Jennifer Lopez’s World of Dance, Season 1, Week ONE – LIVE Blog

Okay, folks, here we go!! The first episode of World of Dance. Let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint.  If you have followed PureDWTS for  a few years, you know we have series that we do every week for that show; if you have ideas for series for this show, please let us know in the comments and we’ll consider them.  Of course, we need to see the format of the show first. 😉

Love the photo in this tweet – be sure to use that hashtag A LOT tonight during the show. 😉

Why does America’s got Talent always make me cry??

Okay, here we go!!

Okay, there are four rounds: The Qualifiers, the Duels, The Cut and the divisional final. Then in the world final the three division finalists will go head to head.

Wow, this is a lot more complicated than other dance shows – but I think this is good considering the prize and the talent. This is the sort of scoring we always wanted from DWTS.

I suspect that the choreo on this show will shut out DWTS starting next year – for the foreseeable future?

Ya’ll, we are doing profiles of the contestants as possible – if you want to add info to these profiles, just comment. We need all the help we can get.

Super Crew is up first. From Las Vegas. Okay that fan move was cool as hell. Agree with JLo asking “What am I watching.” Pretty cool, but I’ll be the first to admit this isn’t my favorite style.

They were very good. Agree with NeYo that they made it look so easy. Maybe that’s why it was harder for me.

The scoring is….very interesting. I dig it. It takes everything into account, so if your execution is great but your choreographer isn’t all that, you don’t necessarily get left out in the cold.

I love the explanation of the scoring.

Yay!! D’Angelo and Amanda!! We bloggers are ballroom watchers, so we’re going to be a bit more excited. Love the package for these two. They’re all grown up!

Whoo. Started a bit slow but seriously started to kick ass. Was worried for a minute but that was excellent! Great tricks! Fairly advanced even compared to what I’ve seen DWTS pros do.

Okay, Les Twins are too cute. Just sayin’. And they’re silly too, which I appreciate. Don’t take themselves too seriously.

Unfortunately I wasn’t that impressed with their dancing until at the end. I mean, it was good, but I wasn’t wowed. But dang they are so cute!

Not seeing what the judges are seeing here. They were good, but not that much better than those who came before them. :::shrug::: Ah well, different strokes and all that.

CLOGGING!?! Awesome. Love Jenna giving it a shot with them. Myrtle Beach? Okay. NXT LVL is their name, clogging is their game. It looks like tap to me and for that reason I love it. I love the sync. Pretty cool.

Why is it clogging and not tap?? Anyone? Anyone? I think I agree with JLo and NeYo more than Derek. But Derek is a tapper so he might lean more that way. Then again, he only gave them an 80. Our first cut of the night.

Keone and Mari are up next. Love the dude’s hat. Okay, I LOVED that. That was charming…but what that a jive? Or jazz?? Either way, I loved it. Tremendous. 85 is good – I personally liked it better than Les Twins who had a much higher score.

KinJaz – starting kinda scary. 🙂 Wow. Super cool. The synchronicity was amazing.

Diana Pombo – I believe we’ve done a profile on her. This girl is amazing.

The dancing was reflecting the music beautifully. I feel like the is right up Derek’s street.

“Miss JLo” – love it. Love the shot of the Diana’s mom wrapped around Jenna. Good score – I love this girl.

The Qualifiers continue next week! We’ll be here. Hope you will be too. 🙂