I was all excited last week that Bravo was not giving in to the whole, "I'm doing this competition for my family member with a terminal disease. I spoke too soon. Oscar is apparently doing this for his mother with liver cancer. Do contestants on non-dance competition shows do it all for their dying family members? I never noticed that on any of the other Bravo shows, but I don't watch American Idol, etc.

Woo hoo! (I originally typed, "Woo ho!" which kind-of works too) Burlesque! The whole prostitute/pimp thing bothered me a little, but it definitely gave them enough of a starting point to go out on a limb with it. I've never heard of this traditional "apache" dance that they were doing - they seemed to imply it was some kind of Parisian cabaret thing? I don't much care for the whole sex-and-violence is sexy thing. There are much cooler aspects of burlesque they could have chosen for the challenge.

I love that they had the groups choreograph their own dances.  I think a really good dancer has to understand how dances come together, and can do more than just follow someone else's direction. I enjoyed the first group's tableau, but the 2nd team - am I the only one who was waiting for the guys to bust out into, "When you're a Jet, You're a Jet all the way"?

I am disappointed that they gave James the boot this week. Based on his dancing last week, I had high hopes for him, though he did seem really lackluster tonight.