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" After saying goodbye to four contestants last week, 16 hopefuls remain on So You Think You Can Dance and will be fighting to keep their place in the competition! And to kick things off, we get a Tyce Diorio-choreographed routine - a fun silent movie-style dance to &amp;#039;The Here And After&amp;#039; by Jun Miyake. It&amp;#039;s all screened in black and white... except for a red umbrella! But of course there&amp;#039;s a competition to get to, and the totally brilliant Christina Applegate is here to help out Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy on the panel. So let&amp;#039;s get this thing underway!  Tiffany &amp;amp;amp; George The contestants are dishing secrets about their partners this week, so we start off by learning that at George&amp;#039;s first track meet he peed his pants at the sound of the starting pistol! George doesn&amp;#039;t seem too impressed that Tiffany - who he reveals is super-smart - let that one slip. Still, there&amp;#039;s a hip hop routine to perform, choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon. Since Tabs is pregnant, it&amp;#039;s baby-based - Tiffany and George will be babysitters going insane! George says they have to avoid being &amp;quot;sloppy&amp;quot;, while Tiffany admits the routine is &amp;quot;so fast&amp;quot;. But when we get to see it - set to B.O.B &amp;amp;amp; Nicki Minaj&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Out of My Mind&amp;#039; - it&amp;#039;s good fun! Nigel: Nigel says the routine was &amp;quot;great&amp;quot;, though he&amp;#039;d like to see a bit more grunge in the hip hop routines. Still, he thinks this was &amp;quot;perfect&amp;quot; to open the show. He warns that George looked like he was getting a little tired at the end and needs to keep his energy up, but Tiffany &amp;quot;got down&amp;quot;! He says he was &amp;quot;very, very happy&amp;quot; with her performance.Mary: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m certainly out of my mind over this couple right now!&amp;quot; Mary announces. She says the guys were &amp;quot;fabulous&amp;quot; and suggests Tabitha and Napoleon played it just right. George is &amp;quot;definitely going up every week&amp;quot; and was &amp;quot;really rocking out&amp;quot;, and she agrees with Nigel that Tiffany was getting down. She says they were really lucky to draw each other as partners!Christina: Christina admits that she didn&amp;#039;t expect that routine. She says Tiffany was &amp;quot;tough and scary&amp;quot; but also has some &amp;quot;goofy sweetness&amp;quot;! The only thing is that she&amp;#039;d like the movements to be a bit &amp;quot;soupier&amp;quot; (and she does a little bit of moving herself to demonstrate. She is brilliant.) &amp;quot;Other than that, X marks the spot!&amp;quot; she announces. Amber &amp;amp;amp; Brandon After learning that Amber is a hair stylist an Brandon was in Step Up Revolution, it&amp;#039;s time for the duo to learn their jazz routine for this week! Choreographed by Ray Leeper, it follows a couple who live in the South and get, well, a little sexy after a hard day&amp;#039;s work in the heat. Ray says the most important thing for the couple to demonstrate is their sexuality, since they&amp;#039;ve only just been put together. Well, they don&amp;#039;t need to worry about that - their routine (set to Aretha&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Dr Feelgood&amp;#039;) is super tactile, close and, um, sexy. It&amp;#039;s no surprise Mary is fanning herself by the end of it... Christina: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not religious, but Jesus f**king Christ!&amp;quot; Christina yells, completely forgetting herself in the heat of the moment. She jokes that she felt none of the audience should be there because it was such a private moment. She says this is the best Amber has ever danced, and she has &amp;quot;gut&amp;quot; passion&amp;quot; that is &amp;quot;sexy&amp;quot;. As for Brandon, he was so strong even though he&amp;#039;s a stepper and this isn&amp;#039;t his genre. It was sometimes &amp;quot;too sexy&amp;quot;!Mary: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know what kind of cereal these two have had this morning because there was definitely some soul in that bowl,&amp;quot; Mary gasps. She&amp;#039;s pleased that Amber has come out of herself to give a &amp;quot;sultry and soulful performance&amp;quot;, while Brandon did fabulously - he had an &amp;quot;unforced masculinity&amp;quot; and keeps - pun alert - &amp;quot;stepping it up&amp;quot;.Nigel: Nigel tells Ray that this was &amp;quot;babymaking choreography&amp;quot;! He agrees that Amber has finally let her feelings out on stage (she was &amp;quot;so strong), while Brandon is really thinking about his dances and not just lifting willy-nilly. But Brandon does need to lower his shoulders a little. Other than that, it was &amp;quot;excellent&amp;quot;!  