So 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.
The series premiered on July 20, 2005 with over ten million viewers
and ended the summer season as the top-rated show on television. SYTYCD
was created by American Idol producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and is produced by 19 Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions.
The first season was hosted by current American news personality Lauren
Sánchez. Since the second season, it has been hosted by former British
children's television personality and one-time game show emcee Cat Deeley.
During its second season, the program remained the No. 1 rated summer
show (adults aged 18–49) but it has declined in ratings since and,
despite an initial ratings rise at the beginning of season 9, the show
has since hit an all-time low in viewership (at 4.16 million for season
9's Top 8 show).
The show features a tiered format wherein dancers from a variety of
styles enter open auditions held in a number of major U.S. cities to
showcase their unique styles and talents and, if allowed to move
forward, then are put through additional rounds of auditions to test
their ability to adapt to different styles. At the end of this process, a
small number of dancers are chosen as finalists. These dancers move on
to the competition's main phase, where they perform solo, duet, and
group dance numbers in a variety of styles. 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
season's format, but has typically been 20 contestants.
The show features a broad variety of American and international dance styles including classical, contemporary, ballroom, hip-hop, street, club, jazz, and musical theatre
styles, amongst others, with many sub-genres within the categories
represented. Competitors attempt to master these styles—which are
generally, but not always, assigned by a luck-of-the-draw system—to
survive successive weeks of elimination. The eventual champion wins a
cash prize (typically $250,000) and the title of "America's Favorite
Dancer". In nine seasons, the winners have been Nick Lazzarini, Benjamin
Schwimmer, Sabra Johnson, Joshua Allen, Jeanine Mason,
Russell Ferguson, Lauren Froderman, Melanie Moore, Eliana Girard and
Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, with Girard and Wespi-Tschopp sharing the title as
dual-winners for season 9. The show has won seven Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography and a total of nine Emmys altogether.
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