And now it's all over, except for the tour!

A brief link round-up, after the finale of SYTYCD. I missed Wed's show due to travel, but enjoyed the finale with dancer friends who indulged my summer TV obsession. Josh won--Yay! Katee got a nice consolation prize (last minute award of $50,000) probably in recognition that she's really been the best dancer. Twitch got lots of love and Courtney won the respect of the fans for her terrific growth over the season. Really, we all would have been happy if they hadn't tried to dance these poor four finalists to death, but there were some fun extra bits: the pop-off between Phillip Chbeeb and Robert Muraine: Muraine was deemed most entertaining by the judges, but other fans agreed with me that we loved Chbeeb's great movement. Debbie Allen did a spot-on impression of Li'l C. Can we have them both back next season along with Adam and Mandy? thanks.

A little bit after the fact, but here are links to iVans vlog, with footage of SYTYCD dancers, past and present. Thanks very much to Editor-in-Chief David Benaym for sending them on!
iVAN episode 6 - FINALE RE-UNION

Nate Levy posted several fun posts leading up to his open thread for the finale and his great recaps. Thanks for giving us a space to hang out during the show!

Tonya Plank's detailed commentary on the dancing in the finale commentary is up at HuffPo.

Dance critic Rachel Howard's review of the final week's dancing is posted at Voice of Dance.

Matt from Ranting Details posts his favorite routine from the finale, No Air danced by Josh and Katee. I have loved his hilarious recaps, and I love the rest of his writing as well.


Scott Patrick Wagner shares my love for Sonya's routine for Mark and Courtney in his final recap up at Multiple Personality. Like me, he thought Wade's "Homage to the Rabbits" was excellent stuff. Can we have more Wade next season? Since I recently watched the director's cut of Donnie Darko, that's where it went for me.

While we are waiting for Leee! to post (I hope) his final musings on the final week, we can review his awesome LOLs and wicked wit from the Top 6.