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{{short description|Reality television dance competition show that airs on Fox in the US}}
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{{Infobox television
| image              = So You Think You Can Dance.svg
| creator            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Simon Fuller]]
* [[Nigel Lythgoe]]
}}
| developer          = Simon Fuller
| director           = {{Plainlist|
* [[Matthew Diamond]]
* [[Bruce Gowers]]
* Nigel Lythgoe
}}
| presenter          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Lauren Sánchez]]
* [[Cat Deeley]]
}}
| judges             = {{Plainlist|
* Nigel Lythgoe
* [[Mary Murphy (choreographer)|Mary Murphy]]
* [[Adam Shankman]]
* [[Mia Michaels]]
* [[Paula Abdul]]
* [[Jason Derulo]]
* [[Maddie Ziegler]]
* [[Vanessa Hudgens]]
* [[Stephen "tWitch" Boss]]
* [[Laurieann Gibson]]
* [[Dominic Sandoval|Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval]]
* [[JoJo Siwa]]
* [[Matthew Morrison]]
* [[Leah Remini]]
* [[Maksim Chmerkovskiy]]
* [[Allison Holker]]
}}
| country            = United States
| language           = English
| num_seasons        = 18
| num_episodes       = 319<!-- as of May 20, 2024 -->
| runtime            =
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* Barry Adelman
* Simon Fuller
* Nigel Lythgoe
* [[Allen Shapiro]]
}}
| company            = {{Plainlist|
* [[19 Entertainment]]
* [[Dick Clark Productions]] (2005–19, 2024–)
* [[MRC (company)|MRC Live & Alternative]] (2022)
}}
| network            = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
| first_aired        = {{Start date|2005|7|20}}
| last_aired         = present
}}

'''''So You Think You Can Dance''''' ('''''SYTYCD''''') is an American reality television [[dance competition]] show that currently airs on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] in the United States and is the flagship series of the international ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'' television franchise. 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. The first season was hosted by American news personality [[Lauren Sánchez]]. Since the second season, it has been hosted by English former children's television personality and game show emcee [[Cat Deeley]].

The show features a format where dancers trained in a variety of dance genres enter open auditions held in several major U.S. cities to showcase their talents and move forward through successive additional rounds of auditions to test their ability to adapt to different styles. At the end of this process, a little number of contestants are chosen. These contestants 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 [[Ballet|classical]], [[Contemporary dance|contemporary]], [[Ballroom dance|ballroom]], [[hip-hop dance|hip-hop]], [[Street dance|street]], [[Nightclub|club]], [[Jazz dance|jazz]] and [[musical theatre]] styles, among others. 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".

''So You Think You Can Dance'' has won seven [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography|Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography]] and a total of nine [[Emmy Awards]] altogether. Licensed variations of the show, produced for broadcast markets in other nations, began airing in August 2005 and dozens of localized adaptations of the show have been produced since, airing in 41 countries to date. The sixteenth season premiered June 3, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Returns For 16th Season on FOX 6/3|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/SO-YOU-THINK-YOU-CAN-DANCE-Returns-For-16th-Season-on-FOX-63-20190517/|work=[[BroadwayWorld]]|date=May 17, 2019|access-date=May 17, 2019|archive-date=April 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409133913/https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/SO-YOU-THINK-YOU-CAN-DANCE-Returns-For-16th-Season-on-FOX-63-20190517|url-status=live}}</ref> On February 20, 2020, the show was renewed for a seventeenth season, that was set to air in the summer of 2020,<ref>{{cite web|title=Emmy Award-Winning "So You Think You Can Dance" Returns For 17th Season on FOX|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/02/20/emmy-award-winning-so-you-think-you-can-dance-returns-for-17th-season-on-fox-8410/20200220fox01/|work=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=February 20, 2020}}</ref> but, due to the [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]], the season was indefinitely postponed on June 18, 2020,<ref>{{cite web|title=Fox Not Moving Forward With Production On 'So You Think You Can Dance' Due To COVID-19|url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/fox-so-you-think-you-can-dance-covid-19-1202963634/|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=June 18, 2020|access-date=June 19, 2020|archive-date=June 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619162457/https://deadline.com/2020/06/fox-so-you-think-you-can-dance-covid-19-1202963634/|url-status=live}}</ref> and eventually premiered on May 18, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosario |first=Alexandra Del |date=April 5, 2022 |title=Fox Sets Summer Premiere Dates For 'So You Think You Can Dance', 'MasterChef', 'Lego Masters', 'Fantasy Island' & More |url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/fox-summer-premiere-dates-so-you-think-you-can-dance-masterchef-1234994905/ |access-date=July 25, 2023 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |language=en-US |archive-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414163858/https://deadline.com/2022/04/fox-summer-premiere-dates-so-you-think-you-can-dance-masterchef-1234994905/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2023, it was revealed that an eighteenth season would start filming in Atlanta from December 4, 2023, to January 29, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ho |first=Rodney |title=EXCLUSIVE: Fox's 'So You Think You Can Dance' season 18 shooting in Atlanta |url=https://www.ajc.com/life/radiotvtalk-blog/exclusive-foxs-so-you-think-you-can-dance-season-18-shooting-in-atlanta/FGSPDK2AABAHTJQ3ZBYBZ42G3M/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Georgia Entertainment Scene Blog (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) |language=English}}</ref> The eighteenth season would premiere on March 4, 2024.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.etonline.com/nigel-lythgoe-will-not-appear-on-so-you-think-you-can-dance-season-18-amid-sexual-assault-lawsuits|title=Nigel Lythgoe Will Not Appear on 'So You Think You Can Dance' Season 18 Amid Sexual Assault Lawsuits|first=Paige|last=Gawley|publisher=Entertainment Tonight|date=2024-03-04|accessdate=2024-03-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mitovich |first=Matt Webb |date=2023-12-05 |title=So You Think You Can Dance Renewed for Season 18 With a New Judging Panel — Including Nigel Lythgoe (Exclusive) |url=https://tvline.com/news/so-you-think-you-can-dance-renewed-season-18-atlanta-1235091948/ |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=TVLine |language=en-US |archive-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205213757/https://tvline.com/news/so-you-think-you-can-dance-renewed-season-18-atlanta-1235091948/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Lythgoe departed from the show in January 2024 following a sex abuse lawsuit from one of the show's judges Paula Abdul.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/nigel-lythgoe-out-so-you-think-you-can-dance-lawsuit-1235862979/|title=Nigel Lythgoe Steps Down From 'So You Think You Can Dance' Amid Sex Abuse Lawsuits|first=Gene|last=Maddus|publisher=Variety|date=2024-01-05|accessdate=2024-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/arts/television/nigel-lythgoe-sytycd-judge-sexual-assault.html|title='So You Think You Can Dance' Judge Exits After Paula Abdul Lawsuit|first=Julia|last=Jacobs|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2024-01-05|accessdate=2024-01-07}}</ref> JoJo Siwa would join the judging panel to replace Lythgoe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Peter |date=2024-01-26 |title=JoJo Siwa Returns To 'So You Think You Can Dance' To Replace Nigel Lythgoe Following Sexual Assault Accusations |url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/jojo-siwa-returns-to-so-you-think-you-can-dance-replacing-nigel-lythgoe-1235806395/ |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Show format==
[[File:Cat_Deeley_2011.jpg|thumb|200px|Television presenter Cat Deeley has served as the host of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' since its second season, presenting every episode since 2006.]]
A typical season of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' is divided between a selection process, during which expert judges select competitors from a wide pool of applicant dancers, and a competition phase, during which these 'finalists' (more typically referred to as the 'Top 20') compete for votes from home viewers. Although it is produced over months, the selection phase is highly edited and usually constitutes only the first 2 to 4 weeks of aired episodes with the competition episodes forming the remaining 7 to 9 weeks of the season.

===Open auditions===
The open auditions, the first stage in determining a season's contestants, take place in 2 to 6 major U.S. cities each season and are typically open to anyone aged 18 to 30 at the time of their audition, although season 13 focused on a younger class of contestants, ages 8 to 14. The cities where auditions are held change from season to season but some, such as [[Los Angeles]] and [[New York City]], have featured in most seasons. During this stage, the contestants perform a brief routine (typically a solo, but duet and group routines are allowed as well) before a panel of dance experts usually headed by series creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. This panel then decides on the spot whether the dancer demonstrated enough ability and performance value to proceed further. If the contestant exhibited exceptional ability in their performance, judges award "a ticket to Vegas" (or in more recent seasons "a ticket to the Academy"), moving them instantly one step forward in the competition. Alternatively, if judges are on the fence about the contestant, they may ask the contestant to wait until the end of that day's auditions to participate in a short test of their ability to pick up professional choreography.

