Fridge / So You Think You Can Dance

• Fridge Logic: The show has mostly stayed away from tap performances, especially in the competition portion. Only once has a dancer not specializing in tap had to compete in the genre. The show claims it's because tap is just too difficult to learn to a serviceable degree in a week. However, that comes across as hypocritical considering there's seemingly no other dance style – including cultural styles these dancers have likely never been exposed to – that the show doesn't think dancers can master in one week. Additionally, since by the latter half of the series the vast majority of "contemporary" and "jazz" dancers were grown-up competition kids who were fresh out of studio training, it's likely that a lot of those dancers had at least some training in tap, even if not to the professional degree of dancers like Bianca Revels. It's much more likely that tap was mainly avoided on the show because recording a live tap performance is hell. For the live audience, it looks and sounds great. For a televised audience, you're usually forced to have to choose between quality of the tap sounds and quality of the music sounds – and either way it's always highly conspicuous. It can sound a bit better when there's been post-production work, but for live episodes, not so much – that's why tap auditions tended to sound much better than tap solo performances when "dancing for their life." The suppression of tap on the show was much more likely about production than about dance integrity.