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So You Think You Can Dance

Genres: Reality Competition
Broadcast on: M-Net, M-Net Series Reality, M-Net Series, Vuzu, Mzansi Magic, Vuzu Amp, M-Net Family

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Seasons

Season 2

Channel Premiere Finale TX Time Episodes
Fox 26 May 2006 16 Aug 2006 Various Times 23
M-Net Series 05 Oct 2006 08 Mar 2007 Thursdays, 19h30 - 20h30 23


Season 2

From the creators of American Idols and the producers of The American Music Awards comes the search for America's best dancer.

Dancers skilled in everything from ballroom and ballet to salsa and hip-hop compete to be named the best. The prize up for grabs is a one-year contract dancing in Celine Dion's "New Day" extravaganza at the Coliseum in Las Vegas as well as a new car and $100,000.

The show starts with a nationwide casting call where dancers must impress the judges with their moves and routines to survive the auditions. Those who do are invited to a dance 'boot camp' where they're  put through their paces by top choreographers.

Only the best 20 move forward to the studio shows where they learn challenging routines and dance their hearts out individually and in pairs to impress the panel of judges and audiences who play their part by voting.

The first season of the show was hosted by Lauren Sanchez. Since Season 2 it has been hosted by British presenter Cat Deeley.

Show Format

After travelling around the country looking for the best dancers, producers invite 500 of the most talented to attend casting sessions in major cities across the nation.

At the casting sessions, each dancer must perform their own routine in front of a panel of judges, who then decide immediately who is good enough to continue.

Those chosen to stay work on a routine as a group, and after a further round of eliminations followed by a choreographed routine with a partner, the final 50 are selected to move on to the Dance Boot Camp.

At the Dance Boot Camp, each of the dancers is put through their paces by 5 choreographers, who take them through a variety of dance styles, from Hip Hop, to the Flamenco.

At the end of the camp, the group is immediately cut down, 20 of whom will be chosen to move forward to the studio shows after one-to-one interviews with the choreographers. This group is then cut down to a final 10.

Each studio show is structured the same way. As contestants are eliminated the remaining participants are randomly paired together, and the dances they need to perform the following week are drawn from a hat.

We follow each couple as they learn their routine by a top choreographer, before performing that routine in front of the panel of choreographers, and a live studio audience.

Once all the couples have performed, the panel identify the 3 weakest couples (or in later shows, 2 weakest couples) to go up for elimination by the public who vote for their favourites to stay.

Each dancer has an opportunity to encourage voters to keep them in the competition by dancing a solo routine for 45 seconds immediately before the phone lines are opened.

Each week, one guy and one girl is eliminated until only 4 dancers remain.

After performing for the last time, all 4 dancers are put to the public vote and it is the public who decide the final winner.

Dance styles featured on the show include jazz, contemporary, pop, modern, American jive, swing, disco, hip hop, krumping, paso doble, quickstep, lyrical, Broadway, Viennese waltz, smooth waltz, Argentine tango, mambo, cha cha, Cuban rumba, and salsa.

There are three judges on each show, one of whom is always producer Nigel Lythgoe. The other two judges are a rotation of professional dancers and choreographers.


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