Joshua Allen: Untrained or Trained?

Around the age of 10 Allen said he started to take dance classes, however it was only a summer endeavor and he was never technically trained.

"I took modern class, I took ballet classes and I took some jazz classes. But I wasn't technically trained like [fellow finalists William Wingfield, Mark Kanemura and Matt Dorame]. I just took class and I knew what everything was," he told reporters.

"I didn't want to go into the competition dumbfounded and act like I didn't know what nothing was. I felt like if you want to be a well-rounded dancer, than you should know a lot of different styles of dance. So I took classes, but I wasn't a technically trained dancer."

Source: RealityTVWorld