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Serge Onik, a dancer and choreographer who made the Top 20 on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” has died. He was 33.

“He was an amazing dancer with a huge heart and he touched the lives of everyone who met him,” Onik’s rep Jim Keith said in a statement. “He will be truly missed. This is a sad day for us at the agency and for the dance community as a whole.”

Onik competed on Season 11 of “Sytycd” in 2014. He was eliminated in Week 4, though later performed on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” “Bones” and “Jane the Virgin,” according to EW.

According to his Instagram and IMDb page, Onik also appeared in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film version of “In the Heights.”

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Dancer and choreographer Serge Onik, who appeared in season 11 of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, died at the age of 33. His cause of death is unknown.

Onik’s representative Jim Keith, president of The Movement Talent Agency, confirmed his death in a statement released to E! News and EW.

“He was an amazing dancer with a huge heart and he touched the lives of everyone who met him,” the statement said.

Onik was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine before moving to the U.S. when he was 3. He began dancing at the age of 9 while part of a Russian cultural program where he was taught the language, culture, and dances which he had to perform on stage.

Three years later, he joined in on the ballroom dance craze in which he immersed himself for 18 years as a competitor.

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The world of entertainment has lost a star. Serge Onik, a dancer and choreographer best known for competing on season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance, has died. He was only 33 years old. A rep for the performer confirmed his passing to E! News on Tuesday, Aug. 24. "He was an amazing dancer with a huge heart and he touched the lives of everyone who met him," Jim Keith, president of The Movement Talent Agency, shared in a statement. "He will be truly missed. This is a sad day for us at the agency and for the dance community as a whole. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family at this time." Additionally, television host Kristyn...

Ballroom dancer Serge Onik, who competed in Season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance, has died at the age of 33.

“He was an amazing dancer with a huge heart, and he touched the lives of everyone who met him,” Jim Keith, president of The Movement Talent Agency, which represented Onik, told EW.com in a statement. “He will be truly missed. This is a sad day for us at the agency and for the dance community as a whole.” (No cause of death for Onik has yet been released to the public.)

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