Susie And Marquis: We Thought We Could Dance!

Marquis: I don’t personally agree with Nigel’s comment that I had too many tricks because I think it was far from that. Tricks in the dance world are considered acrobatic, gymnastics type of things and I only did two things under than criteria within my routine last night.

I felt I danced like what I was up there to do: dance for my life, remind them why they asked me to be there and lay everything out within that 30 second time frame. I felt I choreographed it to the best of my ability and put just the right amount of tricks around the movement, the flow of the choreography, the music and the audience. But I totally respect Nigel’s opinion, as a judge and as a person.

Susie: I don’t know where the fire went in Nigel’s eyes – I think I still had it in me more than ever. I am known as a fireball and very sassy with a lot of energy, and teachers and mentors have always told me to hold it back a little. I may have taken that and held back so the salsa wouldn’t seem fake or the facial expressions “out there”. But, they wanted to see more – you just never know what they’re going to say or what they see. The fire was still there and unfortunately it wasn’t enough.

Backstage On So You Think You Can Dance

Marquis: The schedule is very rigourous. There was not one day when we were not dancing – there were about 12 hours a day of rehearsal time as well as what we did on our own in our apartments.