Tag: tabitha and napoleon d'umo

"SYTYCD" Season 15 Recap: Welcome to The Academy

After four speedy rounds of solo auditions, we’ve arrived at The Academy! If you’ve been living in “So You Think You Can Dance” Land for a long time (shout-out to everyone who was alive and watching back when Nick Lazzarini won Season 1 in 2005), The Academy is the new Vegas Week, when the narrowed-down […]

10 Signs You're a True "So You Think You Can Dance" Fan

“So You Think You Can Dance” has everything a dance show needs: crazy judges, incredible talent, famous choreographers, and heartwarming stories. Whether you’re on your second season or your 15th, if you’re a true “SYTYCD” fan, you can relate to the following signs of true-blue fandom. 1. You scream “judges” (or, really, “jidges”) at your […]

Letter to My Teenage Self: Tabitha and Napoleon D'Umo

The dance gods must have been smiling when Tabitha and Napoleon D’umo first met at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Who would have guessed that an army veteran from California (Napoleon) and a cheerleader from New Jersey (Tabitha) would join forces and eventually take over the commercial hip-hop world? (Photo by Jennifer Johnson, courtesy […]

NappyTabs Taught Ed Sheeran to Dance

Hearthrob McHearthrobberson Ed Sheeran has been on a bit of a dance kick recently. A few weeks ago, the charming Brit featured Phillip Chbeeb in the video for his hit song “Don’t,” with Chbeeb popping and locking his way up the social ladder. Yesterday, Sheeran released another dance-y video, this time for his latest single, […]

"So You Think You Can Dance" Season 11 Recap: The Top 10 Perform

The “So You Think You Can Dance” Top 10: By definition, that’s a pretty rarefied crowd. At this point in the competition there are no obvious weak links in the contestant lineup, so eliminations are starting to feel…weird. We’re invested in all the remaining dancers, which means, to horribly misquote Sheryl Crow, now every cut […]

Let's Talk About Those Emmy Award Dance Numbers

If you’re like me, you were really, really sad for the first half of last night’s Emmy Awards. Song-and-dance king Neil Patrick Harris was hosting, and we’d been promised big, dance-y things. But for more than an hour there was nary a dancer in sight. Then came the middle of the show. And there was […]