One Of The Brothers Of Les Twins Hurt, How Will This Effect Their Division Dance?

Hollywood Life has posted a gallery of photos from World Of Dance tomorrow night. They also write of how one of the Les Twins is hurt. Read on…

Can Les Twins overcome the biggest obstacle yet? When one of them ends up on crutches, Ne-Yo steps in to encourage the guys to keep their heads up — and let them know they still are in this competition.

World of Dance is one of the most inspiring shows on TV — and judge Ne-Yo is making sure that the competitors are inspired as well! Les Twins are facing a huge setback going into the final rounds before the finale — Laurent is injured and actually on crutches. In this exclusive sneak peek, we see the coach giving the twins advice on their upcoming performance. How do they overcome an injury so close to the end?

“Don’t feel like you’re at a disadvantage by of this, because you’re not,” he tells them — Laurent actually sitting and can’t use one of his legs, so understandably so, Larry Nicolas Bourgeois is very worried. “Keone and Mari have a husband and wife connection — which is a strong connection — but then there’s not only the brotherly connection but the twin brotherly connection. If you can tap into that, you can beat them.”

This is going to be interesting to say the least. More at Hollywood Life. Thanks to Linz for the heads up.

ETA: Here are the clips mentioned in the article….

July 31, 2017 I Written By

Just a music and dancing fan here ....and a lover of life, nature, animals, and spending as much time as possible camping all over in our travel trailer. Favorite Quote at the moment: "Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching, and live like it's heaven on earth." ~ William Purkey. Follow me at: Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud. To view my photography site, see Lisa Kay Photography.

‘World Of Dance’ Kyle Van Newkirk And Keoni & Mari Perform For National Dance Day

World Of Dance Kyle Van Newkirk And Keoni & Mari performed for National Dance Day at the Music Center In LA yesterday. Check out all the fun photos and videos below. They were off the hook fantastic!

July 30, 2017 I Written By

Just a music and dancing fan here ....and a lover of life, nature, animals, and spending as much time as possible camping all over in our travel trailer. Favorite Quote at the moment: "Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching, and live like it's heaven on earth." ~ William Purkey. Follow me at: Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud. To view my photography site, see Lisa Kay Photography.

World of Dance, By the Numbers – Week 8

Well, the last of the cuts tonight and then it gets even harder.  I’m quite sure, at this point, that my favorite won’t win, but I’m going to try to not let that spoil the show. 🙂

As always, you’ll have to bear with me as my view of the show usually changes over the course of the week and rewatching….

But that didn’t happen with the Kinjaz – they are freakin’ amazing!! I love them. And I want a jacket too. 😉 But I have to say it broke my heart to see the looks on SuperCr3w’s  faces as Kinjaz got their scores. Very sad. Anyway, The Kinjaz end up with a 93.2 with two great scores from Derek and Misty (95 and 96, respectively) and kinda ridiculously low scores from Ne-Yo and Jennifer. I’ll be curious to look closer at the scoring of all four once the season ends.

Chapkis Dance Family has been doomed from the start, unfortunately, due to the need for time. Their routine looks pretty cool up until that last big turn at the end. Of course we don’t actually know if it was at the end because it was so shortened. For that matter, we don’t really know if it made sense because of the editing- there could have been a really strong story there. Read more..

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Derek Hough and Ne-Yo Go BTS of World of Dance – Undercover!! (Video)

This is just too freakin’ hilarious. 🙂 They pull it off, for a while.

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A Beautiful, and Important, Blog from World of Dance’s Mari Madrid

Check out this beautiful blog that Mari of “Keone and Mari” wrote – it’s beautiful. I’ll let you read the rest for yourself. I put a tiny bit below, but go to their site and read the whole thing. 🙂

Here we are. We’ve made it past the third round on NBC’s World of Dance. If you’ve been following the show, you’ve seen a peek into a very important piece for Keone and I, and will know that it comes from a place of darkness. A place of deep vulnerability not only for our relationship together, but for both of us individually as well. We talked many times while planning to use this concept for the show, and had long conversations about how much we’d share about this particular piece and where it comes from. We decided to share more than less, with the aim to assure people who are on the outside looking in, that even if life looks amazing on its shell, it can be very difficult and painful behind closed doors. And that’s okay.

