PureDWTS Season 18 Food For Thought & Poll: Possible New Pro…?
So my friend Amanda over at PureSYTYCD shot me a tweet this afternoon – she gets to go to the SYTYCD live show tonight in Atlanta, and she happened to run into some of the cast at the mall earlier today. She apparently got to talk to Du-Shaunt “Fik-Shun” Stegall (co-winner of the most recent season of SYTYCD), and according to him, someone from his season “will be on DWTS next season”. He didn’t specify who, and he didn’t specify whether they’d be a pro or in the troupe – but there were 4 ballroom dancers on SYTYCD this season, so I figure he must be referring to one of them (although stranger things have happened…look at Tyne).
Yes, it’s probably a bit early for anyone to know for sure whether they’ll be on the show next season, but it did get me thinking: maybe TPTB are already scouting out new talent for next season, and they want to go fishing in the SYTYCD pool once more…so it might be possible that they’ve at least been “in talks” with some of the ballroom dancers from season 10 of SYTYCD about coming over to DWTS. If so…who could it be?
The four possible choices are Brittany Cherry, Jenna Johnson, Alan Bersten, and Paul Karmiryan. Both Brittany & Jenna are part of the VIBE family that gave us Lindsay & Witney, so I’m guessing that by extension, they’ve also worked with Mark on more than one occasion. Both ladies have also appeared in guest dance numbers on DWTS before (see below – Brittany’s the brunette on the left, Jenna’s the one on the right). I don’t know quite as much about the guys – I know Paul actually won the Armenian version of SYTYCD a few years back and lives in California, and Alan comes from a dance family (his older brother also auditioned for SYTYCD, but the judges chose Alan) and lives in Minnesota.
If this little nugget of info is true, who do you guys think will be joining us on DWTS next season?
I’m personally leaning towards Jenna – she’s the VIBE connection, she went pretty far on SYTYCD, and she seems to have the same “big” personality on the floor that we see from Witney. Definite troupe material, IMO. Not sure I’d want any of these 4 to proceed straight to pro, but I think any of them would make a decent addition to the troupe. What do you guys think? Do you think we’ll be seeing any of these dancers gracing the DWTS floor next year?
Thanks for this Courtney! I think if they’re going to bring anybody up they’re going to go to troupe. You never know, but maybe they learned their lesson with Lindsay and needing more choreography experience.
I personally think they would go with Paul and/or Jenna. Paul made it the furthest of all the ballroom dancers and if they need a guy it could be him (especially if Derek would leave and Henry got promoted). If girls I think Jenna as well but you never know as she didn’t connect well with the audience. They probably could have gotten Brittany this season if they wanted her as she’s not on tour. But she’s witneys roommate and good friends with troupe lurker serge. I doubt it’s Alan, I think he’s really lucky he made it as far as he did. Him and Jenna both were in the bottom two again.
Thanks again for passing this along! Now I’m interested to see what will happen.
I don’t know, maybe Jenna. But I have to say I’m not terribly impressed with either Witney or Lindsay (I DESPISE Witney’s expressions while dancing – that so called fierceness only bugs me). I do think Chelsie and Lacey were good finds, even if they aren’t still working on the show as pros. I’m all for new blood – especially if that means Tony/Cheryl/Peta etc take a break.
I knew it would happen,I think it’ll be Paul or Jenna,however I wish it was no one! The ballroom dancers that have been on SYTYCD haven’t really impressed me,and if they must e in the show I say we see them in the troupe! I do not want a Lindsay repeat! I love most of them while they are on SYTYCD but not my dwts!
I doubt there would be a firm yes to that pro yet. But maybe so.
I’m guessing Jenna or Paul since they lasted the longest. DWTS doesn’t usually go for the SYTYCD dancers that didn’t make it to at least the halfway point of that show. Jenna was talented but I didn’t care for her personality. I would prefer Paul, he seemed more likeable and I think he was great on SYTYCD and showed himself capable of adapting well to many dance styles. It would be interesting to see if he could be as creative as Derek/Mark/those others with dance backgrounds in more than just ballroom with choreography.
I’ll bite on this one….my guess is that Paul would be their first choice. He comes with a legion of young fans and he’s pretty charismatic.
Jenna would be the second choice, but she was a pretty divisive personality on SYTYCD season 10.