===Callbacks===
The second stage of the selection process is referred to as "the callbacks" (this round was referenced as "Vegas Week" for much of the show's run, as it was held in [[Las Vegas]], but has been called Academy Week since season 13, later called the Choreography Round in season 17). The callbacks consist of a several-day-long process in which the remaining hopefuls are tested for overall well-rounded dance ability, stamina, creativity, and ability to perform under pressure. The contestants are put through a battery of rounds that test their ability to pick up various dance styles; these are typically some of the more well-represented genres that are later prominent in the competition phase, such as hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, and contemporary. Additionally, the contestants may be asked to perform further solos in styles of their choosing and participate in a group choreography round in which small teams of contestants must display their musicality and ability to communicate professionally by choreographing a performance to a randomly selected piece of music — this challenge is notable as being the only time contestants are asked to choreograph themselves, aside from solos.

The callbacks are often collectively portrayed as one of the most exhausting and stressful stages of the competition; each successive round sees cuts in which a significant portion of the remaining contestants are eliminated from the competition and are given a limited amount of time to adapt to styles they are sometimes wholly unfamiliar with while being physically taxed by the rapid progression of rounds and a limited amount of rest. At the end of this process, usually less than 40 contestants remain in a pool the top contestants are chosen. Most seasons have featured 20 "top" contestants for the competition portion of the show, but season 1 was represented by a Top 16, season 7 saw a Top 11, seasons 13 through 16 and 18 have featured a Top 10, and season 17 saw a Top 12.

===Contestant stage===
Following the contestant selection process, the show transitions into its regular competition phase, which lasts for the rest of the season. The competition stage is typically divided into eight weeks, generally with two contestants eliminated per week. Dancers are paired up into female-male couples that will sometimes stay paired for much of the remaining competition if neither is eliminated (since season 7, contestants have also been occasionally paired with "All Stars", returning contestants from previous seasons who pair up with the contestants, but who are not themselves competing). These couples perform 1 or 2 duets per week in different styles which are typically, but not always, randomly selected. These duets, as with all non-solo performances at this stage in the competition, are choreographed by professional choreographers. Before most duet performances, a video packet of clips of the couple preparing to perform the routine is shown. These packets are intended not only to demonstrate the couple's efforts to master the routine, but also to give glimpses of the personalities and personal histories of the dancers, as well as insights from the choreographer as to the thematic, narrative, and artistic intentions of the piece. Following each duet performance, the week's panel of judges gives critical feedback, often emphasizing the two key areas of technique and performance value. Duets and their accompanying video packets and critiques typically take up the majority of an episode but are often supplemented by solos, group numbers, and occasionally guest dance or musical performances.

[[File:Nigel Lythgoe.jpg|thumb|200px|alt=Picture of Nigel Lythgoe | [[Nigel Lythgoe]] is co-creator of the ''So You Think You Can Dance'' franchise and has been executive producer of the American and British productions for their entire runs. He also served as a permanent judge for the first sixteen seasons of the American production as well as the entire run of the British production.]] 
In season 1, each week of the competition featured a single episode, with contestants' eliminations pre-recorded the week they occurred and then broadcast at the beginning of the next week's episode. In seasons 2 to 8, the show's weekly format was split between two episodes, a performance episode, as described above, and a results show which revealed the outcome of the at-home-viewer voting following the performance show of the same week. More recent seasons have returned to a one-show-per-week format, but with each week's episode typically reflecting the results of voting for the previous week's performances, with these results revealed at the end of the following week's performances. Depending on the stage of the competition, each week may feature eliminations that are based entirely on an at-home viewer vote, or the vote may simply create a group of bottom contestants from which the show's judges will select the final eliminations. Voting has also varied by season (and often within seasons) regarding whether the voter selected individuals or couples. Following the announcement of their elimination, contestants are typically given a brief send-off via a video montage. Each competitive episode ends with a quick recap of the night's routines accompanied by voting prompts. Episodes typically last around two hours, commercials included. There has also been variability in how long couples are kept together and how the at-home-viewer votes are balanced against judge decisions, though ultimately at some point in every season, the judges give up their power to save contestants, and eliminations are determined exclusively by viewer votes. The total number of hours shown in a given week during the performance phase of the competition has varied from two to four hours.

The finale episode is often the most elaborately produced show of a season and features the last performances of the contestants, encore performances of many of the season's most acclaimed routines, guest dancers (including returning past season contestants and cast members from other international versions of the franchise), musical performances, and multiple video packets chronicling the course of the season's events, all culminating in the announcement of the winner of the competition. Most seasons have featured a single winner, while seasons 9 and 10 featured both male and female winners. Following the closure of the season, the Top Ten contestants often go on tour for several months, performing hit routines from the season among other performances.

===Judges===
A typical season of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' is presided over by a panel of 2 to 4 permanent judges, supplemented by occasional guest judges, with the panel sometimes ballooning up to twice or more its normal size for callback episodes or season finales. Executive producer and co-creator of the show Nigel Lythgoe was the only judge to have sat as a permanent member of the panel across all seasons except Season 17, although ballroom specialist [[Mary Murphy (choreographer)|Mary Murphy]] has also sat as a permanent member of the panel for the majority of seasons; Lythgoe was set to return as a judge on the show's upcoming eighteenth season, but left the show in January 2024. Other permanent judges have included film director and choreographer [[Adam Shankman]], contemporary choreographer [[Mia Michaels]], pop music and dance icon [[Paula Abdul]], noted youth dancer [[Maddie Ziegler]], actress and singer [[Vanessa Hudgens]], music and dance artist [[Jason Derulo]], choreographer and TV personality [[Laurieann Gibson]], actress, dancer and singer [[JoJo Siwa]], actor and singer [[Matthew Morrison]] and successful show alumni [[Stephen "tWitch" Boss]] and [[Dominic Sandoval|Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval]].

Many earlier seasons frequently featured guest judges in occasional episodes, although this practice has become increasingly rare. These guest judge positions have typically been filled by choreographers who regularly work on the show (who in rare cases may also be former contestants themselves) as well as by iconic names from the entertainment industry. Guest judges for the show have included: [[Debbie Allen]], [[Christina Applegate]], [[Robin Antin]], [[Toni Basil]], [[Cicely Bradley]], [[Kristin Chenoweth]], [[Misty Copeland]], [[Alex Da Silva (dancer)|Alex Da Silva]], [[Ellen DeGeneres]], [[Tyce Diorio]], [[Joey Dowling]], [[Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo]], [[Carmen Electra]], [[Brian Friedman]], [[Jean-Marc Généreux]], [[Jason Gilkison]], [[Neil Patrick Harris]], [[Hi-Hat (choreographer)|Hi-Hat]], [[Katie Holmes]], [[Dan Karaty]], [[Lady Gaga]], [[Carly Rae Jepsen]], [[Lil' C]], [[Rob Marshall]], [[Mandy Moore]], [[Megan Mullally]], [[Kenny Ortega]], [[Toni Redpath]], [[Debbie Reynolds]], [[Wade Robson]], [[Doriana Sanchez]], [[Shane Sparks]], [[Sonya Tayeh]], Olisa Thompson, [[Stacey Tookey]], [[Jesse Tyler Ferguson]] and [[Travis Wall]].

