If she was 13-14 in this clip, this is truly amazing. My daughter is 14 and has been dancing since very young. She is nowhere near this level of skill.
What unbelievable flexibility at 1:55. By the way, if this video was posted on December 15th, 2005 it was performed sometime before being filmed. This makes her 14 or even 13 depending on the performance date. What a precocious dancer. I loved each and every SYTYCD routine and could care less what others have to say about her. She is a unique talent.
exactly Kayla is equally talented a dancer, if not, even better than Jeanine. But Jeanine is so on point in her routines also...they're both incredible, it was just a matter of who America and the judges liked better in the end.
I know right! Everyone keeps defending Jeanine and saying Kayla "lacked feeling"....I'm like, "you idiots!" Kayla was nicknamed 'White Lightening" and a "star" by the judges because of how much she shines...she just has this charisma and she picked up different styles and always nailed them like a pro even when she had no experience in them b4.....like the Latin ballroom piece when Max was her partner, the younger male judge said "babe, it looked like you were born in a ballroom"
dancemusiclovelife, look around you! you're outnumbered by stubborn supporters of Kayla....and whatever you saw, is whatever because Kayla had passion and charisma when she danced it was actually so obvious to the judges they nicknamed her the "white lightening" star so eat your hearts out Jeanine fans. Like I think Jeanine is just as talented, if not, more but you can't take away Kayla's credit.
eat our hearts out? Jeanine is just as a star kayla is. Jeanine is fabulous and amazing. She's unique and Kayla may have great technique but she lacks at actual dancing. I bet if she went to example a club..it sucks. Her solos she tries to put too much. Like she barely de a pas de chat once.
@4lifeKid Debbie Allen called her White Lightening cuz she is all white ( hair , skin and so on) if she was better than Jeanine ( which I don't think she was) she would be America's Favorite Dancer Season 5 or at least get further than top 4
k hun.....it's my opinion tho still. Search "Kayla and Max Samba" and you'll see why Kalya inspired me as a dancer....before that week's challenge, she had no experience whatsoever in ballroom dance--(she was trained in ballet)-- let alone Samba style ballroom. Yet she still danced and performed like a professional and with a lot of charisma and passion....she really shined when she did that Samba piece.
@katewalshislife Hi kate, i do like Jeanine but i disagree. to me Kayla was perfection, she took every style and not only killed it, but she also made it look like it was nothing. I will however say her own choreography is boring an very blend. but as a dancer, give a good a choreographer and she'll take the dance to another level. Besides, none of the best dancers in any season of SYTYCD has ever won. not Blake, Allison, Travis, Danny, Will, Chelsie Hightower, Kayla, Brandon, Ade, Jacob...
@songwriter83 Chelsie Hightower DOES NOT belong in that group. She was nowhere near being the best dancer of that season. I don't get why some ppl were so obsessed with her. She was not that great.
Kayla is something else. This solo is unbelieveable. I got chills. She just gets me with her dancing. What a sweetie she is. Luv what she did with feet at 1:17
Kayla may not be the Favorite dancer for America but I think she deserves to be regarded as the best dancer... Just like Mia said "She's a perfection"... Go KAyla!!!
she's soo amazing! LOVE HER can't believe evan made it that one step closer instead of her, she should have won but i definitely LOVE jeanine so much too, and brandon is incredible as well. this season was fantastic (: how old was she here?
I completely disagree, she has a lot to offer... I think she puts a lot of emotion into her dances and sometimes it can be more powerful than the dance. You have to be a great actor to tell a story. You may be a great dancer but if you don't put emotion into it what good is it?
she certainly does NOT DESERVE to go home. she has some of THE best lines, emotion, strength, and technical ability i have ever seen in a dancer. she certainly deserved to be a part of the final 4. she's been in the bottom because some people just don't understand what an amazing dancer she is or they're just jealous.
Wow then obviously you don't know what dance is. She has beautiful lines and she acts the role as her given character. She gives alot of passion and emotion in her dancing. If she made it in the bottom so many times and yet she still made the top 4, that just proves shes amazing. And if she "bugs" you so bad, why'd you search Kayla up on youtube?
she definetely did not deserve to go home a long time ago. she had so much to offer and she was a huge inspiration to me whenever i saw her dance. it's just that she shined so much, everyone forgot and took for granted that shine. i respect her so much for doing what she did.
