So You Think You Can Dance Australia

Final 16 Performances (2x11)

Air date: Mar 02, 2009

After an outstanding Top 16 night watched by special guests, Jack and Kate, who knows who’ll be leaving Monday. Early favourites, Penny & Charlie, Ben & Gianne and Kat & Danny again delivered stellar routines but other contenders are now nipping at their heels. Ben & Pania krumped their way into the leading pack, Emmanuel left his b-boy behind and Amy was guided by Jason Gilkison to a “defining moment”. Who will you save? Who will they cut? Have your say and vote! #1 Chanelle & Loredo – Aladdin and his Genie Dancing out of their genres once more, Chanelle & Loredo opened the show with an Aladdin-themed Hip Hop routine by Andrew Sears where Chanelle “again had to be sexy”. Genie Chanelle rubbed the lamp and wished she could produce a killer routine that was the best of the night. Would her wish be granted? Matt didn’t think being sexy could be difficult for Chanelle when she was “so gorgeous”. However he wanted her to stop thinking and lose herself while Loredo had “hit everything”. Bonnie said Chanelle was “just a beautiful dancer” and she should “stop worrying”. A couple of moments of unison troubled Jason, and he felt Chanelle might have been pushing too hard. He said her partner had a lot of “performance mojo” and that she should be careful he didn’t outdance her. “Loredo, you owned that!” #2 Penny & Charlie – Touching without touching Everyone’s been waiting to see whether Penny & Charlie could translate their high energy appeal into a more sensitive genre and tonight we found out. Dancing a Kelly Aykers’ Contemporary routine to The Fray’s “You found me”, they had to be touching without physically touching. Bonnie thought their floorwork was “beautiful” and felt “quite choked” with emotion. Penny was “so not just a cheergirl” and it was “intoxicating”. Jason C had a minor technical criticism for Penny but “loved it, loved it, loved it” and “so embraced the Penny”. Matt