SYTYCD - Early Favorites

I was just about to sit down to watch the Vegas callbacks (so exciting) but realized I never put my running list of favorites from the audition round out. I intended to cull further and include video links, but that ain't gonna happen (and besides, if it were anything other than dance, reader-Julie (as opposed to listmaker-Julie) probably wouldn't watch a video anyway).

Faves:

• Jade Zuberi - animation
• Mackenzie Dustman* - contemporary
• Jennifer Jones* - jazz
• Tommy Tibball* - contemporary
• Jennie Begley - contemporary
• Anthony Savoy* - contemporary (the one who gracefully accepted being sent to choreography even though they fully intended to send him straight to Vegas, duh, they were just showing what humility looks like)
• Kate Kapshandy* - ballroom (the one with the long face and long blonde ponytail who's a national champion of some sort(s))
• Caleb Brauner - contemporary (bowtie guy)
• Jasmine Harper* - contemporary (Cyrus's ex gf)
• Jenna Johnson - ballroom (danced with the 17 year-old guy)

* Predict Top 20

Also great:

• Amy Yakima - contemporary
• Alex Kessinger - contemporary
• Misha & Merilla - ballroom
• Jason Kidd - white guy breaker
• Alexis Juliano - tap (with a half shirt and a bellyring to "Mr. Bojangles" but pretty impressive nonetheless) (but also: it is pretty hard for a tap dancer to do well in, say, ballroom)

Wow, what a boring list except for me to look back and see how wrong I am. I'm pretty sure there are about 50 great dancers who've gotten no airtime yet.