Dareian &amp;amp;amp; Janelle Janelle reveals that Dareian is a bit of a skateboarding daredevil, while Dareian confesses that Janelle loves to write raps (he calls it &amp;quot;pretty strange but kind of cute&amp;quot;, though we do get to see some of Janelle&amp;#039;s raps and I&amp;#039;m leaning towards &amp;quot;strange&amp;quot;, to be honest.) Anyway, Pasha&amp;#039;s helping them out with their cha cha this week, which Janelle says is fun but &amp;quot;so incredibly hard&amp;quot;. And Dareian&amp;#039;s not quite used to the movement. But can their performance to Carly Rae Jepsen&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Call Me Maybe&amp;#039; please the judges? Mary: Mary says the couple had some &amp;quot;phenomenal&amp;quot; tricks in the routine, but there wasn&amp;#039;t really any chemistry betweent hem and the transitions between moves were &amp;quot;rough&amp;quot;. Oh dear! She says they weren&amp;#039;t connected to their centers, and their footwork was not good. She still loves them both and they have fans out there, but this was a &amp;quot;hiccup along the way&amp;quot;.Christina: Christina says that they both gave their &amp;quot;best effort&amp;quot; considering that this isn&amp;#039;t their genre, and says Janelle really sparkles on stage as she&amp;#039;s beautiful and has &amp;quot;such poise&amp;quot;. But she was distracted by the &amp;quot;strange hand things&amp;quot; Dareian was doing (she does feel bad about criticising them both, adding quickly at the end: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so sorry... I hate saying that. Thank you.&amp;quot;)Nigel: Nigel agrees that Dareian didn&amp;#039;t really know what to do with his hands, and with Mary&amp;#039;s comments about Dareian&amp;#039;s footwork. As for Janelle, she&amp;#039;s so sexy when she bellydances (cheers from the crowd) but she wasn&amp;#039;t sexy here (boos from the crowd). He doesn&amp;#039;t know if she was nervous, but there was just no connection between Dareian and Janelle. Oh dear! Lindsay &amp;amp;amp; Cole Lindsay dishes that Cole takes acting very seriously, while Cole reveals that his partner has a phobia of feet (this is fun, because we get to see her squealing at various feet. Excellent.) But they&amp;#039;re taking on a contemporary routine from Mandy Moore this time - Cole will represent &amp;quot;hate&amp;quot; and the &amp;quot;negative energy of the world&amp;quot;, while Lindsay is a &amp;quot;light free spirit that&amp;#039;s trying to be positive&amp;quot;. Their routine to Charlotte Martin&amp;#039;s cover of &amp;#039;Wild Horses&amp;#039; is pretty beautiful, but what will the judges think? Nigel: Nigel takes the time to congratulate Mandy and the lighting department, before saying that he&amp;#039;s criticised Lindsay for being &amp;quot;juvenile&amp;quot; in the past. While that will only improve with age, he tells her that &amp;quot;by golly&amp;quot;, her spirit was in the right place in this dance! He says her moves were &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; and the dancing was &amp;quot;fantastic&amp;quot;. As for Cole, he says he is &amp;quot;meticulously neat and tidy&amp;quot; in everything, which could become boring. But it&amp;#039;s not, because Cole has personality and adds production to it. &amp;quot;Young man, you&amp;#039;re a genius!&amp;quot; he declares.Mary: Mary announces that Lindsay was &amp;quot;mesmerising&amp;quot;, while Cole is &amp;quot;so versatile every single week&amp;quot;. She adds: &amp;quot;You are just nailing it and it&amp;#039;s extraordinary and it&amp;#039;s so much fun and a privilege to watch you every single week.&amp;quot; High praise indeed!Christina: Christina describes Cole as an &amp;quot;enigma&amp;quot;, explaining that some of his dancing looked like he was levitating! She also admits she didn&amp;#039;t know Lindsay could do that. She confesses that at one point she wished she could see Lindsay&amp;#039;s face more because her hair was covering it, but then she looked at her body - &amp;quot;You were speaking so much through your muscles and your body.&amp;quot;  Amelia &amp;amp;amp; Will Amelia jokes that Will thinks he&amp;#039;s in a boyband (and we get to see some of his warbling, which is fun), while Will reveals that Amelia is so pale because she&amp;#039;s always applying suncream. Oh, and we get to see a picture of 4-year-old Amelia, which is adorable. Still, time for jazz with Mandy Moore... except Amelia doesn&amp;#039;t get much chance to rehearse because Mandy&amp;#039;s so taken with Will and won&amp;#039;t put him down (&amp;quot;Mandy, man, you are on my... man!&amp;quot; jokes Amelia.) Will&amp;#039;s left grinning: &amp;quot;Ladies, ladies.&amp;quot; Their performance, to &amp;#039;You!