A small-town girl with big-time personality, Jordan Clark has danced her way into Canada's heart.
The 19-year-old contemporary dancer from Tottenham, Ont., claimed So You Think You Can Dance Canada's top prize on Sunday night's finale after earning the better chunk of 1.6 million fan votes.
Along with the title of Canada's Favourite Dancer, Clark — a sassy redhead with abs of steel — took home $100,000 and a new Chevrolet Cruze.
"Thank you so much!" were the only words a shaking Clark could muster after host Leah Miller (who was impossible to miss in a sparkly 20-pound Vanna White dress) read the results after Sunday's Season 4 wrapup on CTV.
"Oh my God! ... I can't even breathe right now."
Following the show, Clark said she has yet to figure out what she's going to do with the cash. She's not the only prize winner; runnerup Melissa Mitro, 23, of Richmond Hill, Ont., also drove off with a car, while several other members of the Top 6 — which also included Montreal's Christian Millette, Stouffville, Ont.'s Lindsay Leuschner, Quispamsis, N.B.'s Matt Marr and Thornhill, Ont.'s Shane Simpson — won $5,000 a piece.
In typical reality competition fashion, there was plenty of show to get through — about two hours worth — before the big reveal.
Though rather than relying on recaps and irrelevant guest stars (aka filler), the episode played out like a best-of special, as the judges — a super-sized panel included "honourary Canadian" Mary Murphy, Emmy-winning choreographer Mia Michaels, Rex Harrington, Sean Cheesman and Sergio Trujillo and regulars Jean Marc Genereux, Tre Armstrong, Luther Brown and Blake McGrath — sat back and requested their favourite routines of the season.
The best of the best were Clark and former contender Joey Arrigo's theatrical jazz routine set to Frank Sinatra's That's Life, Simpson and Mitro's dangerously hot salsa routine, Millette and Clark's contemporary piece from a few weeks back (they nailed the split lift this time) and castoff Adam LoPapa (dang he's good ... what were you thinking, Canada?) and Mitro's ridiculously difficult contemporary routine — which they made even more difficult with a move involving LoPapa tossing Mitro in the air, and drawing some blood in the process. Oops.
Other highlights included an appearance/performance from Season 2 winner Tara Popowich and Season 3 winner Dennis Drozdyuk, a tribute to 9/11 choreographed by Stacey Tookey, a handful of splashy group numbers from the entire Top 22 and a cute clip where the Top 6 talk about their cultural backgrounds (like true Canadians, not one of them said "Canadian").
Did the best dancer win? Tough to say. Canada's dance talent pool is deep — and despite us never hearing from them again after each season ends, SYTYCDC alums have been quite successful, dancing backup for everyone from Lady Gaga to Beyonce to Kanye West. Heck, the judges couldn't even decide on a Top 4, so they pushed the entire Top 6 into the finale and let Canada do their dirty work.
Clark was up there, but Mitro — with her gymnast's build and ballerina grace — was also a shoo-in for the top spot.
Though since Mitro did come in second only to curly-coifed sweetheart Clark — a fiery ball of sex appeal, disciplined strength and theatricality — I'd say Canada did good.
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