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Four Oscar Dance Routines as Imagined By Adam Shankman

Written by Seth Abramovitch | 02 Feb 2010, 7:30 AM | Comment

If you’re a Movieline reader, you’ve probably been following along with us the Twitter updates of Oscars producer Adam Shankman, the vivacious Hairspray director and So You Think You Can Dance panelist who once polled his followers, “So weird question; would u watch the oscars with more exitement [sic] if I cast some sytycd dancers if there are musical #s?” The answer to that question, of course, is a big, disco-ball-shaped YES. Assuming, then, that these tireless reality TV gypsies will be there Oscars night to translate the ten Best Picture nominees into something Generation Gaga can understand, we’ve now dipped into the SYTYCD vaults for a preview of what to expect.

District 9

In this contemporary pas de deux, government worker Wikus Van De Merwe learns he’s become the hunted; with nowhere else to run, he takes refuge in his prawn enemy Christopher Johnson. The two develop an unlikely friendship, and pledge to help each other flee the planet.

Avatar

Taking James Cameron’s game-changing technical marvel as a jumping off point, Shankman outfits his vaguely ethnic looking “others” in flowy tribal garb inspired by the cool blues, greens and purples of the Avatar palette. The number ends in the spectacular destruction of the neon Hometree erected upstage.

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