Who Says Asians Can't Dance?

Sylvie Kim
March 3, 2008

Both teams are consistently praised for technical skill and creativity and have thus far managed to garner votes from both judges and the American public to give them slots in the top five.

My only grievance?

The last episode had each team assigned movie character archetypes to incorporate into a performance. Kaba Modern’s Asian American male and female members got slapped with the roles of nerds and hotties, respectively. Come on, MTV. You couldn’t think of anything else?

You can catch all the teams’ performances online at Mtv.com.

Contributor: 

Sylvie Kim

contributing editor & blogger

Sylvie Kim is a contributing editor at Hyphen. She previously served as Hyphen's blog coeditor with erin Khue Ninh, film editor, and blog columnist.

She writes about gender, race, class and privilege in pop culture and media (fun fun fun!) at www.sylvie-kim.com and at SF Weekly's The Exhibitionist blog. Her work has also appeared on Racialicious and Salon.

Comments

Comments

lisalee wrote on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 11:09pm
hahaha and the jabbawockeez had to play thieves. nice. but yeah, the nerd thing was... too coincidental... although i must say, i do have a soft spot for nerds. by the way, is there a different between nerds & geeks? seems like nerds are sexier than geeks...
RELAX wrote on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 11:03am
I like the show, I just dont see how Fish and Chicks beat Live in Color, who were one of the favorites, wow!. Im interested to see who will win.
lisalee wrote on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 1:03pm
i know! i can't believe live in color went down. i really liked them. i thought their routines were fun, VERY energetic, and above all, clean. well, cleaner than fysh's. ergh.
sylvie wrote on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 3:01pm
That, and "Fysh n' Chicks" is the worst name ever. I always think "Surf n' Turf."
lisalee wrote on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 4:02pm
for the longest time... i thought their name was fish and chips. hahaha. i was like what the hell kind of a name is that?! if i had a dance group... i'd name it... dancing dinos. i don't know.
RELAX wrote on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:58pm
After looking at this weeks show I think Brake and Skate had the overall best performance, followed by the Jabwackees. Even though the judges like Kabba Modern routine, I think they are going to battle it out with Status Qou next week as the bottom twq, who will win, I dont know. Interesting to see.
JD wrote on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 12:33am
Video of jabbawockeezhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=phsHglfDL7g
lisalee wrote on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 10:25pm
i hope they make it big someway, or somehow after this show is over. i mean, having money is one thing, but actually making it is another. maybe janet will ask them to be her back up dancers for her new album.
RELAX wrote on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 11:54pm
Maybe so, the only knock I have against the show is its to commercial, the only people that will take them seriously are the likes of Janet Jackson and Madonnas. I hate the way they both dance.