{"id":7145,"date":"2019-07-25T06:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:06:36","slug":"ballroom-dancing-has-a-strong-presence-in-so-you-think-you-can-dance-top-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/blog\/ballroom-dances\/ballroom-dancing-has-a-strong-presence-in-so-you-think-you-can-dance-top-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballroom dancing has a strong presence in So You Think You Can Dance top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2019\/03\/team-placeholder-studio.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5724 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2019\/03\/team-placeholder-studio.jpg\" alt=\"Profile Image\" width=\"370\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2019\/03\/team-placeholder-studio.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2019\/03\/team-placeholder-studio-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a>At Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Eagan, we love <em>So You Think You Can Dance.<\/em> This past Monday night, they unveiled their top 10 boys and top 10 girls. In previous seasons, the top 20 has been heavily filled with contemporary dancers. But, this year, half of the top 10 girls and two of the top 10 boys are ballroom dancers. This makes me super excited for this season. I\u2019m hopeful that more ballroom dancers will mean more ballroom routines. And you can never have too much ballroom dance on tv. (But I\u2019m a little biased.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is a hometown girl in the top 20. Madison Jordan, a contemporary dancer from Lake Elmo, wowed the judges. Tune in Monday nights to see how far Madison can go.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list for the top 10 girls and top 10 boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anna Linstruth \u2013 hip hop<br \/>\nAshley Sanchez \u2013 ballroom<br \/>\nMadison Jordan \u2013 contemporary from Lake Elmo<br \/>\nMariah Russell \u2013 contemporary<br \/>\nMelany Mercedes \u2013 salsa<br \/>\nNazz Sldryan \u2013 ballroom<br \/>\nSofia Ghavami \u2013 ballroom<br \/>\nSophie Pittman \u2013 contemporary<br \/>\nStephanie Sosa \u2013 ballroom<br \/>\nSumi Oshima \u2013 hip hop<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Guys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aleksandr Ostanin \u2013 tap<br \/>\nBailey Munoz \u2013 hip hop<br \/>\nBenjamin Castro \u2013 contemporary<br \/>\nBrandon Talbott \u2013 contemporary ballet<br \/>\nBryan &#8220;Clocks&#8221; Volozanin \u2013 hip hop<br \/>\nEddie Hoyt \u2013 tap<br \/>\nEzra Sosa \u2013 ballroom<br \/>\nGino Cosculluela \u2013 contemporary<br \/>\nNathan Cherry \u2013 hip hop<br \/>\nVlad Kvartin \u2013 ballroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Eagan, we love So You Think You Can Dance. This past Monday night, they unveiled their top 10 boys and top 10 girls. In previous seasons, the top 20 has been heavily filled with contemporary dancers. But, this year, half of the top 10 girls and two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-dance-competitions","category-dance-info-news-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/south-metro-eagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}