I would think a tall male would be needed. Hopefully Tony will not be on next season and I bet Val could be iffy. If he wins this season he probably will be too exhausted and if he doesn’t win he will be disgusted.
That leaves only sweetheart Tristan for taller women.
The ballroom dances on SYTYCD are only as good as the choreographer and this past season nothing stands out in my mind. But then, they all pale next to Louis’ AT that he did a couple seasons ago. Nothing has matched that and I don’t even like Louis!
Paul. Jenna moly made it far because the judges kept saving her despite falling to the bottom week after week. Says something when dwts might choose from weak sytycd ballroom dancers while scd took Anya, pasha, Artem, iveta, Karen, janette. It is like dwts is going for like kids/young dancers who have not there yet. Give me those pros sytycd alums on scd over any on this poll.not to mention janette, Anya and pasha did great and better than Witney or Lindsay in other styles.
I would hope that it would be Paul or Brittany. I liked Brittany on the show, even though she didn’t last very long – plus, she and a partner won one of the kid’s competitions DWTS did on the results show awhile back. I think they did them for two seasons.
Paul was enjoyable and charismatic, and has a nice personality. However, he’s a little on the short side.
I did *not* really enjoy Jenna at all, and was hoping for her to go all season. Her personality was a bit annoying, and the dancing didn’t make up for it. The judges saved her numerous times, so she wasn’t getting the votes.
At first I thought it would be Jenna, but I think it will probably be Paul. He was popular and they’d probably love to have a male dancer from SYTYCD. They’ve brought a bunch of the females already.
Just got home about 30 mins ago from the show and I’ll have my thoughts on the entire show on puresytycd sometime tomorrow. I will say this is was impressed with Jenna, Alan and Paul(well I’ve always like him). They really found away to work ballroom numbers into the show.
I’m good with current pros. If producers decide to get rid of male pro,I think it is time for Tony to go and they can bring Gleb or Dimitry back,
As for female Lindsay and Witney didn’t impress me at all. I’d rather have Emma and if Cheryl sit out, bring Chelsie back. I can say new pros,who came from troupe doing wonderful job, Sharna is pleasure to watch and this season new pros Sasha Farber and Emma Slater doing a terrific job with they stars.
I’m good with current pros. If producers decide to get rid of male pro,I think it is time for Tony to go and they can bring Gleb or Dimitry back,
As for female Lindsay and Witney didn’t impress me at all. I’d rather have Emma and if Cheryl sit out, bring Chelsie back. I can say new pros,who came from troupe doing wonderful job, Sharna is pleasure to watch and this season new pros Sasha Farber and Emma Slater doing a terrific job with they stars. If TPTB need to bring new faces, they should start with the troupe.
I can’t really judge being I don’t watch SYTYCD enough, but, one dancer I wish they’d think of getting is ANNA ROSH (from “Take The Lead” and she’s in the new DWTS work out DVD with Karina and Kym. I think she also works at Karina’s studio). I just love her.
I hope it’s Paul. It seemed like he was really popular with both a younger and older crowd on the show.
I don’t dislike Jenna as much as some do, but I agree that she needs to dial down the facial expressions some.
Alan is tall, but he’s still too green to move into a troupe or pro spot. He needs a few more years of seasoning.
Does anyone know if Brandon, Brittany’s partner in that kids competition thing DWTS did some years ago still dances?
Man that kid was impressive as hell.
Just so you know, none of the ballroom dancers have gotten offers as of yet. That’s what Paul told me. Looks like these are just rumors!
Brandon then went on to partner Lindsay and danced with her when she auditioned for SYTYCD. I believe the reason/one of the reasons he didn’t audition was that he was due to do his LDS mission?
Right, Catie – and we should just go ahead and take your word for it. No thanks.
I guess it’s Brittany. She won that first DwtS kid competition and was on Lacey’s team on that Ballroom Battle segment. I like her =]
I like Paul but he has no standard ballroom background as he told last sytycd season…
Maybe one of this four could be a troupe member. Aa for this, I just wanted to see Witney and Henry as pro next season.
I think it will be Jenna or Paul, because they made it farthest. I know a lot of people here are assaying that they don’t like Jenna, but I loved her and hope that she makes it onto DWTS! Paul was a lot of fun to watch as well. I’ve been saying since So You Think ended that someone would go on to DWTS, and I guess I was right!