July 28, 2017 I Written By

I'm a nerd and proud of it. Two degrees in geology also means I love BEER. :-) I'm also a Derek lover - proud of that too. So don't scream at those of us on this site and call us a bunch of "biased Derek-lovers" - it's just ME. :-) It may sound like I hate DWTS at times, but really, I'm just a snarky nitpicker from way back. And I'm cynical and jaded too. But I do love DWTS. :-)

The World of Dance Judges Talk About Their Kids Going into “The Business” (Video)

Here’s another fun bit with Derek, Jennifer, Jenna and Ne-Yo talking to Entertainment Tonight about if their kids will go into Show business.

July 27, 2017 I Written By

I'm a nerd and proud of it. Two degrees in geology also means I love BEER. :-) I'm also a Derek lover - proud of that too. So don't scream at those of us on this site and call us a bunch of "biased Derek-lovers" - it's just ME. :-) It may sound like I hate DWTS at times, but really, I'm just a snarky nitpicker from way back. And I'm cynical and jaded too. But I do love DWTS. :-)

World Of Dance Tuesday Night TV Ratings On The Rise, Third In TV Rankings For Week Of July 17-23

Give it up to “World Of Dance”! According to TV By The Numbers, “World Of Dance” was Tuesday night’s second highest rated show in Total Viewers at 7.20 in the “same day” ratings. What’s more, “World of Dance” was also up a tenth at 1.7 from last week’s ratings in the key demo (Adults 18-49).

For the week of July 17-23 (Week 7), “World Of Dance” came in THIRD in “total viewers” up from the week before;

1 AMERICA’S GOT TALENT NBC Tues. 8:00 PM 12,573
2 60 MINUTES CBS Sun. 7:00 PM 7,357
3 WORLD OF DANCE NBC Tues. 10:01 PM 6,907
4 THE BIG BANG THEORY – R CBS Thurs. 8:00 PM 6,492
5 NCIS – R CBS Tues. 8:00 PM 6,485
6 THE BACHELORETTE ABC Mon. 8:00 PM 6,220
7 BIG BROTHER CBS Weds. 8:00 PM 6,192
8 CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD ABC Sun. 8:00 PM 6,019
9 BIG BROTHER CBS Sun. 8:00 PM 5,981
10 BIG BROTHER CBS Thurs. 9:00 PM 5,964

So, World of Dance is on the rise again. This was a typical pattern with DWTS as well. Start strong, a bit of a fade in the middle of the season, and then rising to the finale.

More Weekly TV Rankings in detail, see TV By The Numbers.

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Pure World of Dance Season 1, Week 8 (Cuts) – Power Rankings

Well, I said last week that I thought the judges were bound to get it wrong at some point – and unfortunately, I think that trend extended into this week, with some strange disparity amongst the judges’ scores, disparity between scores and critiques, and general quality of performance and the responses each routine got.  When things feel as wonky as they did on last night’s show, it does give one pause and makes one wonder what exactly is going on…

…which brings me to my next point: it’s important to remember that, while this is a reality show, it is still very, very produced, and there’s little things that go on behind the scenes that may help “shape” the show in a certain way.  Heidi, Vogue, and I had a pretty enlightening email conversation earlier today about some things we had read in various interviews that made us really question the validity of some of what we had seen on the show – particularly how the editing has been rather poor and left the show feeling a bit disjointed.  Something to keep in mind that I think escapes a lot of viewers: when you’ve got a show that is completely pre-taped like WOD, it’s entirely possible (and it’s entirely legal) for the show to edit portions of footage that do not effect the overall outcome of the competition.  This may mean we only see short snippets of acts that are probably going to get eliminated fairly quickly, anyway, or maybe the judges’ comments get edited together in such a way that they appear to be more positive or negative in tone than the complete critique they gave an act. It may even be that they may cut to a judge making a facial expression during a dance, and that particular clip is from another performance altogether, but contextually fits with the “story” of this particular dance better (this sneaky clip poaching is a technique oft-employed on Rupaul’s Drag Race, where several queens have claimed that critiques from the judges have often been shuffled around to make it seem like they’re talking to one queen, when they’re really talking to another). As I’ve said many a time over at PureDWTS – you guys should watch UNReal.  Very eye-opening about the world of reality television and how it’s often not all that…real.

