‘So You Think You Can Dance’ judge Mary Murphy speaks to The Times about Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss following his death by suicide.
Mary Murphy will never forget the moment Stephen “Twitch” Boss commanded the Las Vegas stage to compete on the hit Fox series “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Almost 15 years later, the “So You Think You Can Dance” judge is coincidentally back in Vegas on Wednesday as she fights back tears following Boss’ death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“He came out, and I’ll never forget it as long as I live because it was a defining moment in a dancer’s life, when they dance in front of you and one is with the universe, the music, the choreography,” Murphy told The Times by telephone from her hotel room as she got ready for the first day of the Holiday Dance Classic, a national dance competition she co-owns.
“[There was] a symphony of all music playing because usually it’s hip-hop music, and he was playing a classical piece and his body was like showing us all the different instruments that were being played in the symphony,” she said. “And it just kept getting better and it just kept getting better. And it climaxed right at the right time, right at the end.
