Joshua Allen was the fourth dancer to be crowned the winner of So You Think You Can Dance before his death at age 36. "I took a few modern dance classes, ballet classes, because I felt that to be a better dancer I would have to take different classes, and, you know, expand my horizons in the art of dance," he told Entertainment Weekly in 2008 after his season 4 victory. "I didn't want to audition for the show not knowing anything. Dallas was [early in the audition process], and after I made it to Vegas - there were months before we actually went - I took as many classes as I could.