HOLY COW....if someone tells me she is like 13 or 14 hear I;m gunna throw up. Her body was built to dance and her musicality and artistry is waaay beyond her years
Great costume, music and just phenomenal dancer. Clearly a natural talent combine with a lot of good training. great feet, legs, poise and musicality. Big things in store for this girl.
Yeah i will agree with the person who said that they dancer's talent could have been showcased a bit more. I do like this piece and all of the modern aspects to it. Also i love the music
Dancer, amazing. Costume, very appropriate. Choreography, I feel more of the strengths of the dancer could have been showcased. She has such amazing grace and flow and light sounds and movements. I'd love to see another solo from her.
beautiful...
sofochobiscocho 1 month ago
I could watch her dancing even without the music playing
Sucrahey 1 year ago 4
woooww!! her feet and legs go on forever! shes absolutely amazing!!
jazzthriller 1 year ago
But one thing, at 00:44, she doesn't fully pointe her foot, her toes look curled in....
4lifeKid 2 years ago
how tall is kayla??
dancedevil94 2 years ago
she was really sknny.
MISCHAL79 2 years ago
this dance gives me goosebumps..
anyone know what place she got for this one??
kmm144 2 years ago
Kayla is an amazing dancer with incredible legs. perfect body too, i think.
was she 13 - 14 in this clip? wow
potassydefermium 2 years ago 3
If she was 13-14 in this clip, this is truly amazing. My daughter is 14 and has been dancing since very young. She is nowhere near this level of skill.
MISCHAL79 2 years ago
What unbelievable flexibility at 1:55. By the way, if this video was posted on December 15th, 2005 it was performed sometime before being filmed. This makes her 14 or even 13 depending on the performance date. What a precocious dancer. I loved each and every SYTYCD routine and could care less what others have to say about her. She is a unique talent.
rch13701 2 years ago 5
1:16 looks soo awesome !
shessss amazinggg ! <333
Tomanana 2 years ago
a what? Janine nie dorasta do piet Kayla'i = Janine will never B as good as Kayla is now . !
Jeanine is so on point? ok. look how Kayla is on point in every routine, smashed eveyone of them! . !
ann2s 2 years ago 5
theres this amazing fluidity about her movement i love ittt<3
XxDancyShmancyxX 2 years ago 4
i actually prefer kayla over jeanine
kayla has better technique IMO
but i don't know, jeanine has that extra something
julianneOhohOh 2 years ago 6
what does IMO mean? i'm sorry i know this is completely random but i've wanted to know for soo long!
hindusmercury 2 years ago
IMO means 'in my opinion'
julianneOhohOh 2 years ago
ohhhhh
thank-you!
hindusmercury 2 years ago 3
Absolutely Kayla should have won, the BEST natural dancer since I started watching in Season 2!!!
takehiro12 2 years ago 4
well shes said to B the best of top 4 evr
ann2s 2 years ago 3
exactly Kayla is equally talented a dancer, if not, even better than Jeanine. But Jeanine is so on point in her routines also...they're both incredible, it was just a matter of who America and the judges liked better in the end.
4lifeKid 2 years ago 4
KAYLA SHOULD HAVE WON!
theres something about the way she dances that makes you want to keep watching forever & i'm sorry ii didn't feel that way about jeanine at all
HeYiTzLiLi52308 2 years ago 11
I couldn't agree with u more. Kayla is special.
oxashleyyyy 2 years ago 6
I know right! Everyone keeps defending Jeanine and saying Kayla "lacked feeling"....I'm like, "you idiots!" Kayla was nicknamed 'White Lightening" and a "star" by the judges because of how much she shines...she just has this charisma and she picked up different styles and always nailed them like a pro even when she had no experience in them b4.....like the Latin ballroom piece when Max was her partner, the younger male judge said "babe, it looked like you were born in a ballroom"
4lifeKid 2 years ago 4
becuase she did lack feeling. it was obvious.
DanceMusicLoveLife 2 years ago
dancemusiclovelife, look around you! you're outnumbered by stubborn supporters of Kayla....and whatever you saw, is whatever because Kayla had passion and charisma when she danced it was actually so obvious to the judges they nicknamed her the "white lightening" star so eat your hearts out Jeanine fans. Like I think Jeanine is just as talented, if not, more but you can't take away Kayla's credit.
