So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 12)
| Broadcast from | June 1 – September 14, 2015 |
|---|---|
| Judges |
Nigel Lythgoe Paula Abdul Jason Derulo |
| Host(s) | Cat Deeley |
| Broadcaster | Fox |
| Gaby Diaz | |
| Origin | Miami, Florida |
| Genre(s) | Tap |
| Džajna "Jaja" Vaňková | |
So You Think You Can Dance, an American dance competition show, returned for its twelfth season on Monday, June 1, 2015. Seventeen episodes were broadcast on the Fox Network, including episode nine on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, which was a special celebrating the tenth anniversary of the show titled "A Decade of Dance Special Edition". The sixteen regular episodes aired each week on Mondays, rather than Wednesdays as it had been in recent previous seasons. On September 14, 2015, Gaby Diaz won the competition and made history by becoming the first tap dancer to win the title.
Auditions were held in Dallas TX, Detroit MI, Los Angeles CA, Memphis TN and New York NY.
Series creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe returned as a member of the permanent judging panel, along with new permanent members Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo.
The Team Captains, Travis Wall for Team Stage and tWitch for Team Street, were consulted on the selections for each team during the Vegas Call Backs.
Mary Murphy, who was a permanent judge in seasons 3 through 6 and seasons 8 through to 11, has not returned. Host Cat Deeley returns for her eleventh consecutive season.
Season 12 featured a significant shift in format in that it was the first season where contestants were not selected based on their gender. Contestants were selected based on whether the competitor considered themselves a "Stage" dancer or a "Street" dancer. Stage styles included ballet, ballroom, contemporary, jazz, latin and tap, while the Street styles included freestyle, break dancing, hip-hop, and krump. Previously, the Dancers were selected across all genres and were divided by gender, with ten men and ten women being selected for the Top Twenty. This new format allowed the judges to respond to the strong number of female street dancers, and resulted in the Top Twenty, being eleven female and nine male dancers.
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