===Overview of format and presentation by season===
{| class="wikitable border-collapse:collapse;" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! scope="col" style="width:75px;"| Season
! scope="col" style="width:150px;"| Dates
! scope="col" style="width:140px;"| Host
! scope="col" style="width:275px;"| Permanent judges
! scope="col" style="width:80px;"| Separate results show?
! scope="col" style="width:100px;"| Contestant showcase episode?{{efn|name="Dancer showcase"}}
! scope="col" style="width:120px;"| Number of contestants in first live show
! scope="col" style="width:145px;"| Number of contestants eliminated per week 
! scope="col" style="width:135px;"| Number of contestants remaining in finale
! scope="col" style="width:80px;"| Number of winners
! scope="col" style="width:100px;"| All-Stars included <br />in format?
! scope="col" style="width:110px;"| Point at which judge eliminations end
! scope="col" style="width:150px;"| Voting for individual contestants starting with
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 1|1]]
| Summer 2005 <br /> (July–October)
| [[Lauren Sánchez]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Nigel Lythgoe]]
| No
| No
| 16
| 2
| 4
| 1
| No
| Top 8 
| Top 8
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 2|2]]
| Summer 2006 <br /> (May–August)
| rowspan=17 | [[Cat Deeley]]
| Yes
| No
| 20
| 2
| 4
| 1
| No
| Top 10
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 3|3]]
| Summer 2007 <br /> (May–August)
| rowspan=3 | Nigel Lythgoe <br /> [[Mary Murphy (choreographer)|Mary Murphy]]
| Yes
| No
| 20
| 2
| 4
| 1
| No
| Top 10
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 4|4]]
| Summer 2008 <br /> (May–August)
| Yes
| No
| 20
| 2
| 4
| 1
| No
| Top 10
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 5|5]]
| Summer 2009 <br /> (May–August)
| Yes
| No
| 20
| 2
| 4
| 1
| No
| Top 10
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 6|6]]
| Fall 2009 <br /> (September–December)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Mary Murphy <br /> [[Adam Shankman]]
| Yes
| Yes
| 20
| 2
| 6
| 1
| No
| Top 10
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 7|7]]
| Summer 2010 <br /> (May–August)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Adam Shankman <br /> [[Mia Michaels]]
| Yes
| Yes
| 11
| 1{{efn|name="Elimination 1"}}
| 3
| 1
| Yes
| Top 4
| Top 11
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 8|8]]
| Summer 2011 <br /> (May–August)
| rowspan=4 | Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Mary Murphy
| Yes
| Yes{{efn|name="Dancer showcase reveal"}} 
| 20
| 2{{efn|name="Elimination 1"}}
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 6
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 9|9]]
| Summer 2012 <br /> (May–September)
| No
| Yes{{efn|name="Dancer showcase reveal"}}
| 20
| 2{{efn|name="Elimination 1"}}
| 4
| 2
| Yes
| Top 6
| Top 20
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 10|10]]
| Summer 2013 <br /> (May–September)
| No
| Yes{{efn|name="Dancer showcase reveal"}}
| 20
| 2
| 4
| 2
| Yes
| Top 6
| Top 20
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 11|11]]
| Summer 2014 <br /> (May–September)
| No
| Yes
| 20
| 2
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 10
| Top 20
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 12|12]]
| Summer 2015 <br /> (June–September)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> [[Paula Abdul]] <br /> [[Jason Derulo]]
| No
| Yes
| 20
| 2{{efn|name="Elimination 2"}}
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 14
| Top 20
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation (American TV series)|13]]{{efn|name="Season 13"}}
| Summer 2016 <br /> (May–September)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Paula Abdul <br /> Jason Derulo <br /> [[Maddie Ziegler]]
| No
| Yes
| 10
| 1{{efn|name="Elimination 3"}}
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 8
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 14|14]]
| Summer 2017 <br /> (June–September)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Mary Murphy <br /> [[Vanessa Hudgens]] 
| No
| No
| 10
| 1
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 6
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 15|15]]
| Summer 2018 <br /> (June–September)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Mary Murphy <br /> Vanessa Hudgens <br /> [[Stephen "tWitch" Boss]]
| No
| No
| 10
| 2
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 8
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 16|16]]
| Summer 2019 <br /> (June–September)
| Nigel Lythgoe <br /> Mary Murphy <br /> [[Laurieann Gibson]] <br /> [[Dominic Sandoval|Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval]]
| No
| No
| 10
| 2
| 4
| 1
| Yes
| Top 8
| Top 10
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 17|17]]
| Summer 2022 <BR /> (May–August)
| Stephen "tWitch" Boss <br /> [[JoJo Siwa]] <br /> [[Matthew Morrison]] <br /> [[Leah Remini]]
| No
| No
| 12
| 2{{efn|name="Elimination 4"}}
| 2
| 1
| Yes
| Top 6
| Top 12{{efn|name="Elimination 5"}}
|-
| style="background:#A3D1E7;"|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 18|18]]
| Spring 2024 <BR /> (March–May)
| [[Allison Holker]] <br /> JoJo Siwa <br /> [[Maksim Chmerkovskiy]]
| No
| No
| 10
| 2
| 3
| 1
| No
| Top 3
| Top 10
|}

==Dance styles and choreographers==
Throughout its eighteen seasons, ''So You Think You Can Dance'' has featured dozens of distinct dance styles in its choreographed routines. Most of these styles fall into four categories that are regularly showcased and can be found in almost every performance episode: western contemporary/classical styles, ballroom styles, hip-hop/street styles as well as Jazz and its related styles. Various other forms of dance that do not especially fall into these broad categories are seen as well, but not as regularly. The following styles have all been seen in a choreographed duet or group routine; styles featured only in auditions or solos are not listed.

===Classical styles===
Routines from the classically derived style of [[contemporary dance|contemporary]] dance are the most common dances seen on the show, being seen in every performance episode of the series (and typically at least twice per episode). While contemporary, [[lyrical dance|lyrical]], and [[modern dance|modern]] dance are typically considered three separate (if overlapping) styles of dance, the practice on ''So You Think You Can Dance'' has been to refer to all routines in this area as "contemporary", except in the first season where the label "lyrical" was used for the same purpose. Ballet routines occur much more rarely, at a rate of one or two per season, since their introduction in the fourth season.

{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;"
|-
! scope="column"  style="background:#ccc; width:325px;"| Genre
! ! scope="column" style="background:#ccc;"| Styles
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Western Classical styles
|-
| | [[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]], [[lyrical dance|Lyrical]], [[modern dance|Modern]], [[Ballet]]/[[Pas de Deux]]
|-
! scope="row" colspan=2 style="background:#ECECEC;" | Choreographers
|-
| colspan="2" | Dee Caspary, Tessandra Chavez, Sean Cheesman, Thordal Christensen, [[Tyce Diorio]], Joey Dowling, Talia Favia, Justin Giles, [[Mandy Moore (choreographer)|Mandy Moore]], [[Mia Michaels]], Lindsay Nelko, [[Dwight Rhoden]], [[Desmond Richardson]], Jaci Royal, [[Garry Stewart]], [[Sonya Tayeh]], [[Stacey Tookey]], [[Travis Wall]], Tovaris Wilson, Keith Young
|}

===Street and club styles===
Hip-hop routines are also present in every performance episode. While these routines frequently feature elements from many different subgenres of hip-hop ([[locking (dance)|locking]] and [[popping]], for example) and various "street" styles (such as ''[[Breakdancing|breaking]]),'' they are typically all labeled under the umbrella term of ''hip-hop.'' An exception is the now frequently featured ''[[lyrical hip-hop]]'', which is unique amongst all styles on ''SYTYCD'' in that it is the only one that is held to have become a known distinct style at least in part as a result of the show; the style is widely attributed to regular show choreographers [[Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo]] and the term itself to judge [[Adam Shankman]]. These two broad categories are occasionally supplemented by routines that are labeled as [[krump]], breakdancing, [[waacking]], and [[Stepping (African-American)|stepping]].

{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;"
|-
! scope="column"  style="background:#ccc; width:325px;"| Genre
! ! scope="column" style="background:#ccc;"| Styles
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Street and Contemporary Club Styles
|-
| | [[Hip-hop dance|Hip-hop]] (umbrella term for all [[Popping]], [[Locking (dance)|Locking]], and [[Hip hop new style|New Style/Commercial Hip-Hop]] styles), [[Hip-hop dance#Lyrical hip-hop|Lyrical Hip-hop]], [[Breakdance|Breaking]], [[Krump]], [[Stepping (African-American)|Stepping]], [[Waacking]], [[Vogue (dance)|Vogue]]
|-
! scope="row" colspan=2 style="background:#ECECEC;" | Choreographers
|-
| colspan=2 | Cicely Bradley, [[Luther Brown]], Tessandra Chavez, [[Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo]], [[Dan Karaty]], Marty Kudelka, [[Lil' C]], Keone and Mari Madrid, Chuck Maldonado, Todd Sams, Christopher Scott, [[Dave Scott (choreographer)|Dave Scott]], [[Shane Sparks]], Jamal Sims, Olisa Thompson, Dana Wilson, Pharside and Phoenix, Luam, Mark Kanemura
|}

