YnbU.png' alt='Kathryn Mccormick So You Think You Can Dance Season 6' title='Kathryn Mccormick So You Think You Can Dance Season 6' />So You Think You Can Dance U. S. TV seriesSo You Think You Can Dance is an American televised dance competition show that airs on Fox in the United States and is the flagship series of the international So You Think You Can Dance television franchise. It was created by American Idol producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and is produced by 1. Entertainment, Dick Clark Productions and Conrad Sewell Productions. The series premiered on July 2. Gear Well, Thats Not So Bad, But Still Very Bad. When you get right down to it, the CEO of a publicly traded company is responsible for one thing, and one. The first season was hosted by American news personality Lauren S. Since the second season, it has been hosted by former British childrens television personality and game show emcee Cat Deeley. News, Photos and Information about Chicago Tribune. See Kareem AbdulJabbar, Al Franken and more at the 2017 Printers Row Lit Fest. Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. Requires free registration. During its second season, the program remained the No. The show features a tiered format wherein dancers trained in a variety of dance genres enter open auditions held in a number of major U. S. At the end of this process, a small number of dancers are chosen as finalists. These dancers move on to the competitions main phase, where they perform solo, duet, and group dance numbers on live television. They compete for the votes of the broadcast viewing audience which, combined with the input of a panel of judges, determines which dancers advance to the next stage from week to week. The number of finalists has varied as determined by a seasons format, but has often been 2. Competitors attempt to master various dance styles, including classical, contemporary, ballroom, hip hop, street, club, jazz, and musical theatre styles, among others. These are usually assigned by a luck of the draw system during the successive weeks of elimination. The eventual champion wins a cash prize typically 2. In thirteen seasons, the winners have been Nick Lazzarini, Benjamin. Girard and Wespi Tschopp shared the title as dual winners for the ninth season, and Yakima and Stegall as the winners of the tenth. Since season 7, finalists have been paired with a So You Think You Can Dance. Licensed variations of the show, produced for broadcast markets in other nations, began airing in August 2. So You Think You Can Dance have been produced in as many countries. On January 3. 0, 2. Fox renewed the series for a fourteenth season, which returns to its former contestant age range of 1. All Star partnerships. Though it is produced over the course of months, the selection phase is highly edited and usually constitutes only the first 24 weeks of aired episodes, with the competition episodes forming the remaining 89 weeks of the season. Open auditions. The cities where auditions are held change from season to season but some, such as Los Angeles and New York, have featured in most seasons. During this stage, dancers perform a brief routine typically a solo, but duet and group routines are allowed as well before a panel of dance experts, usually headed by series creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. This panel then decides on the spot whether the dancer demonstrated enough ability and performance value to proceed further. If the dancer exhibited exceptional ability in their performance, judges award a. Alternatively, if judges are on the fence about the dancer, they will ask the contestant to wait until the end of that days auditions to participate in a short test of their ability to pick up professional choreography. Callbacks. The dancers are put through a battery of rounds that test their ability to pick up various dance styles typically some of the more well represented genres that are later prominent in the competition phase, such as hip hop, jazz, ballroom and contemporary. Additionally they may be asked to perform further solos in styles of their choosing and, since season 2, participate in a group choreography round in which small teams of contestants must display their musicality and ability to communicate professionally by choreographing a performance to a randomly selected piece of music this challenge is notable as being the only time competitors are asked to choreograph themselves, aside from solos. The Callbacks are often collectively portrayed as one of the most exhausting and stressful stages of the competition each successive round sees cuts in which a significant portion of the remaining dancers are eliminated from competition and dancers are given a limited amount of time to adapt to styles they are sometimes wholly unfamiliar with while being physically taxed by the rapid progression of rounds and a limited amount of rest. At the end of this process, usually less than 4. Most seasons have featured 2. Season One was represented by a Top 1. Season Seven saw a Top 1. Finalist selection and showcase episode. Since Season six, the series has also featured a showcase episode that takes place immediately before the main competition. In this showcase, dancers compete for the first time on the main SYTYCD stage in Los Angeles before a live audience, dancing duet or group routines, but only in their own styles. Mighty Med The Mother Of All Villains Full Episode on this page. In seasons eight through ten, the finalist announcement episode and the dancers showcase were combined into one episode, with groups of dancers taking to the stage for the first time immediately after they are revealed. In seasons six through nine, no dancers were in danger of elimination at this point and the first round of viewer voting and judge eliminations occurred the following week in the slightly truncated format of the most recent seasons of ten and eleven, the dancer showcase is the first episode to be accompanied by viewer voting and a resulting elimination. Top 2. 0 to Top 1. The competition stage is divided into 8 weeks, with two contestants eliminated per week or in the case of season 7, one contestant. Dancers are paired up in some seasons at random, and in others by judges into male female couples that will stay paired for half of the remaining competition if neither is eliminated. These couples perform 12 duets per week in randomly selected styles. These duets, as with all non solo performances at this stage in the competition, are choreographed by professional choreographers, who are often noteworthy names in their own genres or American dance culture at large. Prior to most duet performances, a video packet of clips of the couple preparing to perform the routine is shown these packets are intended not only to demonstrate the couples efforts to master the routine, but also to give glimpses of the personalities of the dancers as well as to allow the choreographer to give insight as to the thematic, narrative, and artistic intentions of the piece. Following each duet performance, the weeks panel of judges gives critical feedback, often emphasizing the two key areas of technique and performance value. These duets and their accompanying video packets and critiques typically take up the majority of a competition show but may be supplemented by solos or group numbers during the later portion of the season. Each competition show ends with a quick recap of the nights routines accompanied by on screen reminders of the telephone numbers by which at home viewers can vote for the contestants of their choosing and it is at this point that those lines open to receive votes. As of Season 8, voting can also be performed online. Performance shows typically last two hours, commercials included. In seasons 2 8 the shows weekly format was split between two episodes, a performance episode, as described above, and a results show which reveals the outcome of the at home viewer voting. Results shows typically aired on the night immediately following that of the performance show of the same week and usually opened with a group routine from the remaining contestants. So You Think You Can Dance TV Series 2. Edit. Dancers skilled in everything from ballroom and ballet to salsa, jive, hip hop and krumping, all compete to be named the best. Dancers must impress the judges with their moves and rigorous routines in order to survive the auditions and be invited to Hollywood. Producers traveled to Chicago, New York and Los Angeles in search of dancers who represent the soul and rhythm of America. Some dancers wow the judges, while others leave them speechless. See who struts into the producers hearts and who trips up on the series premiere. A fortunate 5. 0 dancers who survive the auditions will go to Hollywood to work with five of the top choreographers in the business Alex Da Silva, Brian Friedman, Dan Karaty, Mia Michaels and Mary Murphy.