So You Think You Can Dance (season 4) finalists

This is a list of finalists for season four of the United States version of So You Think You Can Dance.

Joshua Allen

Joshua Allen was the overall winner of the Season 4 competition.

Rayven Armijo

Rayven Armijo is a ballet dancer who was eliminated in week one along with Jamie Bayard.

Jamie Bayard

Jamie Ray Bayard is a Latin ballroom and Swing dancer. He was partnered with Rayven Armijo who was also eliminated in the first week.

He was a childhood dance partner of season 3's Lacey Schwimmer.

Stephen "Twitch" Boss

Stephen "Twitch" Boss is a freestyle dancer from Montgomery, Alabama. He attended Chapman University.

"Twitch" first appeared on television when he placed second on Star Search behind America's Best Dance Crew group Super Crew's "Do Knock". He was a contestant on The Wade Robson Project, where he came in third place. Boss also choreographed dances for Korean artists, such as Se7en. While his breakout performances occurred on So You Think You Can Dance, he previously appeared as a dancer in Hairspray. He can be seen in the dance number at the platter party and in "You Can't Stop the Beat."

Boss auditioned for the third season, and made it through 'Vegas Week' but was beaten out by Hokuto "Hok" Konishi when it came to getting a placing in the Top 20. Boss returned in season 4 made it all the way to the finale, placing 2nd overall. Boss has been teaching at South County Classical Ballet for two years now with fellow finalist Katee Shean.

Marquis Cunningham

Marquis Antoine Cunningham (born July 19, 1989) was paired with Susie Garcia and was eliminated in the second week.

Matt Dorame

Matthew Patrick Dorame (born April 11, 1986) is a contemporary dancer from Glendale, Arizona. He was eliminated by the judges during Top 14 week along with his partner, Kourtni Lind.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, he has been dancing since he was seven years old. Dorame trained at the dance studio The Dance Connection, for seven years. Dorame attended Arizona School for the Arts, where he studied ballet for four years, and summer ballet intensives at the American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, and The Rock School. He has also been training for the past two years at the prestigious Odyssey Dance Theater along with fellow finalist Thayne Jasperson in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also was featured in the film The American Mall as a dancer/employee.

Comfort Fedoke

Comfort Ogheneruro Fedoke was born May 20, 1988 in Fort Worth, Texas and was raised in Lagos, Nigeria until she returned to the United States at age 8. She lived in Plymouth, MN for three years before settling in Carrolton, TX. As a child, she competed in beauty pageants.

Fedoke, a former track and field athlete, began dancing after an injury forced her out of the competitive sports scene. She learned hip hop dancing from watching videos and then began to session with her brothers to further hone her craft. Her father enrolled her in Booker T. Washington School of the Performing Arts midway into her sophomore year, where she received training in tap, ballet, and jazz. She only had two and a half years of training before the coming on the show; she auditioned with two of her brothers, as well as fellow contestant and eventual winner Joshua Allen.

Fedoke was eliminated in the fifth week, but brought back the following week when Jessica King was injujured due to a rib problem, and could not continue. In the seventh week she was eliminated, making her the only competitor to be eliminated twice from the competition in any season. She also has the most appearances and most consecutive appearances in the bottom 3 or 4 in the show's history, beating Lauren Gottlieb with a total of 6 times. She was later seen in T-Pain's video "Freeze" and in Ludacris's "What Them Girls Like".

She was featured in AVA's (Lee Jun Hyun) music video, "Crazy", which was released in Korea in May 2009 and was choreographed by Brian Friedman.

Susie Garcia

Susana "Susie" Garcia (born 1983) is a high school teacher and salsa dancer from Miami, Florida. She auditioned in Milwaukee.

Garcia was eliminated on June 20, 2008.

Courtney Galiano

Courtney Ann Galiano (born June 12, 1988) is a contemporary dancer from Commack, New York. A Knicks City Dancer, she started dancing as Little Bo Peep at the age of 3. She has trained in lyrical dance, tap, jazz, ballet and hip hop. Galiano attended Manhattan College before transferring to St. Joseph's College and now studies childhood education. She appeared in the music video for Kat Deluna's single Whine Up. She is also appearing in a Clearasil/America's Best Dance Crew Sweepstakes commercial. Courtney also appeared on a dance video for the Hannah Montana movie called "Hoedown Throwdown" with Katee Shean.

Chris Jarosz

Christopher Daniel Jarosz was born July 3, 1986 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He danced with Comfort Fedoke and was eliminated on June 25, 2008. Jarosz currently lives in Dallas, Texas and is a student at Southern Methodist University.

