'So You Think You Can Dance' cuts two dancers, determines Top 8 finalists and next round of all-star pairings

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.


Bridget Whitman, a 20-year-old Contemporary dancer from Tempe, AZ, and Emilio Dosal, a 23-year-old Popping dancer from Houston, TX, were eliminated based on America's vote cast following last week's performance show which had featured the Top 14 finalists taking the stage and concluded with 10 dancers remaining.

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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