So You Think You Can Dance: Rayven And Jamie Take A Bow

Jamie: We both went out there out of our element and did a completely different style. Doing hip hop was really difficult, especially coming from ballroom! It was a really challenging experience but we both worked really hard on the routine. We spent a lot of extra time in the gym in the evening through the night working on it, and we went out there and did our best. We both did really well for a ballroom dancer and ballerina!

We had a really fun routine, which played into both of our abilities and personalities and we had so much fun with it. The choreographers came up with the idea for Rayven to pull down my pants, and we just do what the choreographers tell us to do! That’s the business in the dance world; you can’t really tell them no… but I also have no shame!

Is First Up Bad Luck?

Jamie: I think Nigel’s comment that performing first might have had an effect on the way viewers voted has a lot of truth to it. Everyone votes at the end of the show and Nigel obviously knows how the show works; he has a lot of validity when he’s talking about how first people have a hard time. If you look at past seasons, the first people to perform always have a hard time with America. We also didn’t have much airtime during the auditions so when we went out there, it was the first time America had ever seen us.

Rayven: Timing is everything and it’s possible that the timing wasn’t there for us. I definitely know we did an excellent job.