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on Tuesday, 03 July 2012
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Hampton Xcercist Williams

I'm sitting here, typing through my tears...

All the dance performances I've seen in my lifetime, and yet I've never seen—or FELT—anything like Hampton William's freestyle dance performance on season nine of "So You Think You Can Dance."

Williams calls the way of dancing he's created "Xcercist Style"and at the beginning of his audition, while pointing at the judges and the audience, he says:

"I can take your pain and and your fear, and I can interpret it, and you won't have it no more...and when I give you your soul back then you gonna look at life in a different aspect."

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  • Elisabetta Abate
    Elisabetta Abate says #
    I agree with Ute! A hug from Jerusalem
  • Ute Seemann
    Ute Seemann says #
    whow, that was really magic, thank you so much for sharing
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