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Sabra Johnson found her backbone just in time.
The supremely talented yet relatively inexperienced 19-year-old was crowned the winner of the third season of So You Think You Can Dance Thursday night, becoming the hit Fox show's first female champ and surprising critics who felt that Lacey's flair or Danny's God-given talent (or, heck, even Neil's pretty hair) would prevail in the end.
Although it looked as if she might have rolled her ankle during her solo Wednesday, Johnson, who will pocket $250,000 in prize money, was standing tall tonight.
Johnson was born in the Netherlands and lived in Germany for nine years before landing in Roy, Utah. She now lives in New York, where she's been pursuing her dancing career.
The contemporary performer, who has studied jazz, ballet and gymnastics, and, to a lesser extent, theater, hip-hop and modern dance, didn't start formally training until she was 16. But what Johnson lacked in years en pointe she made up for in technical exactitude, flexibility and a whole lotta heart.
A record 16 million votes were cast this week, host Cat Deeley said, who also let it be known that what has become a summertime TV staple has been picked up for a fourth season.
Despite her shaky final solo to James Morrison's "Wonderful World," Johnson shined during her cha-cha with Danny Tidwell, 22, the professional ballet dancer turned freelance contemporary artist whose skills were as sharp and solid as his jaw but whose heart sometimes seemed to be shielded by a thin layer of ice. (Not last night, though. He finally seemed really happy to be there and the shots of his family sitting in the audience were happy-tear-inducing.)
Lacey Schwimmer, 18, was the first to be eliminated from the final four Thursday. Not only was she apparently outdanced last night, but she also had the odds stacked against her, what with being the sister of last year's SYTYCD winner, Benji Schwimmer, and being chosen to perform first Wednesday.
Also not going in her favor was her oddly slow Lindy hop with resident hottie Neil Haskell, 20, who just looked tired during the whole thing, despite still having just the right amount of product in his hair.
Schwimmer's fluid Viennese waltz with Tidwell (to Avril Lavigne's "Keep Holding On," no less) and Wade Robson-choreographed jazz routine with Johnson were crowd and judge-pleasers, though
(And speaking of all in the family, Tidwell's legal guardian, Denise Wall, who took custody of him when he was 12, is the mother of season-two runner-up Travis Wall.)
Next to go was Haskell, and then it was Tidwell who was booted.
Meanwhile, all four of the finalists—plus the rest of those who made up this season's top 10—have the first (presumably annual) 50-date So You Think You Can Dance tour, which kicks off Sept. 21 in Albany, New York, to start stretching for.
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