In a virtuosic performance that recalled Brett's Angry Dance from Flight of the Conchords for its brute strength, physical prowess, and sheer, exhilarating artistry, 25-year-old contestant James Davis of Crossville, TN rendered So You Think You Can Dance's judging panel stunned virtually speechless with a two-minute, 100% irony-free tribute to the Great Solo Movie Dance Sequences of the 1980s that lacked nothing save perhaps an overturned bucket of water and some backlighting. Stunningly, he was not moved on to the next level of competition, but his newly expanded fanbase can take heart, as Davis is still thrilling hungry, Curtain Call Dinner Theater audiences eight times a week in an all-white production of The Last Dragon: The Musical.

• So You Think You Can Dance [Fox]

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