Janette Manrara
Janette Manrara Škorjanec is a Cuban professional dancer and choreographer. She is best known for her appearances on the US series So You Think You Can Dance and British dance reality television competition, Strictly Come Dancing. In 2015, she became engaged to long time partner and Burn the Floor co-star, Aljaž Skorjanic. The couple were married on 15 July 2017.
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Janette Manrara Škorjanec is a Cuban professional dancer and choreographer from Miami, Florida. She is best known for her appearances on the US series So You Think You Can Dance and British dance reality television competition, Strictly Come Dancing. In 2015, she became engaged to long time partner and Burn the Floor co-star, Aljaž Skorjanic. The couple were married on 15 July 2017. She began performing in musical theatre at age 12, and started her formal dance training at 19, studying ballroom, ballet, pointe, jazz and hip-hop. She studied Finance at Florida International University whilst completing her dance training.
In 2013 she performed a Quickstep with actor Ricky Norwood on the Christmas special. In 2014 she scored a maximum of 40 points in ‘The People’s StrictLY for Comic Relief’ for an American Smooth with, ‘Kidz R us’ founder, Phillip Barnett. For series 16, she was partnered with children’s television and This Morning doctor Dr. Ranj Singh. During her seventh series on the show, in 2019, she will be partnered with paralympian, Will Bayley. She has also danced with canoeist Joe Clarke in the 2016 Children in Need special.
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