“So You Think You Can Dance” Choreographer Alex Da Silva Arrested For Sexual Assault

So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Alex Da Silva was arrested Saturday for alleged sexual assaults on four of his dancing students. Read more on Da Silva’s arrest details below.

Alex Da Silva, a dancer and choreographer has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting four of his dance students.

Los Angeles police say Alex Da Silva, 41, who teaches at several Los Angeles dance studios, was taken into custody after teaching a class at a Hollywood studio Saturday afternoon and booked for investigation of sexual assault.

Det. John Eum said Da Silva is being held on $3.8 million bail, and is scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday.

Police say the four victims told investigators that Da Silva had lured them to his homes in North Hollywood and Van Nuys, then used a ruse to get them into his bedroom where he raped them. The alleged incidents occured between May of 2003, and March of this year.

Da Silva won the World Salsa Dancing Championships in 2002 and 2007, and has been teaching at the Edge Performing Arts Center in North Hollywood and the Mayan Club in downtown Los Angeles. Da Silva has also choreographed and performed for the Fox TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Da Silva had been accused in 2003, 2004 and 2005 of sexually assaulting three women, but for unknown reasons prosecutors declined to file charges in those incidents, Eum said.

Then on March 28, a fourth woman made the same claim. Detectives then went back to interview the previous accusers, found similarities between all the accusations, and reopened their cases.

“These four women don’t know each other at all, yet their reports read basically the same,” the detective said. He noted that one of the accusers was a minor at the time of the alleged assault.

“We’re almost sure there are probably other victims out there and we hope they’ll come forward,” he said.

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