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"We&amp;#039;re down to only ten contestants on So You Think You Can Dance, and the competition is really heating up because of it. To get us started tonight, we&amp;#039;ve got a gorgeous contemporary group number that&amp;#039;s graceful, elegant and strong - not to mention really moving. Christopher Scott is the choreographer for the routine, in case you were curious.  This week, we&amp;#039;re splitting up the partners they&amp;#039;ve been with since Hollywood and pairing each dancer up with one of the show&amp;#039;s all-stars. Yay! That should be good. Also, while we&amp;#039;re getting started, I should note that joining Nigel and Mary on the judging panel is legendary choreographer Debbie Allen. Extra amazing.   Before we can get started on this week&amp;#039;s routines, we need to find out who&amp;#039;s in danger of going home. Well, Tucker - who wasn&amp;#039;t able to perform last week due to injury - is automatically in the bottom two guys. Nico joins him down there, and Mackenzie and Jenna are the bottom two girls. America made the right decision there - they&amp;#039;re my least favourite! The judges don&amp;#039;t want to see any of them do their solos, either - Nigel just wants to get on with the show and see how they do with their duets.  Kicking things off tonight, it&amp;#039;s Amy with all-star Brandon for a disco routine choreographed by Doriana Sanchez. It&amp;#039;s the first disco of the season (and hopefully the last), but if anyone can make the genre work, it&amp;#039;s Amy. She does her best with it, as well, giving it lots of energy, but you can tell she&amp;#039;s not entirely confident and sometimes seems to stumble or hesitate with certain steps. Still, it&amp;#039;ll probably be better than mostly everything else tonight, so I&amp;#039;m not too bothered. Not to mention it had some crazy, crazy lifts.  The routine gets a standing ovation from the audience and the panel. Definitely well-deserved. Debbie jokes that the fire department needs to be called because of the fire happening on stage before applauding Stacey for her work and the strong partnership between Aaron and Katherine. She&amp;#039;s incredibly proud of Aaron for rising every week from a tap dancer into a well-rounded dancer, adding that tonight he has raised the bar of the competition. Nigel says it&amp;#039;s marvellous when something comes together so well and that the fluidity of the movement was so beautiful to watch because they look as if they&amp;#039;ve been dancing together forever. Mary agrees with the others - it&amp;#039;s one of the most beautiful, touching routines that she&amp;#039;s ever seen, and Aaron is showing so much growth, strength and tenderness every week. Fik-Shun is paired up with season eight winner Melanie for a jazz routine this week choreographed by Mandy Moore, yay! It&amp;#039;s sexy, sparkly, energetic and a lot of fun. Fik-Shun has really grown in this competition and is an all-around fantastic dancer (probably my favourite behind Aaron), and Melanie is lovely as always. It&amp;#039;s great to see them working together - they have a great chemistry and are so fun to watch. I love it.   The judges also give this one a standing ovation, which is a pretty great sign! Nigel loves that Mandy created a jazz routine that the dancers actually understood and translated well. Melanie is an exercise in performance and technique, while Fik-Shun made him incredibly proud by keeping up so well and did all that was asked of him. He&amp;#039;s having an incredible journey on the show, and there&amp;#039;s room to grow every week. Mary applauds Fik-Shun for &amp;quot;flying high&amp;quot; and giving great lines while still living in the moment and bringing such high performance quality. Debbie didn&amp;#039;t even think about the fact that he&amp;#039;s a hip hop dancer - he brought the truth to the stage and melded incredibly well with Melanie. It was fantastic. Moving right along, Paul and all-star Whitney are going for a cha aha routine, which should be interesting. Ballroom dances don&amp;#039;t tend to go over all that well on the show, but Paul may be able to pull it off. Indeed, they do pretty well with it - Paul is well-suited to the style and he definitely keeps up with Whitney, so it&amp;#039;s hard to complain too much about his performance even if it isn&amp;#039;t my cup of tea (it&amp;#039;s not).   Mary praises Paul&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;movie star looks&amp;quot; and charisma, but beyond that, he can actually dance incredibly well. He gives really fast and clean footwork, he is extremely rhythmical and he&amp;#039;s even starting to &amp;quot;create more volume&amp;quot;. He&amp;#039;s on the hot tamale train, for sure. Debbie is wowed and admits that while she expected Paul to soar since he&amp;#039;s in his element, he went above and beyond and really impressed. Nigel thinks they were &amp;quot;born for each other&amp;quot; and make a wonderful partnership as they have plenty of chemistry. He also loves that Paul shows personality and skill, and could very well be in the running to win the whole competition.  Hayley is working with all-star tWitch this week on a Christopher Scott hip hop routine this week, and it&amp;#039;s great. It&amp;#039;s a school themed challenge in which Hayley is a teacher and tWitch tries to get better grades by dancing with her - at least I think that&amp;#039;s the story. Either way, the dancing was great, and you can&amp;#039;t beat a good hip hop routine on this show. Hayley is a great dancer and totally game for anything thrown her away, even if she&amp;#039;s not the most amazing hip hop dancer. She gives it her all and carries it off, so that&amp;#039;s something to be proud of.   