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Sep 8, 2013 · Official website: http://www.miamichaels.comTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/MMRAWOpening Group Number - Mia Michaels - SYTYCD 10 (Top 8)....As Seen On ©Fox T...
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When So You Think You Can Dance returned for its ninth season, Michaels returned to the show and choreographed the Top 20 group performance. In 2012, Michaels choreographed for the film Rock of Ages. In 2015, she provided the choreography for the Broadway musical Finding Neverland.
SeasonWeekDancersDance Style2Destini Rogers Blake McGrath2Ashlé Dawson Artem Chigvintsev5Kamilah Barrett Nick Lazzarini7Ashlé Dawson Melody Lacayanga- “This Bitter Earth/On The Nature of Daylight”
- “Adagio For Strings”
- “The Moment I Said It”
- “Mercy”
- “Hometown Glory”
- “Calling You”
- “Gravity”
Michaels makes a literal concept feel subtle better than anyone in the business. This meditation on growing older could have easily gone too far over the top, but in her hands, the piece is a sad, bittersweet triumph (one that won her an Emmy). And it doesn't hurt that it's performed by three of the show's best contemporary/ballet dancers.
The one new routine to come out of season 9's tribute to Michaels was this unexpectedly devastating number about hatred. Inspired by fighting rams, Michaels handed two of the season's most technical dancers a physically demanding piece, and they danced it with abandon. It's a late-season entry that tends to get overlooked, but "Adagio for Strings" ...
Sit with Mia Michaels' unapologetic eccentricity and enjoy it. This season 3 group routine is haunting, from the stark lighting to the way it uses the edge of the stage, and it defies explanation in a way that sticks with you.
Michaels is known for tapping into tough emotions, but she brought out her playful side for this Emmy-nominated breakup routine — which, she told EW in 2012, was inspired by a relationship that ended with a conversation through a doorway. "I took it to an extreme, and I made almost a comedy out of it," Michaels said. Her choreography doesn't shy aw...
This is the assisted run to end all assisted runs. Another of the routines chosen for Michaels' tribute episode, "Hometown Glory" is an often imitated but never duplicated piece that relies entirely on its dancers' interdependence. Michaels described the routine to EW as the "cross between a friendship and a very healthy competition." Season 4's Ka...
The routine that won Michaels her first Emmy is still one of her best. Remembered only as "The Bench" (and starring a future Emmy-winning choreographer, Travis Wall), "Calling You" cuts through the set piece and the sweet flower prop to tell a clear-eyed story about two people in a dying relationship. The image of Travis and Heidi staring at each o...
Michaels — and, really, the show as a whole — never packed a more emotional punch. Inspired by Michael Jackson's death ("I think all of America stopped — everyone kind of gasped," she told EW in 2012), Michaels tells a raw and all-too-resonant story about "the darkness of addiction" and how hard it is to escape: Kupono is alternately sticky and sti...
Dec 1, 2020 · On Oct. 14, just moments after appearing on a Vegas-week episode of So You Think You Can Dance, she shocked fans across America, announcing (via Twitter) that she was leaving the show...
Mia Michaels (SYTYCD Judge) interview at "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 7 Premiere Party at Trousdale in West Hollywood,Ca USA May 27, 2010 - Interview ...
Dec 1, 2020 · After five seasons as an Emmy-winning choreographer and part-time judge on So You Think You Can Dance, Mia Michaels took time off last season to work on other projects. Now back as a full-time...
For season 7, So You Think You Can Dance averaged just over 5 million viewers. After season 7, Mia Michaels was replaced on the judge's panel by returning personality Mary Murphy. The change appeared to have little effect on the ratings, and the show continued to average just over five million viewers per episode in 2011's season 8.