=== Ballroom styles ===
Ballroom styles are also seen regularly in every performance episode. These routines may use the movement of traditional [[Ballroom dance#International Style|International Standard]] forms or lean toward [[Glossary of partner dance terms#American Style|American competitive styles]]. Other routines may use street or regional variants or may combine elements of different variations.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;"
|-
! scope="column"  style="background:#ccc; width:325px;"| Genre
! ! scope="column" style="background:#ccc;" | Styles
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Standard or Smooth Ballroom styles
|-
| [[Foxtrot (dance)|Foxtrot]], [[Ballroom tango|Tango]], [[Argentine Tango]], [[Quickstep]], [[Waltz]] (including [[Waltz|Smooth Waltz]], [[Slow Waltz]], [[Slow Waltz|American Slow Waltz]], and [[Viennese Waltz]] variants)
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Latin/Rhythm Ballroom styles
|-	
| [[Bolero]], [[Cha-cha-cha (dance)|Cha-Cha-Cha]], [[Jive (dance)|Jive]], [[Jive (dance)|American Jive]], [[Mambo (dance)|Mambo]], [[Pasodoble|Paso Doble]], [[Rhumba|Rumba]], [[Salsa (dance)|Salsa]], [[Salsa (dance)|Street Salsa]], [[Samba (ballroom)|Samba]], [[Samba|African Samba]]
|-
! scope="row" colspan=2 style="background:#ECECEC;" | Choreographers
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Mark Ballas]], Leonardo Barrionuevo, [[Sharna Burgess]], [[Dmitry Chaplin]], [[Valentin Chmerkovskiy]], [[Alex Da Silva (dancer)|Alex Da Silva]], [[Sasha Farber]], [[Anya Garnis]], [[Jean-Marc Généreux]], [[Jason Gilkison]], [[Hunter Johnson (choreographer)|Hunter Johnson]], [[Jenna Johnson (dancer)|Jenna Johnson]], [[Pasha Kovalev]], [[Melanie LaPatin]], Miriam Larici, [[Liz Lira]], [[Michael Mead]], [[Tony Meredith]], Tomas Mielnicki, [[Ron Montez]], France Mousseau, [[Mary Murphy (choreographer)|Mary Murphy]], Jonathan Platero, [[Oksana Platero]], [[Toni Redpath]], [[Jonathan Roberts (dancer)|Jonathan Roberts]], Elena Samodanova, Fabian Sanchez, [[Edward Simon (choreographer)|Edward Simon]], [[Emma Slater]], Heather Smith, J.T. Thomas, [[Louis Van Amstel]], Gustavo Vargas, Glenn Weiss
|}

===Jazz, Broadway, and musical theater styles===
Jazz is featured in nearly all performance episodes. While these routines are typically labeled simply "Jazz", the genre is notable as being one of the most fusional featured on the show and various style combinations and sub-categories have been referenced. Descended from Jazz but treated as a separate genre on ''SYTYCD'', "[[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]" is analogous to the label "[[musical theater]]" outside the U.S.

{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;"
|-
! scope="column"  style="background:#ccc; width:325px;"| Genre
! ! scope="column" style="background:#ccc;"| Styles
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Jazz Styles
|-
| | [[Jazz dance|Jazz]], Contemporary Jazz, Modern Jazz, Lyrical Jazz, African Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz, Pop-Jazz/Pop
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Broadway/musical theatre styles
|-
| [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], [[Burlesque]], [[Can-Can]], [[Tap dance|Tap]]
|-
! scope="row" colspan=2 style="background:#ECECEC;" | Choreographers
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Chloe Arnold]], Al Blackstone, [[Andy Blankenbuehler]], [[Warren Carlyle]], [[Sean Cheesman]], [[Tyce Diorio]], Joey Dowling, [[Brian Friedman]], [[Laurie Ann Gibson]], [[Savion Glover]], [[Derick K. Grant]], Mark Kanemura, [[Charles Klapow]], Ray Leeper, Spencer Liff, [[Mandy Moore (choreographer)|Mandy Moore]], Anthony Morigerato, Amanda Robson, [[Wade Robson]], [[Sonya Tayeh]], [[Travis Wall]], Nick Young
|}

===American social styles===
These dance styles are featured less frequently than their ballroom relatives but have been seen intermittently since the first season.

{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;"
|-
! scope="column"  style="background:#ccc; width:325px;"| Genre
! ! scope="column" style="background:#ccc;"| Styles
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | American Social / Traditional Club Styles
|-
| [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]], [[Texas Two-Step|Country-Western Two-Step]], [[Disco]], [[Go-Go]], [[Hustle (dance)|Hustle]], [[Lindy Hop]], [[Rock and roll#Dance styles|Rock n' Roll]], [[Swing Dancing|Swing]], [[West Coast Swing]]
|-
! scope="row" colspan=2 style="background:#ECECEC;" | Choreographers
|-
| colspan=2 | Ronnie DeBenedetta, Carla Heiney, Brandi Tobais, [[Travis Payne]], Doriana Sanchez, [[Benji Schwimmer]], Kristen Sorci, Maria Torres, Nick Williams
|}

===Regional/traditional styles===
In addition to the broad categories above, many more styles that are less common in the U.S. are sometimes featured. Most of these are seen only once, but the [[Bollywood]] style has been featured several times per season since the fourth season.

{| class="wikitable" style="width:95%;"
|-
! scope="column"  style="background:#ccc; width:325px;"| Genre
! ! scope="column" style="background:#ccc;"| Styles
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=2 | Regional/Traditional Styles
|-
| [[Bollywood dance|Bollywood]], [[African dance|African]], [[Capoeira]], [[Flamenco]], [[Irish dance|Irish]], [[Kalinka (1860 song)|Kalinka]], Malevos, [['ote'a|Tahitian]], [[Tropak]]
|-
! scope="row" colspan=2 style="background:#ECECEC;" | Choreographers
|-
| colspan=2 | Lilia Babenko, Leonardo Barrionuevo, [[Nakul Dev Mahajan]], Miriam Larici, Tiana Liufau, Youri Nelzine.
|}

==Grand finalists==
{{Main|List of So You Think You Can Dance finalists}}

{| class="wikitable border-collapse:collapse;" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"| Season
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| Third place
! style="width:130px;"| Fourth place
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 1|1]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Nick Lazzarini]]<br /><small>(Contemporary Jazz)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|[[Melody Lacayanga]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Jamile McGee]]<br /><small>(Popping)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|[[Ashlé Dawson]]<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 2|2]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Benji Schwimmer]]<br /><small>(Swing/Latin)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Travis Wall]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Donyelle Jones<br /><small>(Jazz/Hip-Hop)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|[[Heidi Groskreutz]]<br /><small>(Ballroom)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 3|3]]
| style="background:pink;"|[[Sabra Johnson]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Danny Tidwell]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Neil Haskell]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|[[Lacey Schwimmer]]<br /><small>(Swing/Latin)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 4|4]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Joshua Allen (dancer)|Joshua Allen]]<br /><small>(Hip-Hop)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Stephen "tWitch" Boss]]<br /><small>(Hip-Hop)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Katee Shean<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Courtney Galiano<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 5|5]]
| style="background:pink;"|[[Jeanine Mason]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Brandon Bryant<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Evan Kasprzak<br /><small>(Broadway)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Kayla Radomski<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| Third place
! style="width:130px;"| Fourth place
! style="width:130px;"| Fifth place
! style="width:130px;"| Sixth place
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 6|6]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Russell Ferguson]]<br /><small>(Krump)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Jakob Karr<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|[[Kathryn McCormick]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Ellenore Scott<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Ashleigh Di Lello<br /><small>(Ballroom)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Ryan Di Lello<br /><small>(Ballroom)</small>
|-
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 7|7]]
| style="background:pink;"|[[Lauren Froderman]] <br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|[[Kent Boyd]] <br /><small>(Contemporary Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| Third place
! style="width:130px;"| Fourth place
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| 
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 8|8]]
| style="background:pink;"|[[Melanie Moore]]<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Sasha Mallory<br /><small>(African Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Marko Germar<br /><small>(Contemporary Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Tadd Gadduang<br /><small>(Breakdance)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"| 
! style="width:130px;"| Female winner
! style="width:130px;"| Male winner
! style="width:130px;"| Female runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| Male runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| 
! style="width:130px;"| 
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 9|9]]
| style="background:pink;"| Eliana Girard<br /><small>(Ballet)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Chehon Wespi-Tschopp<br /><small>(Ballet)</small>
| style="background:pink;"| Tiffany Maher<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer<br /><small>(Popping/Animation)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 10|10]]
| style="background:pink;"| Amy Yakima<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Du-Shaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall<br /><small>(Hip-Hop)</small>
| style="background:pink;"| Jasmine Harper<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Aaron Turner<br /><small>(Tap)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"| 
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| Third place
! style="width:130px;"| Fourth place
! style="width:130px;"| 
! style="width:130px;"| 
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 11|11]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Ricky Ubeda<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"| Valerie Rockey<br /><small>(Tap)</small>
| style="background:pink;"| Jessica Richens<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Zack Everhart<br /><small>(Tap)</small> 
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
! style="width:40px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 12|12]]
| style="background:pink;"| Gaby Diaz<br /><small>(Tap)</small>
| style="background:pink;"| Jaja Vaňková<br /><small>(Animation/Krump)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! style="width:40px;"| 
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"| Third place
! style="width:130px;"| Fourth place
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation (American TV series)|13]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| Leon "Kida" Burns<br /><small>(Hip-Hop)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"| J.T. Church<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|[[Tate McRae]]<br /><small>(Contemporary/Ballet)</small>
| style="background:pink;"| Emma Hellenkamp<br /><small>(Tap)</small> 
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 14|14]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Lex Ishimoto<br /><small>(Contemporary Hip-Hop)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Koine Iwasaki<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Taylor Sieve<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Kiki Nyemchek<br /><small>(Latin Ballroom)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 15|15]]
| style="background:pink;"|Hannahlei Cabanilla<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Jensen Arnold<br /><small>(Latin ballroom)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Genessy Castillo <br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Slavik Pustovoytov <br /><small>(Hip Hop/Animation)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 16|16]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Bailey Muñoz<br /><small>(Breaking)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Mariah Russell<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Gino Cosculluela<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Sophie Pittman<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
! style="width:40px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 17|17]]
| style="background:pink;"|Alexis Warr<br /><small>(Latin Ballroom)</small>
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Keaton Kermode<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
! style="width:40px;"|
! style="width:130px;"| Winner
! style="width:130px;"| Runner-up
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
! style="width:130px;"|
|-
|[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 18|18]]
| style="background:#b2dffe;"|Anthony Curley<br /><small>(Contemporary)</small>
| style="background:pink;"|Dakayla Wilson<br /><small>(Jazz)</small>
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
| style="background:#999;"|
|-
|}

