History in the making for "So You Think You Can Dance"

"So You Think You Can Dance" made history tonight in more way than one in the 2 hour finale of season of season 4 that aired tonight. Joshua, an untrained street dancer won the $250,000 cash prize and a role in the upcoming movie "Step Up 3-D," not exactly a role I'd be champing at the bit to star in, but hey it's a movie role.


This was the first year that an untrained dancer has one the title of "America's favorite dancer." Twitch, runner up was also an untrained dancer, two of my favorite male dancers that have ever been on the show.

As a dance teacher and dancer myself, I love watching trained dancers and I have always appreciated watching a well trained dancer compete. Will this season was extraordinary. I was in awe of him every time he got on stage no matter which partner or choreographer he worked with.

For the first time on "So You Think You Can Dance" I thought that the top two dancers, Joshua and Twitch were amazing. They blew me away with how graceful they were during the slow romantic numbers and how "buck" (in the words of Little C) they could be during the hip-hop numbers.

My favorite number of the season was the "door" piece with Twitch and Katee. I could watch it 80 times (which I kind of did already).