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| - Came here for the first time a few months ago to watch "Star Dancer Born Tonight",
a dance competition featuring all-stars from "So You Think You Can Dance?" U.S. and China.
Kinda awkward that there's only one way in, and one way out, but luckily this wasn't a big concert which probably would have been worse. Seating is typical arena seats and the ushers are very nice in helping direct you to your seats.
There were different styles of dance displayed such as tap, belly dancing, lyrical, b-boying, popping, locking, krumping, and jazz. What I didn't understand(and what happened for most of the competition) was how different genres of dance were going to be scored equally? There seemed to be more lyrical dancers on both teams, but you would see Belly dance vs. Hip Hop, Lyrical vs. Krumping, and Tap vs. Lyrical??? Dancers Travis Wall and B-Boy Hok(Quest Crew) are the only familiar faces I saw, and when it came to their turns to battle, both Travis and Hok lost!?!? In the singles categories and also in pairs....fixed judging??? Who knows....
After witnessing all of the dancing which was pretty cool, the competiton was close(according to the judges), but I felt like the Chinese came to compete and were more polished in their performances, where the Americans looked like they were treating this as more of an exhibition than a competition. This show was also being taped for broadcast in China, so with that being said, I'm sure you know who won....ALOHA!!!
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