America’s Best Dance Crew

With only 2 more episodes left in America’s Best Dance Crew, who will be crowned Sea­son 3’s win­ner. I think it should be Quest Crew. They’ve been con­sis­tently clean, cre­ative with their rou­tines, and given over­all the­atri­cal per­for­mances. You could, for the most part, take them straight from the stage after one week of prac­tice and put them in a music video.

The ques­tion is, will Amer­ica vote for another Asian crew to be the win­ner. We’ve been buck­ing stereo­types for two sea­son with Jab­baWac­k­eeZ and a major­ity of Super Cr3w being of Asian descent. Now Quest Crew is claw­ing at a three-peat. They’re prob­a­bly the most sex­ual of the three crews and I for one am proud to have that type of rep­re­sen­ta­tion in main­stream media. It’s a hell of a lot bet­ter than those androg­y­nous clog­gers. But don’t even get me started on them.

It will be inter­est­ing to see if Amer­ica and the pro­duc­ers of ABDC let Asians dom­i­nate in an arena where main­stream Amer­ica prob­a­bly never knew we even had a pres­ence. But hip-hop danc­ing flows strong in our blood and is huge all over Asia. Japan­ese dancers are so ded­i­cated, they take the train in from the sub­urbs into Tokyo every night and prac­tice rou­tines using their reflec­tions in shiny sky­scraper win­dows. The trains stop at 1am so the B-boys and girls just prac­tice all night until the trains start again. Check out Planet B-Boy if you need fur­ther proof.

As a real­ity tele­vi­sion pro­ducer, I find it hard to watch real­ity tele­vi­sion with­out a cer­tain amount of cyn­i­cism. For that rea­son, I rarely watch real­ity shows. Short of Top Chef and Project Run­way, I stay away from most real­ity and have never even watched a full episode of that Amer­i­can tele­vi­sion main­stay Amer­i­can Idol. But some­thing about ABDC has kept me tun­ing in. There’s a lot of pas­sion in these crews and their desire to win shows. It’s the same for­mula as Project Run­way and Top Chef. You take gen­uine peo­ple with an uncom­pro­mis­able amount of deter­mi­na­tion and spirit, and you just let the camera’s roll. So you can bet, I’ll be watch­ing the finals and root­ing for Quest Crew.