SYTYCD Australia News

The Herald Sun says Jason Coleman is taking some heat from the Australian dance community:
TV JUDGE Jason Coleman is the talk of the dance world as critics claim he is under-qualified and playing favourites in the top-rating So You Think You Can Dance Australia.

Coleman, who is emerging as the "nasty judge", has the tight-knit dance world angered by his comments with instructors claiming he

The Sydney Morning Herald analyzes the appeal of So You Think You Can Dance Australia, even quoting our friend Reality Raver:
Reality TV blogger Emma Ashton says that until recently, Australian audiences haven't been exposed to dance. "I think a lot of people in Australia haven't been able to see dancing as much as they would have liked ... and I think the cost of seeing proper dancing or the

Keep up with your favorite dancer's blog at the official Ten site.

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The Age has a long article about the show's popularity and it's effect on dance in Australia.
AUSTRALIAN dancers have waited a long time for their own reality TV show. Singers and models have lined up year after year for a shot at instant fame, celebrities and sportspeople have tried to dance, restaurateurs, home

Would-be contestant/choreographer Michael Boyd says Australia is lagging behind the world's dance capitals because the industry is shutting out young talent. He's also calling for So You Think You Can Dance Australia to add a division for dancers under 18. Caroline Marcus at the Sydney Morning Herald has the story.

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Looking back to last week, TVFix interviews Sermsah, Sermsah apologizes

Reality Raver recaps the first performance episode of So You Think You Can Dance Australia: UPDATED WITH VIDEO

It was game on as the first show was tonight and it was time to start dancing to be Australia's favorite dancer, oh and the $200,000 first prize wouldn't be bad either.

Tonight we saw how hot the Australian dancers were, they are right up there with the US competitors, however the

BSYTYCD is pleased to present the first report from our Australian correspondent, Reality Raver. UPDATED!

It was the first episode of the much anticipated Australian edition of So You Think You Can Dance. It was time to forget the fantastic, and entertaining US series and watch this with an open mind.

Some issues that were raised in this first episode were:
1. Does the host Natalie

Lory Pounder of Summit Daily News profiles Sweet Dreams choreographer Mandy Moore:
Now, her passion for dance has taken her all over the world and even landed her a choreographer job on the hit television show, “So You Think You Can Dance.”

“L.A. is very much you are only as good as your last job,” explained Mandy who met people with the dance show when she assisted a woman working on “American

According to The Sun, the U.K. is finally getting its own So You Think You Can Dance, and Cat will host.

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Is any one out there a Bollywood fan? Former SYTYCD choreographers Brian Friedman and Marty Kudelka are set to choreograph the biggest budget dance movie to ever come out of Mumbai.

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Network Ten's So You Think You Can Dance Australia website finally has photos and bios of the

Remember Definition Of A Man, the John Gray show featuring a Danny Tidwell solo that was supposed to be on HBO this month? As best I can tell, the show is in production limbo, and may never be produced for TV.

I feel quite lucky to be one of a very few people to have seen it.

One of our favorite dance bloggers, Maria at A Time To Dance, has been following the Australian show with us. She sees

The official TEN site for So You Think You Can Dance Australia already has voting numbers and clips from the top 18 routines. Alas, they're for Aussies only. So too, are the contestant video blogs and Nacho Pop's Inside Dance, but at least the rest of us can read the contestant's written blogs.

Our Malaysian correspondent Eunice, aka Stuce, knows 2 of the Aus choreographers from the Malaysian

Our own Mary Murphy may show up as a guest judge on the upcoming Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance according to the Courier-Mail. We also learn what Mary has been doing:
In addition to her work on So You Think You Can Dance, Murphy is judging the UK television show Dancing on Ice and starring in a new horror flick titled Killer Movie.

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15 year old Caleb Bartolo blew the Australian judges away with his audition in Brisbane. Unfortunately, he's 3 years away from meeting the age requirements.

Cairns.com has an article and a photo gallery about him.

Also, someone claiming to have been at the audition said this on a message board:
I saw him dance live at the auditions. While the bit on t.v. was great, his full dance was flippin