Your favorite dance shows up for Emmys

Getting a hormonal horde of teens to dance in sync deserves an award of some sort. For High School Musical 2, Kenny Ortega, Charles Kapow, and Bonnie Story -- for the SYTYCDance fans out there, you might remember Story's daughter Kelli Baker, who tried out this season (see the video below) but didn't make the Top 20 -- are all nominated for "What Time Is It?" "Fabulous," "Work This Out," "I Don't Dance," "You Are the Music In Me," and "For One."

For the rest of the routines up for Best Choreography -- including one that shook Zac Efron's booty to the ones that made us pick up the phone and vote -- follow us after the jump!

Watch the video for "What Time Is It?" (answer: summer time!) on the Disney site. While I'm really only into HSM to indulge in my barely legal love of Mr. Efron, I have to admit that the part with the basketball balancing [insert "ball-handling skills" joke] is pretty fancy.

In a completely different live action league, Dancing With The Stars' Julianne Hough was nominated for her "Para Los Rumberos" Mambo with partner Helio Castroneves. This one was good, but I prefer Hough's routines with unicycles and funnyman partners. Maybe next year they'll give her a sympathy nod for pulling Adam Carolla around the floor in the sixth season.

So You Think You Can Dance dominates the noms with a lineup of routines that still give me the chills even the second (okay, um third... or fifteenth) time around even in lesser, grainier, YouTube quality. I'll try not to be too partial to my favorite summer show or fawn over this batch of choreographers, but their routines should be this beautiful. The dancers they work with are immensely talented and have a passion and a drive unique to this competition.

It's so hard to pick my favorite of these three, but this Shane Sparks hip-hop routine was easily the most fun! Sparks played into last year's Transformers hype, and turned Lauren and ballroom-trained Pasha into Dance-atron 2000's along to Pitbull's "Fuego."

What can one begin to say about Sabra's serious skills and Neil's acrobatic pelvis? Choreographer (not '90s popstar and occasional actress) Mandy Moore created a jazz routine along to "Sweet Dreams" around a table for one surprisingly steamy sequence.

My vote, at least for most visually stunning and moving, goes to Wade Robson's piece that used "The Chairman's Waltz" from Memoirs of a Geisha. Robson's routine was more of a metamorphosis as we watched b-boy Hok turn into a prettily popping/locking hummingbird and Jaimie into a blooming flower.

One name noticeably missing from the list this year is So You Think You Can Dance's Mia Michaels. She's a force on the show whether she's molding the contestants for her beautiful routines or bestowing harsh criticism or quirky compliments alongside Nigel. Maybe we should add the contemporary choreographer to our list of Emmy snubs?

Who do you think deserves the Emmy?