So You Think You Can Dance Australia

Final 10 Verdict (1x17)

Air date: Mar 31, 2008

Sunday night's show delivered more thrills and spills than a week on a rollercoaster. Ten solos and five duos – that's a lotta dancing. But now the judges have no power to save or send these dashing dancers home: it's your votes alone who will decide who becomes Australia's favourite dancer… Kicking off the show with the high quality we've grown accustomed to, our Top Ten had no trouble busting out their sweetest Hip Hop moves in a Nacho Pop choreographed routine. By now we're all experts on what Locking and Popping is, and even though there is but one b-gal left in the Top Ten, every dancer onstage looked like a pro. But not every dancer would be back next week… And now it's down to business. The judges expressed their interest in seeing how the country would vote after the past few weeks of sharing their opinion on all things dance. First up, our girls. It was a very nervous Vanessa, Rhiannon, Kate, Jemma and Demi upon stage next to the gorgeous Natalie B, each waiting to find out how last night's performances were judges by a dance-hungry public. Last night Demi was a Contemporary critter bugging out to The Strokes. Bonnie said she was just magic, but Jason wasn't as enamored with her solo. Luckily the country was – she was safe! Jemma performed a Jive which didn't have the judges shaking their tail feathers, and a duo which Jason described as beige. Kate cleaned up with last night's Hip Hop, and Matt thought she owned her 'Queen of the Night' solo. The country agreed – Kate was safe, while Jemma was in the bottom four. Vanessa performed a sensual Contemporary routine, which had the judges in agreeance: simply beautiful. Her solo inspired Bonnie to say she was the genie who had come out of the bottle and there was no going back. Rhiannon paired with Henry for an intensely personal routine, which had Bonnie saying it was the best routine of the night. Her Hip Hop solo had Jason saying it was very her, and it was hot. Australia, it seems, didn