Keira 2025 & Gracyn 2024
Obviously Keira Redpath's solo 'All That Jazz' has been not only the talk of the town this week but also, I think most of us can agree, the complete and utter stand out at TDA Vegas this year for 2025. It has safely placed her in her own league completely incomparable to her competition (who I am not focusing on whatsoever here at all: I am pointing out her remarkable performance which is leagues above any dance competition, not putting down anyone else's).
Keira Redpath's solo seems to be the equivalent (sentimentally and stand out wise) of Gracyn French's solo last year 'Chemtrails Over the Country Club' at TDA Orlando 2024. Giving that performance where you're just left with no words but "oh my gosh".
I think of watching Gracyn last year with that same pure joy and even now, a year later, I still can't watch Chemtrails without getting tears in my eyes because of how powerful that performance was. And then I think of them announcing her as second runner-up and gasping out loud at that heart breaking and pretty shocking turn of events.
I just so so so hope that the same "unexplainable unexpected" outcome doesn't happen to Keira the way it did for Gracyn last year. That was just gut wrenching to watch and (in my opinion at least) still impossible to explain.