So You Think You Can Dance revealed the identities of its Top 20 eleventh-season finalists during Wednesday night's broadcast of the Fox reality dancing competition.
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All 157 dancers got to perform a solo for regular So You Think You Can Dance judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, as well as choreographer and guest judge Adam Shankman, show all-star TWitch, Olympic figure-skating gold medalist Tara Lipinski, and prima ballerina Irina Dvorovenko.
A total of 36 hopefuls were cut after solos, leaving 121 contestants to advance to the hip-hop choreography challenge. Each choreography round allowed the dancers only one hour to learn a routine and then perform it with a partner for the judges. After the hip-hop round and then ballroom choreography, 65 dancers remained.
Those 65 hopefuls then performed in "the dreaded contemporary round." After that challenge, 29 boys and 21 girls remained -- so 50 people total.
The 50 dancers then participated in the group round. Groups of five randomly selected a song and had to choreograph their own routine. Only 44 performers remained after the group round and they got to dance an additional solo for the judges.
The Top 20 -- 10 males and 10 females -- were then selected by the So You Think You Can Dance judges and given either good or bad news one at a time. All the dancers will perform next week for the first time.
So You Think You Can Dance's Top 20 eleventh-season finalists are:
- Bridget Whitman, a 20-year-old Contemporary dancer from Tempe, AZ
- Tanisha Belnap, a 20-year-old Ballroom dancer from Payson, UT
- Emily James, a 21-year-old Contemporary dancer from North Kingstown, RI
- Brooklyn Fullmer, an 18-year-old Latin Ballroom dancer from Provo, UT
- Carly Blaney, a 20-year-old Contemporary dancer from Wyckoff, NJ
- Jourdan Epstein, a 24-year-old Ballet dancer from Plymouth, MN
- Jessica Richens, an 18-year-old Jazz dancer from Yorba Linda, CA
- Valerie Rockey, a 20-year-old Tap dancer from Indianapolis, IN
- Jacque LeWarne, an 18-year-old Ballet dancer from Clive, IA
- Malene Ostergaard, a 25-year-old Ballroom dancer from Aarhus, Denmark
- Rudy Abreu, a 19-year-old Contemporary dancer from Miami, FL
- Serge Onik, a 26-year-old Latin Ballroom dancer from Upper Saddle River, NJ
- Zack Everhart Jr., a 20-year-old Tap dancer from Kennesaw, GA
- Nick Garcia, an 18-year-old Latin Ballroom dancer from Miami, FL
- Teddy Coffey, a 19-year-old Hip Hop dancer from Rochester, NY
- Casey Askew, a 19-year-old Contemporary dancer from Seattle, WA
- Ricky Ubeda, an 18-year-old Contemporary dancer from Miami, FL
- Stanley Glover, a 19-year-old Contemporary dancer from Chicago, IL
- Emilio Dosal, a 23-year-old Popping dancer from Houston, TX
- Marquet Hill, an 18-year-old Latin Ballroom dancer from South Jordan, UT
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