==Special shows==
On September 2, 2009, as a prelude to season 6, a special show aired featuring judge picks for the top 15 routines from the first five seasons. At the end of the show, show creator and judge [[Nigel Lythgoe]] presented his favorite performance, a [[Contemporary dance|contemporary]] piece choreographed by [[Tyce Diorio]] and performed by Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi.

In March 2014, Chinese television station [[China Central Television|CCTV]] broadcast a promotional episode in which notable all-star dancers from the U.S. and Chinese versions of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' competed directly against one another as teams. Titled ''Zhōngměi Wǔ Lín Guànjūn Duìkàngsài - Super Dancer Born Tonight'', the show was shot in [[Las Vegas]] but never aired on U.S. television.

==Ratings==
''So You Think You Can Dance'' premiered with over 10 million viewers in 2005. For season 1, it was the No. 1 summer show on television. However, when [[NBC]]'s ''[[America's Got Talent]]'' premiered in the summer of 2006, it took the title of "#1 summer show" and, over the following few years, broadened its lead. In the summer of 2009, ''SYTYCD'' premiered strong with a 3.4 rating in its target demographic, although with the start of ''America's Got Talent'' roughly a month later in the same timeslot, ''Dance'' fell to No. 4 on the ratings board. It continued to lose viewers throughout the summer of 2009 and ended up with an average of approximately 8 million viewers. Fox then moved ''SYTYCD'' to its fall 2009 schedule where its ratings continued to decline; hitting an all-time series low of 4.6 million viewers for a "special" episode hosted by Nigel Lythgoe on September 2, 2009. The move to the fall was short-lived. After dropping to an average of 6 million viewers, Fox moved ''SYTYCD'' back to the summer of 2010. With Mia Michaels replacing Mary Murphy and former contestants termed as "All-Stars" being used as partners, the ratings for ''Dance'' continued to slide to all-time series lows; dropping to just 5.6 million viewers on July 15, 2010. For season 7, ''So You Think You Can Dance'' averaged just over 5 million viewers. After season 7, Mia Michaels was replaced on the judge's panel by returning personality Mary Murphy. The change appeared to have little effect on the ratings, and the show continued to average just over five million viewers per episode in 2011's season 8. Season 9 saw a slight uptick in ratings early on, with each of the season's first five episodes garnering between six and seven million viewers, but the rise was short-lived and the show's ratings hit a new low of 4.16 million viewers on August 29, 2012. Season 10 maintained similar numbers, averaging about 4 million viewers per episode in 2013, with a 4.3 million viewership for the last episode of the season, an all-time series low for a finale.<ref name="season10ratings">{{Cite web |last=Yeo |first=Debra |date=April 29, 2014 |title=Nigel Lythgoe asks Twitter followers to save ''So You Think You Can Dance'' |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2014/04/29/nigel_lythgoe_asks_twitter_followers_to_save_so_you_think_you_can_dance.html |access-date=May 1, 2014 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |archive-date=May 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502004338/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2014/04/29/nigel_lythgoe_asks_twitter_followers_to_save_so_you_think_you_can_dance.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 2014, Lythgoe appealed to fans on Twitter to share information about the show ahead of the 11th season's May premiere in an attempt to augment the show's ratings for the upcoming season and bolster its chances of renewal thereafter.<ref name="season10ratings" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Laurel |date=April 29, 2014 |title=Is 'So You Think You Can Dance' in trouble? Nigel Lythgoe tweets for support |url=http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/is_so_you_think_you_can_dance_in_trouble_nigel_lythgoe_tweets_for_support-2014-04 |access-date=May 1, 2014 |website=[[Zap2it]] |archive-date=May 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502002453/http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/is_so_you_think_you_can_dance_in_trouble_nigel_lythgoe_tweets_for_support-2014-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The show was renewed for a twelfth season, but ratings continued to decline, with an average of around 3.5 million viewers per show. FOX renewed the show for a thirteenth season but with a drastically reworked format focused on child dancers. Ratings declined further for the new version, with only five episodes breaking the 3 million viewer mark; the finale saw a series-low viewership of just 2.27 million viewers.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

