Season six of Fox’s hit show So You Think You Can Dance announced America’s favorite dancer last night!! Drum roll please….congratulations Russell Ferguson!!
Russell is the Boston krumper and won $250,000, a spot on the cover of Dance Spirit magazine, and a part in the 2010 Oscars telecast. Way to go!! Right after the show he tells People:
“It feels crazy, a dream come true [and] everything into one. It feels like everything has just fell into place … everything is so perfect right now. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
When executive producer Nigel Lythgoe was asked about the results and responded with,“I’m really happy with the result. I wouldn’t have minded Jakob [Karr, 19, the contemporary runner-up winning] or Russell. But for me and how I feel about dance — I want it spread everywhere — [Russell] does that for me more than Jakob would have done. Dancers will look at Jakob and go, ‘Wow, what a brilliant dancer,’ because he is. But America will look at the charismatic performer that Russell is and will say, ‘If he has done that, I can do that.’ And remember, he didn’t win by krumping. He only krumped once the whole season, as I remember. He won by doing other styles, and that opens up for street kids.”
Nigel hasn’t confirmed if SYTYCD will go out for another fall season of the show.
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