America's Next Top Model: You Can Dance, For Inspiration
Nine girls remain on America's Next Top Model and this week it's all about dancing. Now that they know how to smize, Tyra wants the contestants to learn to smize without their eyes. So the girls head out to a dance studio where they meet up with Lil Mama, Benny Ninja and the Jabbawockeez dance crew, who bust out the moves and show the girls how to express emotion without the advantage of a face.
Gotta dance
The challenge this week involves the models choreographing and then performing in groups of threes. They must wear masks and bring out the emotions of happiness, sadness and anger with their movement alone. And they have to perform after the Jabbawockeez dancers. Slightly intimidating. The winning team gets $17,000 in jewels. It's a good start but seriously, these girls need some new clothing.
When it comes to dancing, Martha Graham they ain't
Everyone figured that Ashley's team would rock the competition because she's the yadda yadda dancer in the group, but her group's performance ends up being confusing and downright weird. As it turns out, Jennifer, Kara and Rae had the best body expression according to the judges so the jewels go to them!
If it's time to relax it's time to whine
Naturally, Ashley is bitter, but she's always bitter after a challenge. But instead of wallowing, she calls her moms, and mom comes through with a great pep talk. Heck, we even got cheered up. And we enjoy cranky.
Meanwhile, Kara has become quite a complainer. She and Jennifer get catty about Nicole's "stoner voice." We adore quirky Nicole but we're starting to think that there's something a little more stoner to her than her voice. She forgets things really easily, she's somewhat antisocial and if we see her with the munchies anytime soon we'll know why.
4:30 a.m. is a time to milk cows, not model
The girls are pulled out of bed at the crack by a video message from Jay who tells them to pack their bags cuz they’re doing their next photo shoot in Vegas. They are surprised with a Cirque Du Soleil shoot where some of the gals were most likely hoping that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Once again they're working in groups. The girls must pose with a bunch of freak-of-nature performers from Mystère and with three other models. Some used the lessons they've learned in the last few weeks and some completely disregarded it all.
They should serve fierce juice at panel
Panel was a bit different this time around as all of the girls had to be judged in their group. Talk about stress! When it came to the final photos Jennifer, Ashley and Nicole brought down the shots. But because her fellow models were so strong, Jennifer was spared from the bottom two...this time. Rae, Laura and Sundai were the strongest, which isn't surprising at all. The three have been pretty solid throughout the competition. Karen and Ashley (the dancer!) ended up at the bottom two and in the end it was Ashley who had to sashay off into the sunset.
Great quotes—hilarity ensues
"I'm buck naked." Laura when Jay wakes the models out of bed at 4:30 in the morning
"The hair is amazing. The makeup is amazing. The outfits are amazing. The photographer is amazing. If anything goes wrong, I’m %#@*ing it up." Jennifer on her Cirque Du Soleil photo shoot
"I don't know what's up with her. I think she's taking some fierce juice." Tyra on Laura’s hot photos