In 2016, a ''[[New York Times]]'' study of the 50 TV shows with the most [[Facebook Like]]s found that "in general", ''Dance'' "is more popular in cities, though it hits peak popularity in Utah".<ref name="katz20161227">{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=Josh |date=December 27, 2016 |title='Duck Dynasty' vs. 'Modern Family': 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 28, 2017 |archive-date=March 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170329083111/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html?_r=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! rowspan="2" | Season
! rowspan="2" | Timeslot ([[Eastern Time Zone (North America)|ET]])
! colspan="2" | First aired
! colspan="2" | Last aired
! rowspan="2" | TV season
|-
! Date
! Viewers<br />(in millions)
! Date
! Viewers<br />(in millions)
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 1|1]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=So You Think You Can Dance - Episode List - TV Tango |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=1&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=27&commit.y=22 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021031/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=1&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=27&commit.y=22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Wednesday 8:00&nbsp;pm 
| July 20, 2005
| 10.30
| October 5, 2005
| 8.20
| [[2004–05 United States network television schedule|2005]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 2|2]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=2&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=15&commit.y=22 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521104215/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=2&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=15&commit.y=22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rowspan="4" | Wednesday 8:00&nbsp;pm<br />Thursday 9:00 pm
| May 25, 2006
| 10.70
| August 16, 2006
| 10.70
| [[2005–06 United States network television schedule|2006]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 3|3]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=3&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=13&commit.y=19 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521020959/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=3&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=13&commit.y=19 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| May 24, 2007
| 9.50
| August 16, 2007
| 9.60
| [[2006–07 United States network television schedule|2007]]
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| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 4|4]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=4&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=26&commit.y=18 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021540/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=4&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=26&commit.y=18 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| May 22, 2008
| 6.70
| August 7, 2008
| 9.70
| [[2007–08 United States network television schedule|2008]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 5|5]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=5&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=7&commit.y=13 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021445/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=5&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=7&commit.y=13 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| May 21, 2009
| 8.80
| August 6, 2009
| 9.60
| [[2008–09 United States network television schedule|2009]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 6|6]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=6&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=14&commit.y=5 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021544/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=6&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=14&commit.y=5 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Tuesday 8:00&nbsp;pm<br />Wednesday 8:00 pm 
| September 9, 2009
| 6.60
| December 16, 2009
| 7.10
| [[2009–10 United States network television schedule|2009-10]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 7|7]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=7&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=33&commit.y=12 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521104126/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=7&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=33&commit.y=12 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Wednesday 8:00&nbsp;pm<br />Thursday 9:00 pm
| May 27, 2010
| 8.20
| August 12, 2010
| 6.70
| [[2009–10 United States network television schedule|2010]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 8|8]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode List: So You Think You Can Dance |url=http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=8&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=10&commit.y=21 |access-date=May 20, 2018 |website=TV Tango |archive-date=May 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521104351/http://www.tvtango.com/series/so_you_think_you_can_dance/episodes?filters%5Bday%5D=&filters%5Bseason%5D=8&filters%5Bbroadcast%5D=No&filters%5Bmedia%5D=&commit.x=10&commit.y=21 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Wednesday 8:00&nbsp;pm<br />Thursday 8:00 pm
| May 26, 2011
| 9.50
| August 11, 2011
| 6.10
| [[2010–11 United States network television schedule|2011]]
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| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 9|9]]
| Wednesday 8:00&nbsp;pm
| May 24, 2012
| 6.26<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kondolojy |first=Amanda |date=May 25, 2012 |title=Thursday Final Ratings: No Adjustments for 'So You Think You Can Dance', 'Duets' or 'Rookie Blue' |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/25/thursday-final-ratings-no-adjustments-for-so-you-think-you-can-dance-duets-or-rookie-blue/135771/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528073348/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/25/thursday-final-ratings-no-adjustments-for-so-you-think-you-can-dance-duets-or-rookie-blue/135771/ |archive-date=May 28, 2012 |access-date=May 25, 2012 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 18, 2012
| 4.71<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bibel |first=Sara |date=September 19, 2012 |title=Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Voice' and 'Go On' Adjusted Up |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/19/tuesday-final-ratings-the-voice-and-go-on-adjusted-up/149231/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921215820/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/19/tuesday-final-ratings-the-voice-and-go-on-adjusted-up/149231/ |archive-date=September 21, 2012 |access-date=September 19, 2012 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2011–12 United States network television schedule|2012]]
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| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 10|10]]
| Tuesday 8:00&nbsp;pm
| May 14, 2013
| 5.12<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kondolojy |first=Amanda |date=May 15, 2013 |title=Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Voice' & 'NCIS' Adjusted Up; No Adjustment for 'Grimm' or 'New Girl{{'-}} |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/05/15/tuesday-final-ratings-the-voice-no-adjustment-for-grimm-or-new-girl/182870/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607112635/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/05/15/tuesday-final-ratings-the-voice-no-adjustment-for-grimm-or-new-girl/182870/ |archive-date=June 7, 2013 |access-date=June 8, 2014 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 10, 2013
| 4.37<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kondolojy |first=Amanda |date=September 11, 2013 |title=Tuesday Final Ratings: Final Ratings for 'So You Think You Can Dance' Finale and 'America's Got Talent{{'-}} |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/09/11/tuesday-final-ratings-final-ratings-for-so-you-think-you-can-dance-finale-and-americas-got-talent/202093/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914032451/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/09/11/tuesday-final-ratings-final-ratings-for-so-you-think-you-can-dance-finale-and-americas-got-talent/202093/ |archive-date=September 14, 2013 |access-date=June 8, 2014 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2012–13 United States network television schedule|2013]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 11|11]]
| Wednesday 8:00&nbsp;pm
| May 28, 2014
| 5.33<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bibel |first=Sara |date=May 29, 2014 |title=Wednesday Final Ratings: No Adjustments to 'The 100' or 'So You Think You Can Dance{{'-}} |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/05/29/wednesday-final-ratings-no-adjustments-to-the-100-or-so-you-think-you-can-dance/268566/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530062917/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/05/29/wednesday-final-ratings-no-adjustments-to-the-100-or-so-you-think-you-can-dance/268566/ |archive-date=May 30, 2014 |access-date=June 8, 2014 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 3, 2014
| 4.12<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bibel |first=Sara |date=September 4, 2014 |title=Wednesday Final Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' & 'Big Brother' Adjusted Up |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/09/04/wednesday-final-ratings-americas-got-talent-big-brother-adjusted-up/299516/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905080131/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/09/04/wednesday-final-ratings-americas-got-talent-big-brother-adjusted-up/299516/ |archive-date=September 5, 2014 |access-date=September 4, 2014 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]] |publisher=[[Zap2it]]}}</ref>
| [[2013–14 United States network television schedule|2014]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 12|12]]
| rowspan="4" | Monday 8:00&nbsp;pm
| June 1, 2015
| 4.03<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kondolojy |first=Amanda |date=June 2, 2015 |title=Monday Final Ratings: 'So You Think You Can Dance' Adjusted Up; 'The Island' Adjusted Down |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/06/02/monday-final-ratings-so-you-think-you-can-dance-adjusted-up-the-island-adjusted-down/411233/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603131407/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/06/02/monday-final-ratings-so-you-think-you-can-dance-adjusted-up-the-island-adjusted-down/411233/ |archive-date=June 3, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 14, 2015
| 2.44<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dixon |first=Dani |date=September 16, 2015 |title=Monday Final Ratings: 'Dancing With the Stars' Down, 'American Ninja Warrior' & 'DanceBattle America' Adjusted Up |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/09/15/monday-final-ratings-dancing-with-the-stars-down-american-ninja-warrior-dancebattle-america-adjusted-up/467094/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918025825/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/09/15/monday-final-ratings-dancing-with-the-stars-down-american-ninja-warrior-dancebattle-america-adjusted-up/467094/ |archive-date=September 18, 2015 |access-date=September 17, 2015 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2014–15 United States network television schedule|2015]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation (American TV series)|13]]
| May 30, 2016
| 3.75<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=June 1, 2016 |title=Monday final ratings: Stanley Cup Finals and 'Memorial Day' adjust up |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/06/01/monday-final-ratings-may-30-2016/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602083746/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/06/01/monday-final-ratings-may-30-2016/ |archive-date=June 2, 2016 |access-date=June 1, 2016 |publisher=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 12, 2016
| 2.27<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=September 13, 2016 |title=Monday Final Ratings: 'Dancing With the Stars' premiere matches Fall 2015 |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/09/13/monday-final-ratings-sept-12-2016/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914152219/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/09/13/monday-final-ratings-sept-12-2016/ |archive-date=September 14, 2016 |access-date=September 13, 2016 |publisher=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2015–16 United States network television schedule|2016]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 14|14]]
| June 12, 2017
| 3.56<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=June 13, 2017 |title=NBA Finals end with a bang: Monday final ratings |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-june-12-2017/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613222024/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-june-12-2017/ |archive-date=June 13, 2017 |access-date=May 13, 2018 |publisher=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 25, 2017
| 1.91<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=September 26, 2017 |title='Big Bang' and 'Young Sheldon' adjust up, 'Good Doctor,' 'DWTS,' 'The Brave,' 'Me, Myself & I' down: Monday final ratings |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-sept-25-2017/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927111840/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-sept-25-2017/ |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |access-date=May 13, 2018 |publisher=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2016–17 United States network television schedule|2017]] 
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 15|15]]
| June 6, 2018
| 3.25<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=June 5, 2018 |title=Stanley Cup Finals Game 4 adjusts up: Monday final ratings |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-june-4-2018/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180608052425/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-june-4-2018/ |archive-date=June 8, 2018 |access-date=June 5, 2018 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 10, 2018
| 2.60<ref>{{Cite web |last=Welch |first=Alex |date=September 11, 2018 |title='Bachelor in Paradise' adjusts down: Monday final ratings |url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-sept-10-2018/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911231032/https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-sept-10-2018/ |archive-date=September 11, 2018 |access-date=September 11, 2018 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2017–18 United States network television schedule|2018]]
|- 
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 16|16]]
| Monday 9:00&nbsp;pm
| June 3, 2019
| 2.70<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rejent |first=Joseph |date=June 4, 2019 |title=The Stanley Cup Finals adjust up: Monday final ratings |url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-june-3-2019/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604212631/https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-june-3-2019/ |archive-date=June 4, 2019 |access-date=June 4, 2019 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| September 16, 2019
| 1.93<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rejent |first=Joseph |date=September 17, 2019 |title='American Ninja Warrior' adjusts down: Monday final ratings |url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-september-16-2019/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925012628/https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-september-16-2019/ |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |access-date=September 17, 2019 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]]}}</ref>
| [[2018–19 United States network television schedule|2019]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 17|17]]
| Wednesday 9:00&nbsp;pm
| May 18, 2022
| 2.07<ref>{{Cite web |last=[[Mitch Metcalf]] |date=May 19, 2022 |title=Wednesday 5.18.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals |url=https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-wednesday-5-18-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html |access-date=May 19, 2022 |website=[[Showbuzz Daily]] |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521053234/https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-wednesday-5-18-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| August 10, 2022
| 1.46<ref>{{Cite web |last=[[Mitch Metcalf]] |date=August 11, 2022 |title=Wednesday 8.10.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals |url=https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-wednesday-8-10-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html |access-date=August 11, 2022 |website=[[Showbuzz Daily]] |archive-date=August 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811200647/https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-wednesday-8-10-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| [[2021–22 United States network television schedule|2022]]
|-
| [[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 18|18]]
| Monday 9:00&nbsp;pm
| March 4, 2024
| 1.04<ref>{{cite web|url=https://programminginsider.com/monday-ratings-soft-returns-for-masterchef-junior-and-so-you-think-you-can-dance-on-fox/|title=Monday Ratings: Soft Returns for ''MasterChef Junior'' and ''So You Think You Can Dance'' on Fox|work=Programming Insider|author=Douglas Pucci|date=March 5, 2024|access-date=March 5, 2024}}</ref>
| May 20, 2024
| 0.80<ref>{{cite web|url=https://programminginsider.com/monday-ratings-jeopardy-masters-on-abc-reaches-season-high-to-date-in-viewers-with-semifinal/|title=Monday Ratings: ''La Casa de Los Famosos'' Hits Series-High in Viewers with 4th Season Finale as Telemundo Tops All Broadcast Networks in 18-49|work=Programming Insider|author=Douglas Pucci|date=May 21, 2024|access-date=May 21, 2024}}</ref>
| [[2023–24 United States network television schedule|2024]]
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==Influence and international franchise==
Dance competition had been a part of American television for decades before the premiere of ''So You Think You Can Dance'', but usually in the form of all-around [[reality television#Reality competition or game shows|talent searches]] (such as ''[[Star Search]]'', ''[[Soul Train]]'', or ''[[Showtime at the Apollo]]''). However, a season-long ''[[American Idol]]''-like talent-search show with a sole focus on dance had never been broadcast on American network television. Producers and judges associated with the show have stated on numerous occasions, both within broadcasts of the show and in interviews, that the series was meant to rejuvenate the visibility and appreciation of dance as an art form in the U.S. and to give exposure to struggling dancers. Series judge Mary Murphy says, for example, "Of course you hope you can make a living at it, because you don't want to give up on something that you do, but the honest truth is most dancers have to carry one or two jobs and dance as much as they can on the side -- it's a very lucky dancer who gets a full scholarship."<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbNyuZCdbk|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/IrbNyuZCdbk|archive-date=2021-11-17|url-status=live|title=L.A. Music Examiner - ''Catching Up With Mary Murphy at the So You Think You Can Dance L.A. Auditions''|publisher=TVMusic Network|date=2012-03-07|access-date=2013-10-20}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Several dance-themed competition shows have been produced for American television since the premiere of ''So You Think You Can Dance'', including ''[[America's Best Dance Crew]]'', ''[[Superstars of Dance]]'', ''[[Live to Dance]]'', and ''[[World of Dance (TV series)|World of Dance]]''.

