Next we meet Danielle Dominguez, contemporary dancer and bacon lover. We get footage of her at home scarfing down on bacon and I can’t help immediately liking her for it.
I mean, who doesn’t love bacon??
Nigel thinks she may start a fad of ten slices of bacon a day since she looks so good on it. And then he suggests that maybe Mary and Debbie might want to go on the bacon diet as well. Too bad they don’t kick his ass for saying it.
Nigel changes the subject by asking Danielle how old she was when she started dancing (5) and what made her start. She did cheerleading first because her mom was a cheerleader, but she didn’t really like it. Nigel hears mom and cheerleader and HAS to ask her mom to do a cheer for everyone. She’s cute and does and then Nigel pervs out again as he talks about the mom. UGH. He’s so gross. Can we just get to Danielle’s dancing?

LOVE the dancing, but I wish she’d close her mouth while doing it. I dunno, there’s just something about this girl that I really like.
Nigel thinks there is no question that she is really unique; he thinks Sonya would LOVE to work with her and he’d also love to see her perform with Mark (yes!), but she’s gotta get to the top twenty before that happens. Good thing she’s getting a ticket to Vegas!
Next up is another member of Dragon House, this time it’s Andre Rucker who tells us he’s a little nervous.

LOVE!
I also love that his fellow crew members are going bananas for him in the audience. You can tell these guys really love each other.
Mary thinks he’s incredible and Debbie says it’s hard to know what to say; it was beyond magical. Nigel says he’d have really liked to see what Andre would do with choreography and h’s sad they’re not going to see it. Because he’s going to Vegas! Duh.
The final Dragon in Dragon House is next Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer.

I can’t even get a picture that does this kid justice! WOW WOW WOW. Love him as well! I hope at least one of these guys can hang enough to make it to the top twenty.
Nigel quotes Mia and tells Glitch he’d like to stab him in the eye.
Anyone else wish he’d stab himself in the eye? Or face. Anywhere really as long as it’s multiple times.
Do we even need to recap what the judges say? You know Glitch is going to Vegas, right?
LOVE these guys!!
And now it’s time for the choreography round. You may remember that Janelle the belly dancer and Jackson the wobble teacher made it this far. Can they hack it in choreography?
YEP!
They both make it through to Vegas as well as thirteen other dancers. And this is only day one!!
Time for day two of Atlanta auditions.
We meet someone outside who thinks she looks like Cat.
She kinda does.
And then we meet Courtney Kirby who has been accompanied to the auditions by her grandma who also used to be a dancer. She’s adorable. The grandma, that is. In all fairness, Courtney is pretty adorable herself. Her grandma tells Cat that Courtney should be on So You Think You Can Dance because she is special.
Of course the fact that Grandma is here comes up during the interview segment of Courtney’s audition, so Nigel brings her up to the judges table.
Where he gets a taste of his own medicine!
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I love Cat! I don’t think that can be said enough.
If were the dancers from the other cities, I would be really jealous that the Atlanta dancers got to have Debbie Allen watched them.
I loved the belly dancer, but I might be a little bias since I’m from Alabama too. I love belly dancing and would love to learn how to do it.
Loved the Dragon House dancers, especially the last guy. I really hope at least makes it the top 20 too, but since I want it to happen it probable won’t happen.
The Selena Gomez Stalker was super annoying. He’s one of those people you just want to punch in the face every time they talk . And the more he kept talking the more that urge grew for me.
I’m really happy for your recaps PottyMouth. For the second week in a row a thunderstorm started during the show, knocking the satellite signal out. So I miss the beginning of the 2nd day and the first 2 dancers.
So first I have to admit I did watch The Choice. I had no intention whatsover until I heard Cat was hosting so I figured I would give it a chance. And it was awful, and slightly disappointed in Cat for being a part of it. It was really painful. But since Cat’s amazing, hopefully it will soon be just a blip on her radar and no one will remember.
I loved Glitch because it’s so rare people that do popping and locking or the robot show much emotion. But he just lit up the stage with his smile and showed all sorts of facial expressions and emotions. I loved his two buddies too. This was definitely the best audition show in a long time.
PM, thanks for the recap; wonderful as always!
I don’t know there is something about Joshua I don’t like, he’s an excellent dancer…just something…Karate guy seems a tad smarmy, don’t like him either. WTF, did you see that horrible ‘ballet’ judges?? You saw that crap live, it s-u-c-k-e-d-. Nigel had a pervgasm watching Glitch. I loved all the Dragon House! I have to watch the second half, I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
I am loving how people are actually doing choreography for there auditions instead of just a bunch of moves. I also love the variety of guys we’ve seen (especially Hugh…what he’s not auditioning?) but as wonderful as the girls have been I wish I could see a girl that isn’t jazz/lyrical/contemperary knock it out of the park. Love this show, love PM, love all the commenters!
@Blazergirl…you took the words right outta my mouth. Cat Deeley is one of my favoritest people on reality TVso I watched “The Choice” solely out of my love for her. It wasn’t funny or cute or so-bad-you-had-to-watch. It was just plain bad. I didn’t even know who two of the dudes were. Cat, God love her, tried so hard to make it watchable but we turned it off before the end.
Anyway, love the recaps and can’t wait for the performance shows to start!
The auditions so far have been crazy good, but has anyone else noticed they haven’t shown ONE ballroom dancer? Unless I’m forgetting, everything seems to be hip-hop, then contemporary with the occasional other style (belly dancing, etc).
It doesn’t seem believable that no good ballroom dancers have auditioned yet, and obviously some of them are going to make the top 20 so where are they…?
I was super impressed with the ATL auditions. Other than the karate guy and those twins (GAH-I hate them), all of the auditions they showed in full were actual good dancers.
And @fawm-I agree. This audition round had actual choreography instead of the stick my leg up in the air olympics.
I thought the belly dancer was great in her style, but I’m interested to see how she does in Vegas. I can totally tell that chicken hasn’t had the greatest training. She has a decent foundation, but there isn’t alot of power in her moves. Nothing she did really went to the next level-her teachers seem to have taught her really basic stuff. Solid, but still. Although the husband think she looks like she took dance classes from the local strip club and then tried to translate it-so who knows.
Potty you are AWESOME as always. Did you see Hugh on the Tony’s this weekend? And Alex Wong?
Dragons, Zombies, Exorcists…is this SYTYCD or Game of Thrones?
Alex Wong was on the Tony’s????? I’m not happy I missed him!
Last night featured a fabulous ballroom danced named Witney Carson. She reminded me a lot of Chelsie Hightower.
Imagine if Dragon House crew was on ABDC…sickening!
@blazergirl He’s in the Newsies cast. As is Evan (season 5), Thayne (season 4), and Jess (season 8). But Alex was featured in the Tony telecast.
Heck-Evan apparently has a few lines in a speaking role.
Thanks for recapping what I think were probably the best, or one of the best, audition shows ever. Just a great show. Amazing dancers. Loved the Dragon House dudes. Pure artistry. And if they don’t make it past Vegas, I hope that they bring them back as guests. A very positive and heartening show!
Correcting my grammar – “what I think “was” the best…” Ahahaha. Neurotic? Yes.