The super popular dance competition So You Think You Can Dance is back for Season 15. On the season premiere (Monday, June 4), the judges – Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Vanessa Hudgens – will watch several auditions from highly talented dancers between the ages of 18 and 30. One of the most memorable is performed by Gaevin Barnacles.
Gaevin Barnacles breakdances to the 1991 hip-hop song “Scenario” by A Tribe Called Quest. The song includes a handful of samples including “Little Miss Lover” by Jimi Hendrix and “Soul Vibrations” by Kool & the Gang, among others. Leaders of the New School is featured including member Busta Rhymes who was just 19 when the song was released. In 2011, TIME Magazine added it to its list of All-TIME 100 Songs. So You Think You Can Dance airs Mondays at 8pm on FOX. (19-year-old Lex Ishimoto won Season 14 of SYTYCD.)
Look for Spike Lee’s cameo in the “Scenario” video…
