After Canada’s top 20 dancers performed a Michael Jackson tribute choreographed by Gil Duldulao last Wednesday, Toronto Hip Hop dancer Tatiana Parker, 21, is the first female dancer to be eliminated from CTV’s “So You Think You Can Dance Canada” Season 2.

Here are her performances:

Also eliminated was Taylor James from B.C., leaving Tatiana’s partner, Austin Di Lulio, a contemporary dancer from Mississauga, to dance with latin ballroom dancer Melanie Buttarazzi from Woodbridge. Keep this new Toronto area couple from having to dance for their lives by voting for them on the Top 18 show on Tuesday September 1, 2009!

Other dancers from Toronto and nearby that made it into the top 20 are Jenna Lynn Higgins from Toronto, Melanie Mah from Richmond Hill, Cody Bonnell from Unionville, and Everett Smith from Glen Moris.