Sore muscles and joyful leaps: the quest to be crowned BBC Young Dancer
From ballet to hip-hop, 20 finalists train for thousands of hours in the hope of winning BBC Four's first contest for dancers aged 16 to 20Twenty-year-old Jonadette Carpio strides across the floor, and her lip curls into a snarl. She's petite and unassuming, but then she stamps her foot and the room shakes, the DJ's bassy beats quaking our plastic seats. Carpio launches into an aggressive dance routine, a robotic kru…