Spoiler Alert

Last night was the season finale of So You Think You Can Dance, a show that is a gift from the reality show gods if there ever was one. Can you tell I like it? I also like who won, and I even like the finalists that could have won but didn't. I'm just full of like today, guys. After the jump, check out the first dance the winner performed in the competition..

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CELEB SECRETS Mya unveiled her talent for tapping on last night's premiere episode of the ridiculous Secret Talents of the Stars, but is this talent such a big secret if she has already showed it off in one of her videos? Anything to get on a reality show. [CL]

Update: The show was canceled after just one episode. That's all we need to know.

Katherine Dunham

A daily Black History Month fact that has nothing to do with George Washington Carver, MLK, Jr., or Harriet Tubman. Promise!

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Katherine Dunham was a dancer, choreographer, actress who performed in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky and in like movies Star Spangled Rhythm (1941), Pardon My Sarong (1942), and the black musical, Stormy Weather (1943). In 1945, Dunham opened a dance and theater school, where she taught a young Eartha Kitt, James Dean, Shelly Winters, and Warren Beatty, among others. Despite her dedication to dance, Dunham was also outspoken about civil rights — she once refused to sign a Hollywood studio contract after execs requested she replace some of the darker members of her company and she frequently refused to play at venues that did not allow blacks. At the age of 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s policy to repatriate Haitian refugees. Dunham, who was also a writer and anthropologist, died in May of 2006 at the age of 97.

This concludes your daily dose of BHM.

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Is Big Boi going to adapt and write some lyrics to Swan Lake, or will the Atlanta Ballet suck it up and choreograph something elegant to "Player's Ball"? I don't know who's responsible for making the 180 degree turn, but it's official. Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet are teaming up for a string of performances next year. Janet Collins is probably rolling in her grave.

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