4lifeKid 2 years ago
eat our hearts out? Jeanine is just as a star kayla is. Jeanine is fabulous and amazing. She's unique and Kayla may have great technique but she lacks at actual dancing. I bet if she went to example a club..it sucks. Her solos she tries to put too much. Like she barely de a pas de chat once.
lovecomesonce 2 years ago
u r retarded
oxashleyyyy 2 years ago
@4lifeKid Debbie Allen called her White Lightening cuz she is all white ( hair , skin and so on) if she was better than Jeanine ( which I don't think she was) she would be America's Favorite Dancer Season 5 or at least get further than top 4
katewalshislife 2 years ago
katewalshislife,
k hun.....it's my opinion tho still. Search "Kayla and Max Samba" and you'll see why Kalya inspired me as a dancer....before that week's challenge, she had no experience whatsoever in ballroom dance--(she was trained in ballet)-- let alone Samba style ballroom. Yet she still danced and performed like a professional and with a lot of charisma and passion....she really shined when she did that Samba piece.
4lifeKid 2 years ago
OK that is legit but that occurred with everyone on the show. that is their job as contestants. to make the dance look good no matter what
katewalshislife 2 years ago
@katewalshislife Hi kate, i do like Jeanine but i disagree. to me Kayla was perfection, she took every style and not only killed it, but she also made it look like it was nothing. I will however say her own choreography is boring an very blend. but as a dancer, give a good a choreographer and she'll take the dance to another level. Besides, none of the best dancers in any season of SYTYCD has ever won. not Blake, Allison, Travis, Danny, Will, Chelsie Hightower, Kayla, Brandon, Ade, Jacob...
songwriter83 1 year ago
@songwriter83 Chelsie Hightower DOES NOT belong in that group. She was nowhere near being the best dancer of that season. I don't get why some ppl were so obsessed with her. She was not that great.
xoxoxo20 1 year ago
she was 14 or 15 definetely! i remember this when she performed on the recital! :)
10239416 2 years ago 6
Kayla is something else. This solo is unbelieveable. I got chills. She just gets me with her dancing. What a sweetie she is. Luv what she did with feet at 1:17
oxashleyyyy 2 years ago 4
Why does her movements make me think of the little girl/monster from the movie The Ring?!!
Ceemoore67 2 years ago
Kayla may not be the Favorite dancer for America but I think she deserves to be regarded as the best dancer... Just like Mia said "She's a perfection"... Go KAyla!!!
dxcChx 2 years ago 27
I completely agree! :)
subster22 2 years ago 2
how old was she ?
allstar434 2 years ago 4
18 or 19
ebonysquareskirt07 2 years ago 3
no she was 18 when she audtitioned for sytycd so it would make her around 14 or 15 in 2005
1301595 2 years ago 3
probably 15..because she is 18 now or at least was while on sytycd..and this video was put up in 2005 :)
xomissdanceox 2 years ago 2
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no she was 18 when she audtitioned for sytycd so it would make her around 14 or 15 in 2005
1301595 2 years ago
lovely lines. good technique. horrible choreography. another example of a "competition routine"
o0treefingers0o 2 years ago
I live in her hometown Aurora,Colorado
ryan51600 2 years ago
she's soo amazing! LOVE HER can't believe evan made it that one step closer instead of her, she should have won but i definitely LOVE jeanine so much too, and brandon is incredible as well. this season was fantastic (: how old was she here?
duhitsjuliet 2 years ago 3
I completely disagree, she has a lot to offer... I think she puts a lot of emotion into her dances and sometimes it can be more powerful than the dance. You have to be a great actor to tell a story. You may be a great dancer but if you don't put emotion into it what good is it?
lilybugg24 2 years ago 7
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uggh she bugs me so bad. She has been in the bottom practically every single week. she deserved to go home a long time ago.
