This TV show first aired on July 20, 2005 with 10 million viewers and ended the summer season as the top-rated show on television. So You Think You Can Dance 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.
Each season, dancers from around the country audition in various cities and ultimately in Las Vegas to get a spot in the Top 20. Once dancers are in the Top 20, they perform each week for the TV audience who in terms votes for their favorite Dancer. The dancer who manages to avoid elimination and gather the most votes at the finale from the viewers will then be crowned America’s Favorite Dancer. Together with “Dancing with the stars”, this is one of the best dance show to ever air on TV.
The show’s audience is mostly aged 18-50 years old. The reason they love it is because there are so many talented dancers who have to perform all styles of dance at a moment’s notice – it is very enticing and exhilarating to see if they can master the style week by week. Americans also love to vote for their favorites!
Here are the top 20 of the best So you think you can dance routines performed on the show:
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 these 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.