During the fourth round of auditions for Season 15 of So You Think You Can Dance, the judges are treated to a performance by Arcadian Broad in New York. The solo ballet dancer performs to the quiet song “Fingertips” by OneRepublic. Arcadian’s pirouettes are amazing and they have judge Nigel Lythgoe rhetorically asking aloud, “How do you do that?”
This isn’t Arcadian’s first time on national television. At age 13, he made his TV debut when he became a semi-finalist on America’s Got Talent (Season 4, 2009; country singer Kevin Skinner won that year). At 16, Arcadian was the youngest dancer hired by Orlando Ballet. At 21, he debuted his first full-length production (he served as composer and choreographer), Arcadian Broad’s Beauty and the Beast. Today, the 23-year-old is a principal dancer and artist in residence at Orlando Ballet Company and School. Sorry ladies, Arcadian is taken. He’s in a relationship with dancer Taylor Sambola who also dances with Orlando Ballet Company and School. So You Think You Can Dance airs Mondays at 8pm on FOX.
After his performance at the AGT semi-finals, Arcadian spoke up about the performance, which he did not choose. He said the high school musical number was the idea of the AGT producers, not his.
