Cody is coming out with a movie "Center Stage 2" which sounds like it's going to be straight to the center stage of a DVD bin near you. For instance, who knew there was a first "Center Stage"? He's also been back on Broadway doing the Grease thing. He just loves dance and we get another growing-up-as-a-dancer montage. Cody's is a little more poignant as we learn that his dance partner died, his girlfriend died and then his house burned down.
And who is left? Ah, yes. Straight Nick. He's shot some commercials during the hiatus AND he got to meet the REAL Tina Landon. We learn that he helped on a Rihanna dance video and basically took notes for Tina.
I need to reschedule my meeting with the President and tell Rihanna that Jay-Z likes me better.
We aren't spared the slideshow of young Nick dancing either. One photo he looks like a lost Von Trapp kid and it makes me like him a little more. Then there's a photo where he's in a sailor outfit and he looks like he's in the MotherBoy XXX competition from Arrested Development and now I think he's super awesome. He brings up again that this competition was to help him find his love for dance again, because nothing makes you love dance like a hundred Gs.
Narrowly defeated by Lucille and Buster Bluth that year.
So the group is checking out their new digs in LA which are significantly nicer than the previous ones. On the balcony they have champagne waiting for them, but no time to celebrate, they are off to meet Jer Bear and Nomi.
This is the best retirement community EVS!
So now it's time to make the competition even tougher. Did they really think that they would only be performing solos? I sure didn't. That would only be like five minutes of screen time. Of course there's a challenge! And this challenge is going to take them to the limits, which they say every week, but let's just keep redrawing that line. It's like the Most Dramatic Rose Ceremony Ever week after week.
And now their guest choreographers for the week...who will it be? They are taunting us with the line that this week they'll be working with two of the most recognizable faces in the dance world...and it sure is! VINCENT AND DISNEY NANCY! Yee-haw! I'm stoked to spend more time with these two.
You're gonna weep, my little ones.
Cody is nervous because he feels like sometimes there's no pleasing Nancy. How could anything be good enough for her? She is perfection. Vincent is going to be choreographing a piece for them to Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror". Are you kidding me? Is this the eighties? Couldn't we do something a tad more relevant. I do like how no one ever refers to Michael's current incarnation when they discuss him as an artist and heap praise on him. It's like he might as well be dead.
Well, this all seems an elaborate plot to mention that Vinnie has worked with Wacko Jacko quite a bit (when he was alive and Off-the-Wall awesome), for fifteen years, choreographing tours, et al. And even he assisted on Thriller, the Most Famous Choreography in the Galaxy. He was also one of the ZOMBIES! Those were actually people we can meet and interface with? What a world.
Drooling motor oil: The high point of Vinnie's dance career!
And btw, Disney Nancy is adorable in her skeleton hoodie. She's here to check in on how they work and if she could take them on a world tour. As a dancer, how do you prepare? They are going to have four hours today and two hours tomorrow, plenty o' time to get chummy with our judges. I want to see some major ass-kissing.
Mean Gay feels a little mind-effed because he thought that they were just going to do the solos. And all the dancers are a bit intimidated. They will be looking closer technically and want it to be more emotional. So prepare for more criticism and more tears. Awesome.
And we finally get to see these two bust a move! I wonder how the would have judged their own performances. For old people they're not so bad, but I don't think Jer Bear would have called it "full out". So let us begin. They start as if they are in a mirror. Feel the body and then look up! Into the mirror!
Professional choreographers or Jazzercise on a cruise ship?
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Comments (5)
Okay, I'm only on page 3 of the recap but I have to stop and thank you for fabulous Arrested Development (best show ever!) and Tyra references!
T-bo would definitely approve and I can't believe straight guy wore the same costume as Buster...but in real life! LOL!!!
1 of 5 | Posted by smolls | Posted on June 4, 2008 9:51 AM
I just had to write to say that "Center Stage" is a really good movie! It's one of my favorites. I don't remember how or why I saw it the first time, but it is really good.
2 of 5 | Posted by rt12345 | Posted on June 4, 2008 11:13 AM
the recap was amazing as always! my favorite by far is Cody no matter what anyone has to say about him being cold and snobby. Center Stage just so happens to be one of my favorite movies, its really good!
3 of 5 | Posted by mjm234 | Posted on June 4, 2008 11:17 AM
oh wow! i imdb-ed it and it totally looks like the kind of movie i would watch several times. young, troubled teens struggling to make it in the dance world. that's right up my alley. okay, okay i'll check it out.
4 of 5 | Posted by theinternetsensation | Posted on June 4, 2008 12:21 PM
i heart Nick
and Mean Gay is a mess.
5 of 5 | Posted by dredge | Posted on June 4, 2008 1:48 PM