SYTYCD 5 Profile Spotlight on Evan Kasprzak

Evan Kasprzak

Birthday: June 15, 1987

Specialty: Broadway

Status: Single

Hometown: West Bloomfield, Mich.

Currently Resides: West Bloomfield, Mich.

Age: 21

School: “I attend Illinois Wesleyan University, BFA Music Theatre Class of 2010”

Other talents/hobbies: “I love cars! I built my own car my senior year in high school. I also like rock climbing, skiing, and when there is time I enjoy cooking.”

Favorite professional dancer: “No doubt, Gene Kelly.”

Choreographers would like to work with: “I hope I have the opportunity to work with Andy Blankenbuehler and Mia Michaels.”

Dancer Profile:

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Has weekend plans: “I love cooking. It’s one of my hobbies — cars, cooking, rock climbing, kind of an eclectic assembly of things – But yeah, we have Sunday nights off so I’m going to try and cook like family dinner for everybody.”

Has one year of college left: “The head of the music theater department approached me when he heard I was auditioning again and said, look, here’s the deal, you have to promise me you’re going to come back and finish. I don’t care when you come back, you just have to come back! I was like, okay.” by Korbi Ghosh, Zap2it.com

Kasprzak graduated from Wylie E. Groves High School and currently attends Illinois Wesleyan University. He has been dancing since he was 6 years old, and his most memorable dance experience was performing in a Gregory Hines tribute with Hines’ family in the audience. (FOX)

Top 4 solo performance, Final 4: “The Best Is Yet to Come”—Michael Bublé

Evan’s Top 6 Solo: “The Lady Is a Tramp”—Sammy Davis, Jr.

Evan’s Top 8 Solo: “Old Devil Moon”—Jamie Cullum

Evan’s Top 10 Solo: “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” – Rufus Wainwright

Evan’s signature ‘hat in the air to the head’ move:

Interview with Jeanine Mason