&amp;#039; by The Creatures, is a little flat though. Christina: Christina calls Amelia and Will the &amp;quot;dream team&amp;quot; and says their chemistry is &amp;quot;spot on&amp;quot; - she can tell they like each other. She also praises them for embodying different styles each week.Nigel: There&amp;#039;s not such positive feedback from Nigel - he says he &amp;quot;didn&amp;#039;t feel it at all&amp;quot;. He thinks it was &amp;quot;black and white&amp;quot; and didn&amp;#039;t really connect. Still, he says Will has the best personality on the show and he loves where Amelia&amp;#039;s head&amp;#039;s at. But he just wasn&amp;#039;t feeling this routine!Mary: Mary&amp;#039;s neither Team Christina or Team Nigel - she&amp;#039;s somewhere in the middle. She thinks everything Amelia and WIll did was good, but it wasn&amp;#039;t one of their strongest number. She says that Will&amp;#039;s probably the best partner in the competition - he&amp;#039;s strong and helps the girl where she needs to be - while Amelia is &amp;quot;phenomenal&amp;quot; to watch. A mixed bag of feedback for Amelia and Will, then! Audrey &amp;amp;amp; Matthew Audrey reveals that Matthew was a golfer before he started dancing at 16, while Matthew gives us a glimpse into Audrey&amp;#039;s bedtime routine - pigtails, massive glasses and a retainer! But she better find her sexy side, because it&amp;#039;s time for salsa choreographed by Liz Lira. It all starts off well, but when they get to the tricks - like the tornado spin - Liz admits kindly that it was &amp;quot;a challenge&amp;quot;. Can they pull it together for the performance? Well, I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s just me, but the salsa seems kind of slow and not really in time with the music - &amp;#039;Cinco Salsa&amp;#039; from Sverre Indris Joner/HSC/KORK. It picks up a little at the end, but let&amp;#039;s see what the judges say. Mary: Mary says Audrey and Matthew are one of her favourite couples, but she admits this won&amp;#039;t be the &amp;quot;biggest highlight&amp;quot; on their journal. She says it was &amp;quot;uncomfortable&amp;quot; and their chemistry just wasn&amp;#039;t there. She points out that it has to be on fire in the salsa.Christina: Christina agrees - she&amp;#039;s watched every week and think they are &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot;, but she was distracted by the music and thought they looked a little lost.Nigel: Nigel also feels the same way - salsa should be a &amp;quot;cocktail mix of sex and energy and fun&amp;quot; but this felt like &amp;quot;a margarita mix on quarter speed&amp;quot;. Ouch. He doesn&amp;#039;t know if it was the music, but some of the moves were slower than they should have been and there &amp;quot;just wasn&amp;#039;t enough going on&amp;quot;. He softens the blow by saying that they&amp;#039;re one of his favourite couples - but this wasn&amp;#039;t their best night.  Witney &amp;amp;amp; Chehon Witney has not one, but two secrets about Chehon - he plays the violin, and puts orange juice into his cereal instead of milk. Meanwhile, Chehon reveals that Witney speaks a little German, but when he asks her how she is in the language, she replies: &amp;quot;My name is Witney.&amp;quot; Hmm. Anyway, they&amp;#039;re working on a contemporary routine choreographed by Stacey Tookey - an &amp;quot;impossible love story&amp;quot; about two people who want to be together but the circumstances won&amp;#039;t let them (incidentally, Chehon says he was in that situation recently!) Witney&amp;#039;s also hoping to impress as she was named after Whitney Houston, and they&amp;#039;ll be dancing to &amp;#039;I Will Always Love You&amp;#039;. She doesn&amp;#039;t need to worry - the dance is brilliant and smooth and stunning to watch. The judges apparently agree, giving it a standing ovation! Christina: Christina&amp;#039;s feeling pretty emotional about the dance - she&amp;#039;s on the verge of tears! She congratulates Stacey, but says Witney and Chehon were not just muses, but the &amp;quot;painters&amp;quot;. She adds that it was &amp;quot;one of the most beautiful things&amp;quot; she&amp;#039;s ever seen, calling Chehon a &amp;quot;stunning&amp;quot; dancer and saying she didn&amp;#039;t see any ballroom in Witney&amp;#039;s performance. &amp;quot;Thank you, thank you, thank you,&amp;quot; she gasps.Mary: Mary&amp;#039;s feeling pretty blown away too! She says they brought Whitney Houston&amp;#039;s voice to life and says the &amp;quot;catch jump thingy&amp;quot; was the best moment on the show to date. She says Witney looked like she was levitating downward while Chehon has &amp;quot;passion&amp;quot;. She concludes that this is the couple&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;most defining moment&amp;quot; in the competition.Nigel: Nigel says he knows it was hard for Witney and Chehon to be in the bottom three, and he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;really proud&amp;quot; that the judges were able to save them. &amp;quot;You were absolutely flawless,&amp;quot; he says. Eliana &amp;amp;amp; Cyrus Secret time! Cyrus reveals that Eliana has been raising birds since she was a kid, but one night slept with one of them and, um, killed it. Ouch! Meanwhile, Eliana jokes that Cyrus&amp;#039;s belly button looks like a power sign and uses it to pretend he&amp;#039;s a robot, turning him on and off. But enough fooling around - Tabitha and Napoleon are here to choreograph a hip-hop routine! The concept is that Eliana is a jewelery box ballerina but Cyrus, a robot, brings her to life. Eliana&amp;#039;s certainly nervous since hip-hop&amp;#039;s so &amp;quot;sharp&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;angular&amp;quot;, while she&amp;#039;s used to ballet. But she certainly seems to do well in the dance, set to District 78 feat. Cheesa&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Toxic&amp;#039;. And the judges give it another standing ovation! Mary: Mary thinks the routine was &amp;quot;fabulous&amp;quot;! She says that Cyrus was &amp;quot;crazy, sick, frozen, good&amp;quot;, while Eliana was &amp;quot;getting down&amp;quot; despite being a ballerina! She praises her for the shoulder and neck oscillations, saying the pair were brilliant.Christina: Christina agrees, calling the dance &amp;quot;so, so fantastic&amp;quot; and entertaining. She thinks Eliana&amp;#039;s one of the best dancers she&amp;#039;s ever seen, adding that though she was worried about her doing hip hop, she did well. As for Cyrus, she admits he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;one lucky dude&amp;quot; as he hasn&amp;#039;t picked contemporary yet - she advises Eliana to help him with barre warm-ups before that turns up! But so far he&amp;#039;s been &amp;quot;sublime&amp;quot;, she adds.Nigel: Nigel admits that taking Cyrus through was a &amp;quot;chance&amp;quot;, but he&amp;#039;s thrilled he picked this routine, saying it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;fantastic&amp;quot; to watch him. He also wants to know where Eliana gets her &amp;quot;swag&amp;quot; from! He admits that she was better than Cyrus in some bits! But he says what Cyrus did is &amp;quot;in a different world&amp;quot;, though he has to translate to other worlds now. &amp;quot;I think he&amp;#039;s going to do it, I really do,&amp;quot; he says.  The Results But now that the dancing is over, we&amp;#039;ve got to get to the serious bit - the results, based on the vote from last week&amp;#039;s show. Who willl be the three girls and three guys with the lowest amount of votes? Here we go: Amber, Lindsay, Eliana, George, Brandon and Dareian. Nigel&amp;#039;s known the result for a while, so do the judges want to see any of the bottom six perform again? Yes, actually - Amber, Eliana, Brandon and Dareian are all going to be returning to the stage for solos. Amber&amp;#039;s first, dancing to Lana Del Rey&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;This Is What Makes Us Girls&amp;#039;, followed by Brandon (performing to Tye Tribbett and G.A.&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Want It All Back&amp;#039;), Eliana (Olafur Arnalds&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Near Light&amp;#039;) and Dareian (&amp;#039;Ordinary People&amp;#039; by John Legend). All they can do now is wait? Before we go any further, there&amp;#039;s a captivating performance from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, but then it&amp;#039;s really time to discover whose So You Think You Can Dance journey is coming to an end. First up are the women!  Nigel reminds them all that they had thousands of votes - just not quite as many as others - and this is a &amp;quot;terrible situation&amp;quot;. He announces that Lindsay has been saved, because she has &amp;quot;got more room to grow&amp;quot; and is doing that. But he&amp;#039;s still &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; Amber and Eliana are in the bottom three... Eventually, he announces that Eliana is safe. &amp;quot;Amber, we love you, and tonight you showed your potential and how brilliant you are,&amp;quot; he says, adding that if America voted based on this show she would be fine. He almost looks kind of angry about the whole situation! But Amber takes it well, later thanking everyone and saying it&amp;#039;s been an &amp;quot;amazing experience&amp;quot;.  Time for the guys! Again, Nigel&amp;#039;s finding the situation &amp;quot;tough&amp;quot; but he says he doesn&amp;#039;t even know why George is in the bottom three after his &amp;quot;fantastic&amp;quot; foxtrot last week - George is safe! He says Dareian has &amp;quot;tricks coming out of [his] sleeves&amp;quot;, adding that he did an &amp;quot;incredible&amp;quot; solo to save his place in the show. So though Brandon did well to come in as a stepper, this is the end for him. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m heartbroken about it, but thank you so much for being on the show and being so great,&amp;quot; Nigel says. Brandon&amp;#039;s also really gracious, saying: &amp;quot;I worked hard to get here and I&amp;#039;m just happy just to get here. It was so fun!&amp;quot; So that&amp;#039;s that... and because of a little thing called the Olympics (pah) we won&amp;#039;t be getting any more So You Think You Can Dance until August 15. Let&amp;#039;s hope time flies! So You Think You Can Dance airs on Fox. 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