Sermsah in action on So You Think You Can Dance

Dancing with Destiny

Sometimes things happen for a reason, almost like the universe has reached out and tapped you on the shoulder, drawing your attention towards a new path in life.

This is certainly how things happened for Sermsah Bin Saad, or Suri as Australia has come to know him through the hit reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance?

“I was working at Cable Beach Resort (in Broome, WA), cleaning up towels by the poolside,” he says. “I picked up this towel, and a magazine fell out and landed open on the page that had an ad asking for people to audition for So You Think You Can Dance?”

While the ad interested him, Suri was worried that perhaps the show was too commercial for someone like him – a predominantly traditional Aboriginal dancer.

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