Debbie praises Chris Scott&amp;#039;s versatility with his choreography and the fact that it went beyond hip hop and became theatrical. She loves watching tWitch and notes how difficult it is for Hayley to dance with someone so loved on the show, adding that her eye was taken away from Hayley for much of it but that she rose to the occasion by the end. Nigel remembers that tWitch tried to get on the show three times before succeeding and believes it&amp;#039;s a good lesson for anyone trying to pursue their passion. He loves that Hayley got a &amp;quot;funky&amp;quot; routine that wasn&amp;#039;t hard-hitting but was still fun and in her skill range. He thinks she&amp;#039;s a dark horse and will get plenty of work off the show because she&amp;#039;s a great commercial dancer. Mary applauds Hayley for continuing to grow every week and transforming on stage into whatever is called for during each routine.  Jenna is working with all-star Neil on a contemporary routine choreographed by Mandy Moore. It&amp;#039;s a break-up story and while the routine is a moving one, it&amp;#039;s not Mandy&amp;#039;s most amazing work. It&amp;#039;s danced well by the pair of them, but Jenna is probably my least favourite girl left in the competition and it seems to lack a bit of the emotion required - at least in my eyes. Still, no one can argue with the technical aspects.   Maybe I&amp;#039;m wrong, because they get a standing ovation from the panel and audience alike. Nigel loves the fluidity of the movement that they found, which he describes as &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; - and that goes for the choreography and the way it was danced. He thinks Jenna is one of the best all-around dancers that has come on the show from a ballroom background. Mary agrees, adding that their movement together melted and blended perfectly. The way she extended and finished the routine was amazing, and the last lift was &amp;quot;like ice cream&amp;quot;, whatever that means. Debbie loves Mandy Moore&amp;#039;s work and believes this routine was &amp;quot;a gift&amp;quot;. In Jenna, she sees someone who is one of the most gifted dancers ever to step on a stage - a choreographer&amp;#039;s dream.  Next, Jasmine and all-star Marco are doing a Ray Leeper jazz routine that&amp;#039;s really modern and fun. I don&amp;#039;t think anyone can argue with how great Jasmine is. Every single week she is just an absolute killer on stage - so powerful, passionate and able to match anything thrown her way. She really holds her own with Marco here and will no doubt end up being an all-star herself one day. Great routine.   It&amp;#039;s another standing ovation from the judges, with Mary claiming that Jasmine stole the show and drew her in throughout with her performance and nuances. She jokes that the only thing &amp;#039;Blurred Lines&amp;#039; (the song they danced to) was missing was them dancing in the video. Debbie also couldn&amp;#039;t keep her eyes off Jasmine - no offense to Marco, of course - and says that she &amp;quot;used him&amp;quot; and worked it out. Nigel really enjoyed the style, as it was unique and fun. At times he was reminded of Michael Jackson, before noting that he didn&amp;#039;t know whether he was looking at one all-star or two. Told you so!  Right, it&amp;#039;s time for Mackenzie and all-star Jacob to do a Spencer Liff Broadway routine about two people who see one another from across a room and fall in love. It&amp;#039;s a steamy routine, which is a role Mackenzie plays well (perhaps too well - she&amp;#039;s becoming a little one note, though I guess that&amp;#039;s not her fault) and does a lot of justice. It&amp;#039;s not my favourite Broadway routine ever featured on the show, but it&amp;#039;s a good effort. Again, Mackenzie is one of my least favourites left - I like her perhaps less than Jenna, even - and this will probably be her last routine.   Still, it&amp;#039;s another standing ovation from the judges. Debbie is wowed (which makes me wonder what I&amp;#039;ve been watching), saying that she &amp;quot;beyond enjoyed it&amp;quot; and was reminded of classic Hollywood films when watching Mackenzie dance. Nigel wonders why Mackenzie always ends up in the bottom - he doesn&amp;#039;t get it, but he thinks they both have the best pair of feet (literally) he&amp;#039;s seen in his life. Mary calls it &amp;quot;so darn hot&amp;quot; and loves how passionate it was and the fact that Mackenzie matched Jacob amazingly.  Nico and all-star Comfort are getting together for a NappyTabs hip hop routine that&amp;#039;s... reptile themed? Okay, let&amp;#039;s go with it. I have to give Nico some credit for really trying his hardest to grab some &amp;quot;swag&amp;quot; for this one, but it&amp;#039;s very clear it&amp;#039;s just not his forte whatsoever. It doesn&amp;#039;t suit him and instead comes off as slightly awkward instead of fierce. Ouch.  Nigel notes that the audience liked it a bit more than he did, though he does praise Nico for getting involved with the &amp;quot;quirkiness&amp;quot; of the routine more than he&amp;#039;s ever done before, especially considering what a technical dancer he tends to be. Mary thinks Nico did manage to &amp;quot;get his freak on&amp;quot; even though it&amp;#039;s way out on a limb for him. He pulled it off and she loved the routine, as well. Debbie enjoyed it, saying that what Nico did tonight is a great example of why dancers make great actors - they manage to transform into a role very easily. It&amp;#039;s clear no one really liked it, I&amp;#039;d say.  Oh look, it&amp;#039;s Tucker and all-star Robert with a Travis Wall contemporary routine that&amp;#039;s really emotional. It&amp;#039;s a routine about two brothers, one of whom has hit rock bottom and the other is there to pull him back up. Yay, Robert! Love him so much. It&amp;#039;s a really beautiful number that&amp;#039;s danced just as gently and fluidly - it&amp;#039;s kind of breathtaking, actually, and I&amp;#039;m not even that much of a Tucker fan. It&amp;#039;s impossible not to feel a bit of a lump in the throat after watching this piece.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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