finals more tense. Many popular contestants in the auditions unexpectedly failed. Even the contestants who finally made it to the finals had a bumpy journey. There is only one person who has performed stably since his debut, making everyone feel confident that he will successfully advance to the top 11, and that is Huang Jingwei.
Give up the attractive contract and insist on participating in the competition
Huang Jingwei’s parents immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong long before he was born. He showed extraordinary talent for dancing since he was a child. He started learning tap dance and jazz dance at the age of seven, and started practicing ballet at the age of ten. Later, he entered Wu Zujie Ballet Academy for professional training. In 2004, he won the highest honor in the ballet world - the Lausanne Ballet Competition in Switzerland, becoming the first Chinese in Canada to win this honor. In 2005, he joined the American Ballet Theater and soon moved to the Miami City Ballet. In 2007, she was promoted to soloist and within two years, she became the principal soloist.
Xiao Huang has actually attracted a lot of attention as early as the fifth season of "So You Think You Can Dance". When everyone thought he would definitely make it to the top 20, he failed because of his contract with the Miami Ballet. , and his supervisor was unwilling to let him go and passed on the show. When Nigel announced the result to him, Xiao Huang burst into tears. However, his So You Think You Can Dance journey didn't end there, just slightly delayed. This year, he gave up the opportunity to renew his contract with Miami City Ballet to return to the competition and gain the privilege of advancing directly to the semifinals. This season, only he and Billy Bell, who withdrew from the top 20 due to illness last year, have received this privilege. In previous seasons, this privilege opportunity was also very rare.
The semi-finals were convincing with their skills, and the finals were touching with their emotions
The semi-finals started with Huang Jingwei’s superb solo dance. On that day, he conquered all the judges and the audience with his one-minute dance, and the judges in the following performances also gave affirmation. Nigel commented: "There is no doubt about your skills." The strong-minded Xiao Huang was not satisfied with this. He thought that he could do better, not just because of his skills, so he immediately Tears for the second time.
His third tears were finally no longer tears of frustration! In the first scene of the finals, he performed with Allison, who is good at injecting emotion into the dance of Sonya. This dance expresses the struggle of people who long for salvation to find inner peace. During the rehearsal, Songya was already moved by the interpretive ability of the two dancers. On the night of the competition, when the intro to Jeff Buckley's song "Hallelujah" just started playing, Huang Jingwei transformed into a condensation of human pain, and his trembling arms as he plucked the guitar strings made people laugh. It's impossible not to be moved by it. Throughout the dance, he gave his skillful skills and powerful vitality, his movements were stretched and controlled, and every jump and every rotation was full of affection. Such a high-level performance made the audience scream again and again. It can be said that this dance pushed the first game of the final to the climax. After the performance, the choreographer and the judges stood up and applauded for a long time. Although the vicious judge Nigel did not stand up, he had a good reason because he did not want people to see him crying.
After a long silence, Nigel said meaningfully: "I believe you have set a new standard for So You Think You Can Dance.
"Emotional classmate Xiao Huang couldn't help crying for the third time. Fortunately, this time he cried with joy. Nigel continued: "Sometimes we pay too much attention to the technical issues of dance, but forget the poetry contained in dance. Tonight, you showed that you not only have skills, but also perfectly interpret the poetry of dance..." Mia Michaels, who has won the Emmy Award for Best Dance Finger, also praised this dance as a The best one in the history of "So You Think You Can Dance", and expressed her respect with the sentence: "You are everything". The famous dancer and director Adam Shankman praised: "I used to be a choreographer. The players inspire the players and make them more outstanding. But this time, the situation has been reversed. You have given the choreographer too much inspiration, making Songya a completely different choreographer! This just shows how amazing you are! We have never seen a performance of your level, and now I know why Miami City Ballet refused to let you go. ”
Huang Jingwei entered the top ten with the first pick, and Usher helped out in the competition
After the first competition was unanimously affirmed, in the opening dance of the final night, Xiao Huang’s dance moves were even better He was unrestrained. After he passed the test safely without any suspense, the male players also entered the top ten one after another, and the female phalanx, which was originally defeated in terms of numbers, actually lost miserably in the first game. Half of the contestants fell into the bottom three, which means that the last three were all female contestants. In the end, another Asian, Alexie Agdeppa, was eliminated. Regarding this result, both the American critics and the United States were disappointed. The audience and Chinese netizens were very dissatisfied. Everyone agreed that there was a worse choice, so why give up on Alisie who still had potential?
The other highlight of the night was of course Usher. . That night, he brought his recent hit single "OMG". The highlight was not his performance, but his popularity and personal charm. Arthur spared no effort to promote his beloved disciples and used his performance as his own. Brick, led to the "Somebody to Love" MV filmed with his disciple Justin Bieber.
Finally, it comes back to our classmate Xiao Huang from the semi-finals. Until the finals, he has maintained a stable performance. Although he had a perfect start, I believe he must be more stressed than happy now, because judging from the situation in previous seasons, the most popular players generally cannot win the championship. .So, Xiao Huang, you still need to work hard! The people of the motherland cheer for you!