SydneyCita 2 years ago
she certainly does NOT DESERVE to go home. she has some of THE best lines, emotion, strength, and technical ability i have ever seen in a dancer. she certainly deserved to be a part of the final 4. she's been in the bottom because some people just don't understand what an amazing dancer she is or they're just jealous.
anThononyian 2 years ago 7
Wow then obviously you don't know what dance is. She has beautiful lines and she acts the role as her given character. She gives alot of passion and emotion in her dancing. If she made it in the bottom so many times and yet she still made the top 4, that just proves shes amazing. And if she "bugs" you so bad, why'd you search Kayla up on youtube?
fireangel240 2 years ago 6
she definetely did not deserve to go home a long time ago. she had so much to offer and she was a huge inspiration to me whenever i saw her dance. it's just that she shined so much, everyone forgot and took for granted that shine. i respect her so much for doing what she did.
pinkdaisies05 2 years ago 4
1:16
wow, that was good
StarHeartDuo 2 years ago
You know its really Kayla by her perfect flawless lines. she is soooo incredible!
beccamae3 2 years ago
omgggg she was just as incredible then as she is now. like, really? and so skinny!!!!! she has become such a beautiful WOMAN now!
dancertab 2 years ago
JEEZE... 2:03 how did she do that?!?!
swimlat22 2 years ago
She looks so young!! She is a beautiful dancer.
michkay1 2 years ago
jesus, her LEGS!
tomakeyoumylamb 2 years ago
she is SO FREAKING UNREAL!!! shes too underrated on sytycd
tinydancer61 2 years ago 20
Ha she totally did hit a growth spurt! thats what me and my friends were just talkin about
She did liberts photos and so did alot of my friends and i didnt even recognize it was her on the show until the told me cause she look sooo diferent
dartsara 2 years ago
wow, has she hit a growth spurt in the last 4 years or what??
grits13fl 2 years ago
she's on so you think you can dance right now and she's sooo good..
jansdabest 2 years ago
she's so amazing!!
fiveloavestwofishes 2 years ago 2
HOLY COW....if someone tells me she is like 13 or 14 hear I;m gunna throw up. Her body was built to dance and her musicality and artistry is waaay beyond her years
nammyohorengekyo 2 years ago
no, im not a dancer or anything. it's just that i've never seen someone pirouette one way and then the other way on the same feet, like a rewind.
songwriter83 2 years ago
2.02 - 2.07 wow
songwriter83 2 years ago
So you're impressed when someone loses their center and has to hop on the pirouette?
cagigem 2 years ago
rude.
lizadelle16 2 years ago
wot did she do?
1:15-1:17
amazing!
isolatedflee 2 years ago
i know
it almost looks unnatural
absolutely amazing!
eoghandillon 2 years ago
What is she --- 15, 16 years old in this video? Amazing musicality and interpretive abilities! Mature beyond her years.
rch13701 2 years ago
i LOVE her. i want her to win sytycd so badly. she is amazing. her lines go FOREVER!
tottallycarlaax 2 years ago 7
Unbelievable.
ptle2000 2 years ago
Wow
ptle2000 2 years ago
wooah 1.58
loovely :) wish i could do that!
natz351 2 years ago
Really great job! I love that song!!!
AdautoMedeiros 3 years ago
i love this choreography!!!!
and the dancer as well. its amazing!
Dosenbiermachtschlau 4 years ago
The song is:
JOB
by Cindy Morgan and Loren Balman
from the "Streams" project
Mymadhatter 4 years ago
could you please tell me what this song is called.<3
kristi4984 5 years ago
Great costume, music and just phenomenal dancer. Clearly a natural talent combine with a lot of good training. great feet, legs, poise and musicality. Big things in store for this girl.
Mymadhatter 5 years ago 5
This song is so beautiful! What is it?!
googlemesilly 5 years ago
Yeah i will agree with the person who said that they dancer's talent could have been showcased a bit more. I do like this piece and all of the modern aspects to it. Also i love the music
googlemesilly 5 years ago
what is this song its very pretty
caprizee44 5 years ago
Dancer, amazing. Costume, very appropriate. Choreography, I feel more of the strengths of the dancer could have been showcased. She has such amazing grace and flow and light sounds and movements. I'd love to see another solo from her.
loveofdance 5 years ago
pretty feet. pretty legs...a very cute ballerina i must say!...this song is pretty, the choreo is okay but the dancers real gooood! :)
sobeautiful20 5 years ago
that was amazing
ilikemusicxx 6 years ago
As Kate Bush might say, Wow. Amazing.
MacUser 6 years ago