The first four competitors have been eliminated from the latest season of So You Think You Can Dance.
Contemporary dancers Alexa Anderson and Janaya French were sent home along with ballroom dancer Nick Bloxsom-Carter and ballet dancer Daniel Baker. All had finished up in the bottom six following a public vote.
The judges ultimately elected to save latin/ballroom dancer Witney Carson and ballet specialist Chehon Wespi-Tschopp.
Following changes to the show's format including the loss of the stand-alone results show, the dancers were not given the chance to perform a 'last-chance' solo in order to convince the panel - regular judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, plus guest judge Adam Shankman - that they should stay in the competition.
However, each of the Top 20 performed again during the show, but with a different partner from last week's programme.
Along with Carson and Wespi-Tschopp, the other dancers who made the cut were Amber Jackson, Janelle Issis, Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer, Matthew Kazmierczak, Dareian "Dare" Kujawa, Amelia Lowe, Eliana Girard, Brandon Mitchell, George Lawrence, Tiffany Maher, Lindsay Arnold, Cole Horibe, Audrey Case and Will Thomas.
So You Think You Can Dance airs on Wednesdays at 8/7c on Fox.
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