1st Semi Finals Review

Its Sunday Night fever all over again! And the Semi Finals are finally here! In conclusion, it was a very interesting round to see how the different teams could interpret their given theme 80s. Kudos to the Dhool team for bringing up the competition to the next level by incorporating it with themes and letting the groups battle it out. This gives it a very tight feel of how a competition should be, unlike the previous Dhools. Its good that all the groups have to come out with new choreography rather than them reusing their own stuff. Its a face of challenge to see who makes the best out of a situation being out of their comfort zones. Now first Lets look at the 3 groups who made their way through to the Finals.

RSR

These girls put up an awfully new concept for the Semi's! And you know what? We SO dig it! The '80s famous Yindian ugly betty' hair and the half saree's with metallic - coloured jackets over them just screams 80's!!! And Rajini, we don't even need to elaborate on that. What we loved in their dance was the fact that the girls weren't afraid to express horrible, horrible face expressions to depict them being the 'oorex's' they were suppose to be!"Anybody can kiss me!!! Vait vait vait a minute, vithout touchinggg me!", that was uber funny! Expressions are a definite improvement from when we've seen them in the beginning. Keep up the good work, girls! Special shoutout to the Girl in Red jacket! Girl! You did justice to the whole song with your expressions and dance moves! With that cute lip sync it just add well to the whole concept and character. Well done! Their semi's are a definite improvement from their Quarters. Very creative. We can't wait to see what these girls have in store for us in the Finals. You go girls, make Yindian females in Singapore proud!

Tridiac

Lets face it, Tridiac their forte lies in Hip Hop. So attempting to do something out of the box for 80's did prove to be a little bit of a challenge for these boys. And it was evident that these boys had abit of a difficulty executing the dance according to the theme. Mmm... Their piece was awfully messy, with alot of people running here and there, running in and out of formations. Come to think about it, our Dance2This crew thinks that there wasn't sufficient practice, given the amount of time they had (which was actually quite alot). It's actually quite sad to see something like this happening, because firstly, there’s alot of hype when it comes to these boys, and because expectations were high, even a small let down seems over exaggerated.

Having said that, the idea of the concept was good even though it was 'inspired' from somewhere, its quite safe to say that it suited their chosen song well. Satish did a good job in pulling off the rich man look. And the rest... lets just say that they did a good job as... veleikaarans Haha, joke'u boys joke'u. Well anyways, these boys were among your choice of who should be in. We hope they give us more dance and less action in the Finals!

Killabeez

Clear cut one of the best dance for the night! Killabeez have won our hearts back! After a disappointing Quarter Finals performance, they really brainstormed and came up with something new. It was a really enjoyable dance to watch. We could see that the beez tried, and what can we say, they pulled it off well! Fantastic job boys, you guys are back on the map! Welcome back! And the thing that we have been noticing about these beez are that they enjoy experimenting with new formations, other then the usual boring ones that we always see. That’s definitely a plus plus.

And we couldn't resist but write on this. The 2nd round! Killabeez were hilarious with a capital H! The idea of a spaceman and a caveman is quite corny but both of them did a wonderful job. We were laughing off our seats! The space suit 'mandae' lookes a tad bit too big for his head though, that just added to our amusement. Great job and congrats fellas!

On the Fence

Kali Dancers

In contrary to what many people have to say, Kali Dancers, in our eyes, didn't do as bad as many people claim. Their costumes, energy and expression were very well done. After watching them a couple of times we think it's safe to say that these are the 3 aspects in which Kali excel at. And their infusion of many different types of dance into their piece is also a commendable effort. Although we did like Kali in the Semi's, there was 1 thing which we totally hated. Wrong wrong wrong song choice. Like Sri Devi said, there’s so many other songs out there, why this one? None of us got the hang of the song, so we are guessing that there’s one major put off point. Maybe these folks wanted to give us something new? Might that explain the awful song choice? We don't know. It's sad to see these dancers go. But for what they were worth in Dhool, they gave everyone else a tough fight!

Shoutouts to Synchronix and Anarchy

Fantastic fantastic fantastic effort. You guys have been giving us a new performance 3 weeks in a row and we think that that alone is a big achievement! It would have been much better if the organizers had put all the wildcard teams in the finals, to give ample time in getting a new piece ready, but they didn't and that decision did not work to either both your benefits. Mmmm... Anyways, why did both these teams end up in the first Semi's? A little illogical, if you ask us. But what’s done is done, and we just wanted to give the both of you our shoutouts! It is really hard to come up with an idea, choreography, costumes and props in one week. Its definitely an effort worth mentioning. Our hearts goes out to the both of you teams! You guys have made a name for yourself in Dhool'08 and put up a good competition till now. So keep the passion alive guys!

Having said that, we did see alot of effort put into this weeks performance by all the teams. It was really enjoyable to watch all the teams put up their act. As we sadly bid our goodbyes to the 3 teams that have been eliminated this week, we can't help but wonder which 3 teams we will have to say bye bye to next week. The competition is running on full force and if you don't keep up with it, you just might be the ones bidding audieu. We cannot wait for the next Semi's featuring:

Agni Reloaded

Apsara Asia

Aerocratz

Chakraz

Mera Naan Joker

Version 2.8

You must be kidding us! All the big names chucked into the 2nd Semi Finals! We see a tough battle in store. Who will reign? Its up to you!