

So You Think You Can Dance has won seven Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography and a total of nine Emmy Awards altogether. 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, until a winner is crowned as "America's favorite dancer". These dancers move on to the competition's main phase, where they perform solo, duet, and group dance numbers on live television, attempting to master a diverse selection of dance styles, including classical, contemporary, ballroom, hip-hop, street, club, jazz and musical theatre styles, among others. At the end of this process, a small number of dancers are chosen as finalists. cities to showcase their talents and move forward through successive additional rounds of auditions to test their ability to adapt to different styles.


The show features a format where dancers trained in a variety of dance genres enter open auditions held in a number of major U.S. Since the second season, it has been hosted by English former children's television personality and game show emcee Cat Deeley. The first season was hosted by American news personality Lauren Sánchez. It was created by American Idol producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and is produced by 19 Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions The series premiered on July 20, 2005, with over ten million viewers and ended the summer season as the top-rated show on television. So You Think You Can Dance ( SYTYCD) is an American reality television 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.