But I digress.  What does all that have to do with the price of tea in China? I think the reason that last night’s show maybe felt so strange and incongruous was some editing – albeit poor editing.  Some of the acts got fairly positive critiques, but only lukewarm scores; other acts seemed to get nitpicked quite a bit more, but ended up with fairly decent scores in the end. And some cuts from the judges to the contestants and back seemed kind of jerky and abrupt, as if whole sections of dialogue had been cut.  I’m hoping that, with hopefully a live format and a longer time slot next season, a lot of these awkward bits of editing disappear. And as for the scoring disparities – I find myself wondering if this might be one of the caveats of the judges scoring on multiple metrics, and not seeing how their fellow judges are scoring.  The only analogy I could come up with takes me back to my sorority days, during formal recruitment.  There were multiple rounds, and each potential candidate was interviewed by a different sister during each round, and then we’d score each candidate and come up with an average that helped to determine if the candidate was going to be offered a bid. Each year, there always seemed to be a candidate that was either rude/distant/uninterested/generally unpleasant that somehow managed to score high enough to get into bid territory, despite all of the sisters who interviewed her being generally unimpressed. We figured out that, because we were scoring independently, most of us tended to pad our scores a bit, just so we didn’t seem douche-y, figuring that the girl wouldn’t make it through, anyway. And when we all did it – it actually had unexpected side effects.  Part of me wonders if something similar is happening with the judges scores – the fact that they aren’t colluding is leading to unexpected disparities, since they can’t really bounce ideas off one another.  Or I’m just trying to make sense of nonsense 😛 Read more..

July 26, 2017 I Written By

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NBC’s World of Dance Kyle Van NewKirk And Keoni & Mari Madrid To Take Part In National Dance Day

Saturday, July 29th, is National Dance Day. Cast members from NBC’s World of Dance, Kyle Van NewKirk and Keoni & Mari Madrid, will be taking part in this special event. Here are more details…

The Music Center is partnering with The Dizzy Feet Foundation (DFF) to present the West Coast’s flagship National Dance Day event for the sixth year, this year in Grand Park. Dancers of all skill levels are invited to participate in the official National Dance Day routine at the free dance extravaganza.

Jenna Elfman, cast members from NBC’s World of Dance Kyle VanNewKirk and Keoni and Mari Madrid, and host Christopher Rivas will join in the day’s activities. The pre-recorded routine features dancers from the YouTube Red series Step Up: High Water and is available at musiccenter.org/ndd.

Aspiring dancers and dance aficionados alike will have the chance to enjoy interactive performances by some of the best dance companies in Los Angeles. They include GROOV3, which focuses on putting the fun back into fitness with choreographed dance parties and classes; DEA Youth Dance Program, an after-school dance initiative that offers the healthy outlet of dance to youth; Invertigo Dance Theater, which promotes physical and artistic empowerment by making dance accessible and fun for many underserved communities with an emphasis on low-income students and people living with Parkinson’s disease; Infinite Flow, America’s first professional wheelchair ballroom dance company that believes each person has a dancer inside and should have access to quality dance instruction; and DJ One in a Million, who will close out the afternoon with family-friendly dance favorites by Grand Park’s splashpad.

To read more, see Broadway World.

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Pure World of Dance Season 1, Week 8 (Cuts) – Music from Tonight’s Show

Here it is – the music from tonight’s episode, in chronological order. I’ve included a description of when in the episode it played in parentheses. If you’re looking for music from previous episodes, all music lists can be found here.

“No Limit” by Usher feat. Young Thug (Kinjaz performance)

“Once In A While” by Timeflies (Kinjaz scoring/Super Cr3w eliminated)

“Work B**tch” by Britney Spears (Chapkis Dance Family intro/performance)

“Have Mercy” by Eryn Allen Kane (Ian Eastwood & the Young Lions performance)

“Castle on the Hill” by Ed Sheeran (Ian Eastwood & the Young Lions scoring)

“Into You” by Ariana Grande (Upper division intro)

“The Cure” by Lady Gaga (Luka & Jenalyn intro)

“The Hills” by The Weeknd (Luka & Jenalyn performance)

“Finesse” by Bruno Mars (Fik-Shun intro)

“7 Years” by Lukas Graham (Fik-Shun performance)

“Whatever It Takes” by Imagine Dragons (Fik-Shun scoring)

“Livin’ La Vida Loca” by Ricky Martin (Pasion performance)

“Together” by Martin Garrix & Matisse & Sadko (Les Twins intro)

“Never Know” by 6LACK (Les Twins performance)

“The Man” by Aloe Blacc (Les Twins scoring)

“Say You Won’t Let Go” by James Arthur (Keone & Mari intro)

“Darkness And Light” by John Legend feat. Brittany Howard (Keone & Mari performance)

“Love Me Like You Do” by Ellie Goulding (Keone & Mari scoring)

July 25, 2017 I Written By

Medical device sales by day, reality TV blogger by night. Makeup artist, baker, hair model, and wannabe DIY-er when time permits, and a potty-mouth 24/7. Read more of me at puredwts.com, and follow me on Twitter & Instagram: @putuincespence