TV Review: All the Right Moves

Travis Wall certainly has made a name for himself as a dancer and choreographer since he was on season 2 of So You Think You Can Dance. So much that Oxygen has given him his own reality TV show.

All the Right Moves follows Travis and three of his friends as they try to start their own dance company, Shaping Sound. I like good dancing. I'm not a great dancer myself, although I like to dance. But I can appreciate talented dancers and good choreography, and Travis and his friends are great dancers and are good choreographers.

The first episode had plenty of drama, which all reality TV shows need. Travis has two friends who he asks to audition for the company, and because of their relationships with Travis and his other friends who are starting the dance company with him, they feel like they shouldn't have to audition, that they should automatically get a spot with the company. Both friends end up auditioning and getting spots in the company.

It's not just a matter of having the desire to start a company, they actually need money. So, they have to seek out potential investors and convince them to invest in their company. Travis's agent thinks that the company should have Travis's name attached to the company because he has a name people will recognize. But Travis's friends aren't happy about that because it isn't only Travis's dance company. This issue isn't resolved in the first episode, so it will continue to cause drama.

Shaping Sound performed a routine for the potential investors, and it was wonderful. Routines like this will be the reason I will continue to watch All the Right Moves. The company has great talent, and of course the choreography was outstanding.

And, here is the routine Shaping Sound performed for investors:



I hope the show will have the performance of more than one routine on each show, and I also wish that the camera would stay still longer than it does. I don't know who decided that when you film a dance routine the camera has to be all over the place. The choreographers choreograph routines like a photographer takes a picture. It's a composition, and I believe you should be able to see the routine as a live audience would see it, with the camera moving to close ups of dancers very seldom.