So You Think You Can Dance eliminated two finalists and determined the eleventh season's Top 8 contestants during Wednesday night's live performance show on Fox.
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Bridget and Emilio got sent home after they found themselves in the week's bottom-four dancers -- the bottom two guys and the bottom two girls -- based on home viewer votes. Because Bridget and Emilio were the one male and female polled the lowest, Jacque LeWarne, an 18-year-old Ballet dancer from Clive, IA, and Zack Everhart Jr., a 20-year-old Tap dancer from Kennesaw, GA, survived the cut.
Wednesday night's show featured the Top 10 finalists each performing with a So You Think You Can Dance all-star for regular judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy as well as guest judge Tara Lipinksi, an Olympic figure skater.
Bridget and all-star Brandon Bryant, Season 5's first runner-up, danced a Bollywood disco routine. Emilio and all-star Jasmine Harper, Season 10's first runner-up, performed a hip-hop number.
Jacque and all-star Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Season 8's male winner, took the stage with the show's first-ever contemporary ballet routine. Zack and all-star Amy Yakima, Season 10's female winner, impressed with an emotional contemporary number.
Next week, So You Think You Can Dance's seventh eleventh-season performance show will feature the eight remaining finalists dancing again for home viewer votes to the music of Michael Jackson with a different all-star partner.
Below is the list of So You Think You Can Dance all-star and Top 8 finalist pairings:
- Tanisha Belnap and all-star Nick Lazzarini (Sole winner of Season 1)
- Valerie Rockey and all-star Ryan DiLello (Top 6 finalist on Season 6)
- Rudy Abreu and all-star Allison Holker (Top 8 finalist on Season 2)
- Jacque LeWarne and all-star Stephen "tWitch" Boss (Runner-up on Season 4)
- Ricky Ubeda and all-star Jamie Goodwin (Top 10 finalist on Season 3)
- Casey Askew and all-star Comfort Fedoke (Top 8 finalist on Season 4)
- Jessica Richens and all-star Will Wingfield (Top 8 finalist on Season 4)
- Zack Everhart Jr. and all-star Mackenzie Dustman (Top 10 finalist on Season 10)
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