[[File:So You Think You Can Dance - map of global distribution of franchise.png|thumb|400px|right|Since the premiere of the American version in Summer 2005, localized adaptations of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' have been produced for 39 other countries.]]
In 2009, Lythgoe came together with fellow ''SYTYCD'' judge [[Adam Shankman]] as well as [[Katie Holmes]], [[Carrie Ann Inaba]], and others in the dance entertainment industry to launch ''The Dizzyfeet Foundation'', intending to provide scholarships and training to young dancers of limited means.<ref>{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Stewart |title=Holmes, Lythgoe team for Dizzy Feet |url=https://variety.com/2009/scene/markets-festivals/holmes-lythgoe-team-for-dizzy-feet-1118005636/ |work=Variety |date=July 2, 2009 |access-date=2009-07-09 |archive-date=July 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724222627/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005636.html?categoryid=1237&cs=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The foundation has been referenced sporadically on the show since. In 2010, Lythgoe, with the assistance of other ''SYTYCD'' personalities and long-time healthy lifestyles proponent Congresswoman [[Eleanor Holmes Norton]], was successful in getting another of his dance-oriented concepts realized—an official [[National Dance Day]], now held annually on the last Saturday of July, to promote fitness through movement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.norton.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1757&Itemid=88 |title=Norton Introduces Resolution to Launch Annual National Dance Day (7/13/2010) |publisher=Norton.house.gov |access-date=2013-10-20 |archive-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303111541/http://www.norton.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1757&Itemid=88 |url-status=live }}</ref> This national dance day has been celebrated annually by the show since.<ref>[http://dance.blogs.fox.com/2011/06/16/second-annual-national-dance-day-is-july-30/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627043904/http://dance.blogs.fox.com/2011/06/16/second-annual-national-dance-day-is-july-30/|date=June 27, 2011}}</ref>

Before the end of 2005, the year that the series first premiered, its format had already been licensed for the first of several foreign adaptations. To date, the resulting [[So You Think You Can Dance|''So You Think You Can Dance'' franchise]] has produced 28 shows representing 39 countries and comprising more than 90 individual seasons. These adaptations have aired in [[Parir te Karogh Es|Armenia]], [[So You Think You Can Dance Australia|Australia]], [[So You Think You Can Dance (Belgium and The Netherlands)|Belgium]], [[So You Think You Can Dance Canada|Canada]], China, [[Kan Du Danse|Denmark]], Egypt, [[Dance Suomi|Finland]], [[You Can Dance (France)|France]], Georgia, [[You Can Dance (Germany)|Germany]], [[So You Think You Can Dance (Greece)|Greece]], Iraq, [[So You Think You Can Dance (India)|India]], [[Nolad Lirkod|Israel]], Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, [[Tu gali šokti|Lithuania]], [[So You Think You Can Dance (Malaysia)|Malaysia]], Morocco, [[So You Think You Can Dance (Belgium and The Netherlands)|the Netherlands]], [[So You Think You Can Dance (New Zealand)|New Zealand]], [[Dansefeber|Norway]], Palestinian Territories, [[So You Think You Can Dance (Poland)|Poland]], [[Achas que Sabes Dançar?|Portugal]], Qatar, Russia, [[So You Think You Can Dance (South Africa)|South Africa]], Sudan, [[So You Think You Can Dance Scandinavia|Sweden]], Syria, Tunisia, [[Dans Eder misin?|Turkey]], [[Everybody Dance (TV series)|Ukraine]], United Arab Emirates, [[So You Think You Can Dance (UK)|the United Kingdom]] and [[Thử thách cùng bước nhảy|Vietnam]].

==Awards and nominations==
As of 2017, nine former ''SYTYCD'' contestants have been nominated for the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography]]. Five were nominated for their work on ''[[Dancing with the Stars]]'': [[Chelsie Hightower]] in 2010, [[Travis Wall]] and [[Nick Lazzarini]] in 2012 (with Teddy Forance), [[Allison Holker]] in 2013 (with [[Derek Hough]]) and [[Witney Carson]] in 2015. [[Hokuto Konishi]], Ryan “Ryanimay” Conferido, and [[Dominic Sandoval|Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval]] were nominated in 2016 as part of the B-boy troupe [[Quest Crew]] for their work on [[America's Best Dance Crew]]. [[Dmitry Chaplin]] in 2009 and [[Travis Wall]] in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 were nominated for their work on ''SYTYCD'' itself. The only former contestants to have won the Choreography Emmy are Konishi, Conferido, and Sandoval in 2016 and Wall in 2015 and 2017.<ref>http://www.emmys.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212044411/http://www.emmys.com/ |date=February 12, 2012 }};  https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/arts/television/2013-emmy-award-nominees.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102235651/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/arts/television/2013-emmy-award-nominees.html |date=November 2, 2017 }}; https://www.yahoo.com/music/quest-crew-discuss-emotional-emmy-winning-americas-best-dance-crew-routine-075116614.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025132419/https://www.yahoo.com/music/quest-crew-discuss-emotional-emmy-winning-americas-best-dance-crew-routine-075116614.html |date=October 25, 2017 }}</ref>