Thayne Jasperson

Thayne Riley Jasperson was born July 7, 1980) in Provo, Utah. He appeared in High School MusicAL as a brainiac dancer, and in High School Musical 2 as a featured dancer in "What Time Is It?". He was paired with Chelsea Traille until she was eliminated from the competition in week 3. From then on, he was paired with Comfort Fedoke until both their eliminations during top 12 week.

Mark Kanemura

Mark Kenneth Ioane Kanemura (born September 17, 1983) is a contemporary dancer from Honolulu, Hawaii. He was paired with Chelsie Hightower until top 10 week. Kanemura started dancing at the age of 13, after watching Phantom Of the Opera. His sister taught him his first dance moves: the running man and the cabbage patch. He was eliminated on July 31, 2008 along with Hightower, his original partner. His final appearance as a contestant was as one of the Top 6 dancers of the show. He has since made an appearance in Lil Mama's music video "Truly in Love". He also appeared on the show Dancing with the Stars in the Macy's Stars of Dance performance on March 17, 2009.

Jessica King

Jessica Careen King is a dancer from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. An injury forced her to prematurely leave the competition.

King previously auditioned for So You Think You Can Dance in the third season, but did not make the top 20. She re-auditioned and ultimately made the top 20 for Season 4, where she was paired with contemporary dancer William Wingfield. On July 14, 2008, King suffered a major injury and was forced to bow out of the competition. Her spot was given to Comfort Fedoke, who had been eliminated the previous week.

King is a Visual Arts Major at Coastal Carolina University and has been taking formal dance lessons within various styles including tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop and contemporary since the age of three.

Kourtni Lind

Kourtni Josephine Lind (born November 9, 1989) is from Forest Lake, Minnesota. She started dancing at age 3, focusing on contemporary, jazz, ballet, and tap. She also trained in musical theatre, pointe, and hip-hop. She auditioned at Milwaukee. She was paired with Matt Dorame and was eliminated on July 3, 2008.

Gev Manoukian

Gevorg Manoukian (born September 15, 1986) is a 23-year-old, Armenian/Russian hip hop and break dancer. Originally from Kazakhstan, Manoukian is now living in Centerville, Utah. He performed in High School Musical 2.

Manoukian first auditioned for season 2 and made it to Vegas, but his lack of versatility kept him out of the top 20. He then auditioned for season 4 and successfully qualified as a finalist, paired with Courtney Galiano. He was eliminated in the top 10. Manoukian was also in the MTV musical American Mall.

Kherington Payne

Kherington Taylor Payne (born January 26, 1990) is a dancer from Placentia, California.

She was born in Whittier, California, and has been taking formal dance lessons since she was 2 years old. She graduated from El Dorado High School on June 10, 2008 and now lives in Placentia, California while pursuing her dancing career. Kherington is also the cousin of The Bolts brothers Addam, Heath, and Austin Farmer. Kherington has been cast as Alice in the remake of the movie "Fame" which will open in theaters in September of 2009.

Katee Shean

Katee Taira Shean (born May 14, 1988) is a contemporary dancer from San Jose, California. She has been taking formal dance lessons since she was 4 years old and trained at the Teen Dance Company and Atlas School of Dance. She has been teaching at South County Classical Ballet for just over a year now with fellow finalist, Stephen "Twitch" Boss.

Shean was born in San Jose, California and graduated from Pioneer High School in 2006. She currently attends Chapman University, where she is pursuing a double major in leadership and dance and is ACTIVE in many volunteer organizations. Sometime after the So You Think You Can Dance tour, Katee moved to Los Angeles along with Comfort Fedoke and Courtney Galiano.

She, along with Joshua Allen, were the only 2 contestants this season to make the final four without an appearance in the Bottom 3 couples, or Bottom 4 contestants.

Shean was the second contestant eliminated on the season finale; however, since she received more votes than Courtney Galiano on the season finale, she was awarded $50,000.

Shean also auditioned for Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance but was cut on the final day of Vegas week.

Chelsea Traille

Chelsea Traille (born March 8, 1985) was eliminated during the Top 16 week. She has been dancing since she was 3 years old and is trained in ballet, jazz, and tap. Traille was a special guest on the So You Think You Can Dance national tour. She also performed on the March 17, 2009 episode of Dancing with the Stars during the Macy's Stars of Dance performance.

William Wingfield

William B. Wingfield is a dancer from Nashville, Tennessee. He started dancing at the age of 9. He has trained with Debbie Allen. Due to the inclusion of Wingfield in the top 20, Debbie Allen was barred from judging as long as Wingfield remained in the competition. He was voted off of the competition on July 24, 2008, making it to the Top 8.