There is only one reason I watch the show "So You Think You Can Dance."

Boys with their shirts off.

Kidding.

This past Wednesday, the best dance to ever be on the show was performed. Contemporary choreographer Mia Michaels crafted a piece so deeply moving, so strikingly imperative to the core of what it is to be human, that I can only conclude that everyone must watch it.

She did two choreographies that night -- one for dancers Katee and Joshua and one for Twitch and Kherington. Most of America, not because of complete stupidity but because the dance is on a more tangible level, probably preferred the second pair's offering.

Twitch and Kherington's routine was a well-timed, beautiful piece that involved a bed and roses serving as a memento of a bad break-up -- things with which many people can equate themselves.

But it paled in comparison to the breathtaking performance Katee and Joshua gave.

Barefoot and clad in basic black, they began with simple walks forward. Seemingly hitting an invisible barrier they divert backward and try again. From here until the end, the dance is about two people on a journey of failures and feelings, reaching and flailing for an unknown goal.

Watching it, they seem almost unchained by gravity.

Injected with true "Mia-ness," it is gritty and soft all at the same time. The movements are often awkward and uncomfortable looking. The haunting song "Hometown glory" -- by British newcomer Adele -- makes the dance whole. It would be nothing without it.

Katee and Josh do not look at each other through most of the piece, yet Josh is always there to catch her as she is about to fall. His football physique -- although ill-suited for a ballet company -- brings a strength to the dance that no one else on the show could achieve.

The first time I saw it I didn't want it to stop. I wanted to know what happened next. Now, after watching it 200 times, I still don't want it to stop.

I didn't think Mia could out-do her work from previous seasons. Her "Hide and Seek" group dance from Season Two and "Dancing" duet from Season Three both had me in raptures at her creative genius. But somehow she created something even better.

For someone so talented we do not know a lot about her, except that she lived in Vegas for a while while choreographing for the Celine Dion show. We also know she has won an Emmy for her efforts on SYTYCD. And yet, watching her wretchedly raw works week after week on the show, there must be hints here and there.

For instance, Josh said when he was done performing the piece that "It's just so much more than dancing with Mia." She takes her dancers on an emotional journey -- one that cannot be faked or misconstrued. She expects nothing less than 100 percent of the dancer's soul to be out on that stage.

It is truly extraordinary to watch.

Perhaps dancing doesn't change the world. Tomorrow the world will still be filled with guns and lying politicians and really ugly people. Dancing may not change real life but it can certainly touch one beyond belief.

There is only one reason I watch the show and it is not to see six-pack abs. I do not watch it to see the wrong people go home... again (Comfort and Thayne, the time has come and past due for you to be gone).

I watch the show to experience life through art. Michaels is that experience.