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From the ratings, it is apparent that just about everyone loves So You Think You Can Dance and the contestants on the show. We especially love the ones we voted to win the show. One question remains on our minds though, what are they doing now that they have won. Spanning back as far as four years, to the very first winner, Nick, here is the break down of what happened for these lucky dancers after SYTYCD and what they are doing today.

In the premier season of SYTYCD, Nick Lazzarini was the lucky winner and voted “America’s favorite dancer”. Not only was he an amazing dancer, but was also a great person and quite good looking :). The reward at the time was $100,000 and a year in a Penthouse in New York City. Because Nick was living in Cali, he decided to take the cash value of the Penthouse instead of moving. As the winner of SYTYCD, Nick was featured on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine twice, and was actually the first person ever to have been featured twice. He also is a founding member of Evolution Dance Company. As of most recent, Nick works with Jump Tours, a convention full of classes and performances of amazing dancers.

Benji Schwimmer was probably the most entertaining contestant to grace the screens on SYTYCD and was also the season 2 winner. Not only did Benji claim the title of “America’s favorite dancer”, but he also received a car, $100,000 cash and a highly coveted year contract to be in Celine Dion’s Vegas show. He took the car and cash but did turn down the gig with Celine, stating it was an honor but he didn’t want to live in Vegas but wanted to travel and pursue television. One thing is for sure, he is definitely traveling. Since the show he has been teaching and performing all over the world pushing his and Heidi Groskreutz’s  instructional DVD’s. Benji is also co-producing a movie about dancers called Love N’ Dancing. Love N’ Dancing was originally filmed to be a TV movie, however has since turned into a theatre released movie. Benji is also rumored to be casted in two other films in the near future. Additionally, Benji was in Christina Aguilera’s music video “Candyman”. Benji was also recently featured in a ten page spread in Dancer Magazine and also covered his photography, CLK’d by BNJI.

The third season winner, Sabra Johnson was the first female to win and also took home the hefty prize of $250,000. Not bad for only having danced for four years before the show. She is truly a talented dancer and deserved it. Since the show she has been on the cover of “Movmnt Magazine”, February 2008 edition. She has also been traveling the world teaching dance including Australia and South Africa. Sabra does have future goals of maybe taking her talents to Broadway and dance professionally. As far as Broadway goes, I think she would be amazing.

Joshua Allen is the most recent winner of SYTYCD on season 4, taking home the grand prize of $250,000. There isn’t too much to report on him since his win didn’t take place as long as even a year ago, but he has been around. Joshua was one of the least trained dancers on the show but really showed his talents to the world. Also, like Benji, he was never found among the bottom three dancers. Since the show he has been teaching workshops around the country. It will be interesting to see how his career develops over the years and where this win will take him. Whatever he does though, he will be living his dream.