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KOURTNI LIND AND MATT DORAME ARE ELIMINATED ON "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE"

TOP 12 FINALISTS COMPETE AS COUPLES ON NEXT PERFORMANCE SHOW WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, ON FOX

Singer Katy Perry and Members of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater To Perform on Results Show Thursday, July 10

Finalists Kourtni Lind and Matt Dorame were eliminated tonight on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Lind, 18, is a Jazz/Contemporary dancer from Forest Lake, MN, and Dorame, 22, is a Contemporary dancer from Glendale, AZ.

The three couples who received the fewest votes after Wednesday's performance show were: Kourtni Lind and Matt Dorame; Courtney Galiano and Gev Manoukian; and Comfort Fedoke and Thayne Jasperson. After each of the six finalists "danced for their lives," the judges eliminated Lind and Dorame from the competition.

Next week, the competition gets even more intense on television's most original dance show when the remaining 12 dancers (Joshua Allen, Twitch Boss, Comfort Fedoke, Courtney Galiano, Chelsie Hightower, Thayne Jasperson, Mark Kanemura, Jessica King, Gev Manoukian, Kherington Payne, Katee Shean and Will Wingfield) compete as couples once again on a two-hour performance show Wednesday, July 9 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

The following night, Katy Perry will perform her hit single, "I Kissed a Girl"; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater members Clifton Brown, Jamar Roberts and Kirven J. Boyd will entertain the audience with an excerpt of Ailey�s signature masterpiece "Revelations"; and the judges will send two more dancers home on the live results show Thursday, July 10 (9:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.

Emmy-winning SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE was created by Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and comes from 19 Entertainment Ltd. and Dick Clark Productions, Inc. It is executive-produced by Simon Fuller, Nigel Lythgoe and Barry Adelman.