So You Think You Can Dance, Top 20

Happy July 4th everyone! There is no new episode of SYTYCD this week, but it should be back next week. So this week, I thought I would post some information about the Top 20 to help us get to know them better. TV Guide published all of these fun tidbits about each of the dancers:

Top 10 Girls
	Alexa Anderson Age: 19 Style: Contemporary She was enrolled in dancing by her mother because she had a brain hemorrhage as a baby, which left her with weakness on her right side, and they thought that dance would help her.
	Amber Jackson Age: 21 Style: Contemporary She is also a singer, and wants to be on Broadway someday.
	Amelia Lowe Age: 18 Style: Contemporary Obviously from her choice of hair style, you can tell she is obsessed with the '20s era.
	Audrey Case Age: 18 Style: Jazz She first started dancing to a Barney song, the “Kookaburra” song.
	Eliana Girard Age: 21 Style: Contemporary Ballet She was an aerialist with the Viva Elvis show in Vegas.
	Janaya French Age: 20 Style: Lyrical Contemporary She loves to use movie quotes, and still can't believe the Grey's Anatomy season finale.
	Janelle Issis Age: 24 Style: Belly Dancing She wants everyone to know that belly dancing isn't about being sexy. She also loves artichokes.
	Lindsay Arnold Age: 18 Style: Latin Ballroom She loves water sports, juicy burgers and chocolate.
	Tiffany Maher Age: 19 Style: Jazz Her first performance was before she had taken a class. She used to watch her sister from her stroller. Someone got sick, and they asked her if she could do the routine, and she did! She also has a very weird obsession with frozen yogurt, and has a certain way she likes to eat it.
	Witney Carson Age: 18 Style: Latin Ballroom She plays the guitar and the drums. The style of music she is into is hard rock, like Korn and Avenged Sevenfold.
Top 10 Guys
	Brandon Mitchell Age: 27 Style: Stepping He would like to play a 20s or 30s gangster.
	Cheon Wespi-Tschopp Age: 23 Style: Ballet He's from Switzerland, and he started dancing late, at age 13. He is inspired by Billy Elliot. At a young age, he discovered that he learns by colors. He sees things like numbers in patterns of colors. It is the same thing for dance moves.
	Cole Horibe Age: 26 Style: Martial Arts Fusion At first he tried to avoid using martial arts moves in his dancing, but they just came out, and he learned to embrace the uniqueness.
	Cyrus (“Glitch”) Spencer Age: 22 Style: Animation Popping and Robotics He is a vegetarian, and loves anything spicy. He has never had a major injury from dancing, mainly just sprains. He said, “I'm pretty safe. I mean, how messed up can a robot get? He might power down every once and awhile.”
	Daniel Baker Age: 26 Style: Ballet He's from Australia. He stayed in dance when he was young because you got candy at the end. He admits that he was a fat kid.
	Dareian (“Dare”) Kujawa Age: 20 Style: Contemporary He is also a rapper. During Vegas week, a rib popped out of place. He popped it back in himself so he could continue dancing.
	George Lawrence II Age: 19 Style: Contemporary He has 4 tatoos and says that he can't sing at all.
	Matthew Kazmierczak Age: 21 Style: Contemporary He really wants a pet octopus, that he would name Mortimer. He is also obsessed with the Scream movies.
	Nick Bloxsom-Carter Age: 20 Style: Ballroom His idol is Fred Astaire. His Mom forced him to dance and he hated it. His first teacher was a mean old lady with a wooden leg.
	Will Thomas Age: 19 Style: Contemporary He started out playing baseball, but he just danced and picked daisies in the outfield. His Mom was a cheerleader, and he used to learn all of the routines, so she entered him in hip-hop classes. He also likes magic tricks.

All photos and information from: tvguide.com