SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: Week 2′s eliminee talks backstage with GMMR

Smiling for the camera is not easy less than an hour after one of your life’s biggest dreams comes to an end.

And, sure enough, backstage at SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE this evening (Thursday, June 24), Cristina Santana admitted that she was having a bit of a hard time.

“I want to smile, but I am also sad because I wanted to stay longer,” I overheard her saying to a few reporters just before we spoke.

Still, Cristina put on a brave face and decided to look at the bright side.

“I think I did the best that I could,” she says in the video below. “And I really [will] enjoy this opportunity that I have to be now a [part of the] family of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Going through the auditions and Vegas Week twice, it’s something that I have to put on my mind and tell myself that I did a great job. Because a lot of people wanted to be in my place, and I was on it, I was one of the five girls and I am very happy.”

As you should be, girl.

Watch the clip for more from Cristina on this, as well as her family’s reaction to her elimination, and what she wants to tackle next…

But before Cristina hits the silver screen to star in a salsa flick, she’s going to have to spend a little more one-on-one time with yours truly. Just as I met up with eliminee Alexie Agdeppa for a post-show dance lesson last week, I will now meet up with Cristina to once again make a complete and total fool of myself, so please come back to GMMR this Monday to see that…

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