===Emmy Awards===
{| class="wikitable collapsible" cellpadding="1" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;"
! colspan=6 | Emmy Awards and nominations
|-
! style="width:50px;"| Year
!Result
!style="width:410px;"|Category
!Recipient(s)/<br />Choreographer(s)
!Style
!Music
|-
|rowspan=2| [[59th Primetime Emmy Awards|2007]]
|rowspan=2 {{won}}{{efn|name="2007 Outstanding Choreography award"}}
|rowspan=2| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography|Outstanding Choreography]]
|[[Wade Robson]]
|[[Jazz dance|Pop-Jazz]]
|"Ramalama (Bang Bang)"—[[Róisín Murphy]]
|-
|[[Mia Michaels]]
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|"[[Calling You]]"—[[Celine Dion]]
|-
|rowspan=4| [[60th Primetime Emmy Awards|2008]]
|{{won}}
|rowspan=3|Outstanding Choreography
|Wade Robson
|[[Jazz dance|Jazz]]
|Hummingbird and Flower/"The Chairman's Waltz" from ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (soundtrack)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]''
|-
|{{nom}}
|[[Mandy Moore (choreographer)|Mandy Moore]]
|Jazz
|Table/"[[Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]"—[[Eurythmics]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|[[Shane Sparks]]
|[[Hip hop dance|Hip-hop]]
|Transformers/"Fuego"—[[Pitbull (rapper)|Pitbull]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="3"|
|-
|rowspan=6| [[61st Primetime Emmy Awards|2009]]
|{{won}}
|rowspan=4|Outstanding Choreography
|[[Tyce Diorio]]
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|Adam and Eve/"Silence" from ''[[Unfaithful (2002 film)|Unfaithful]]''
|-
|{{nom}}
|[[Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo]]
|Hip-hop
|"[[Bleeding Love]]"—[[Leona Lewis]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Mia Michaels
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|"[[Mercy (Duffy song)|Mercy]]"—[[Duffy (singer)|Duffy]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|[[Dmitry Chaplin]]
|[[Argentine tango]]
|"A Los Amigos" from ''Forever Tango''
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="3" |
|-
|{{won}}
|Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or A Special
|Soyon An
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2"| 
|-
|rowspan="6"|[[62nd Primetime Emmy Awards|2010]]
|rowspan="3" {{won}}
|rowspan="4"|Outstanding Choreography
|rowspan="3"|[[Mia Michaels]]
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|"Koop Island Blues"—[[Koop (band)|Koop]] feat [[Ane Brun]]
|-
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|Addiction/"[[Gravity (Sara Bareilles song)|Gravity]]"—[[Sara Bareilles]]
|-
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|"One" from ''[[A Chorus Line]]''
|-
|{{nom}}
|[[Stacey Tookey]]
|[[Contemporary dance|Contemporary]]
|Fear/"Two Steps Away"—[[Patti LaBelle]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="3"|
|-
|{{won}}
|Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or A Special
|Soyon An<br />Graine O'Sullivan
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2"|
|-
|rowspan="18"|[[63rd Primetime Emmy Awards|2011]]
|rowspan="3" {{won}}
|rowspan="15"|Outstanding Choreography
|rowspan="3"|[[Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo]]
|Hip-Hop
|"Scars"—[[Basement Jaxx]] ft. [[Kelis]], [[Meleka]], and Chipmunk
|-
|Lyrical Hip-Hop
|"[[Fallin' (Alicia Keys song)|Fallin']]"—[[Alicia Keys]]
|-
|Hip-Hop
|"Outta Your Mind" (District 78 Mix)—[[Lil Jon]] and [[LMFAO (band)|LMFAO]]
|-
|rowspan="3" {{won}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Mia Michaels]]
|Contemporary
|Alice in Mia-Land/"[[Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic]]"—[[Sting (musician)|Sting]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"When We Dance"—[[Sting (musician)|Sting]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[This Bitter Earth]]/On the Nature of Twilight"—[[Max Richter]] and [[Dinah Washington]]
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|Mandy Moore
|Pop-Jazz
|"[[Oh Yeah (Yello song)|Oh Yeah]]"—[[Yello]]
|-
|[[Jazz Dance|Jazz]]
|"[[Boogie Shoes]]"—[[KC & the Sunshine Band]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"I Surrender"—Celine Dion
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Stacey Tookey]]
|Contemporary
|"[[Mad World]]" (Alternate Version)—[[Michael Andrews (musician)|Michael Andrews]] ft. [[Gary Jules]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"Sundrenched World" (Live Session)—[[Joshua Radin]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Heaven is a Place on Earth]]"—Katie Thompson
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Travis Wall]]
|Contemporary
|"Collide" (Acoustic Version)—[[Howie Day]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[How It Ends (DeVotchKa album)|How It Ends]]"—[[DeVotchKa]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Fix You]]"—[[Coldplay]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
|[[Cat Deeley]]
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|
|-
|{{won}}
|Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series
|Robert Barnhart<br />Pete Radice<br />Patrick Boozer<br />Matt Firestone
|-
|{{nom}}
| Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
| Producers
|-
|rowspan="11"|[[64th Primetime Emmy Awards|2012]]
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="8"|Outstanding Choreography
|rowspan="3"|[[Stacey Tookey]]
|Contemporary
|"In This Shirt"—[[The Irrepressibles]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Turning Tables]]"—[[Adele]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"Heart Asks Pleasure First"—[[Ahn Trio]]
|-
|rowspan="2" {{nom}}
|rowspan="2"|Christopher Scott
|Hip-hop
|"[[Misty Blue]]"—[[Dorothy Moore]]
|-
|Hip-hop/Contemporary
|"Velocity"—Nathan Lanier
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|Spencer Liff
|Broadway
|"[[Whatever Lola Wants]]"—[[Ella Fitzgerald]]
|-
|Broadway
|"Please Mr. Jailer"—[[Rachel Sweet]]
|-
|Broadway
|"(Where Do I Begin) Love Story (Away Team Remix)"—[[Shirley Bassey]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
|[[Cat Deeley]]
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|
|-
|{{won}}
|Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
|Robert Barnhart<br />Matt Firestone<br />Pete Radice<br />Patrick Boozer
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
| Producers
|-
|rowspan="14"|[[65th Primetime Emmy Awards|2013]]
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="11"|Outstanding Choreography
|rowspan="3"|[[Sonya Tayeh]]
|Contemporary
|"[[Possibly Maybe]]"—[[Björk]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"Turning Page"—[[Sleeping At Last]]
|-
|Jazz
|"Sail"—[[Awolnation]]
|-
|rowspan="2" {{nom}}
|rowspan="2"|[[Mandy Moore (choreographer)|Mandy Moore]]
|Contemporary
|"[[The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song)|The Power of Love]]"—[[Celine Dion]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses]]"—[[Charlotte Martin]]
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo]]
|Jazz/Hip-hop
|"The Circle of Life/Nants Ingonyama (District 78 Remix) from [[The Lion King]]"—[[Ella Fitzgerald]]
|-
|Jazz<ref>{{cite web |last=Camus |first=Renee |date=September 20, 2013 |title=Choreographing Couple Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo: Not Just Hip-Hop Anymore |url=http://www.lamag.com/laculture/culturefilesblog/2013/09/20/choreographing-couple-tabitha-and-napoleon-dumo-not-just-hip-hop-anymore |work=Los Angeles Magazine |access-date=September 22, 2013 |quote='That first piece we did was not hip-hop at all,' Napoleon says about Love Cats. 'Cat [Deeley, the host] introduced it as hip-hop. During dress rehearsal, we made it very clear that it's jazz-fusion.' |archive-date=September 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926183552/http://www.lamag.com/laculture/culturefilesblog/2013/09/20/choreographing-couple-tabitha-and-napoleon-dumo-not-just-hip-hop-anymore |url-status=live }}</ref>
|"The Lovecats"—[[The Cure]]
|-
|Jazz
|"The Beautiful People (Marilyn Manson song)|The Beautiful People (District 78 remix)"—[[Marilyn Manson]]
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Travis Wall]]
|Contemporary
|"Where the Light Gets In"—[[Sennen (band)|Sennen]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Without You (Badfinger song)#Harry Nilsson version|Without You]]"—[[Harry Nilsson]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Unchained Melody]]"—[[The Righteous Brothers]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
|[[Cat Deeley]]
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
|Robert Barnhart<br />Matt Firestone<br />Pete Radice<br />Patrick Boozer
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
| Producers
|-
|rowspan="15"|[[66th Primetime Emmy Awards|2014]]
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="12"|Outstanding Choreography
|rowspan="3"|[[Christopher Scott (choreographer)|Christopher Scott]]
|Hip-hop
|"[[Trigger (Original Mix)]]"—[[Kezwik ft. Mel Presson]]
|-
|Jazz
|"Sand"—Nathan Lanier ft. Karen Whipple
|-
|Contemporary
|"The Gravel Road" from The Village (Score from the Motion Picture)
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Mandy Moore (choreographer)|Mandy Moore]]
|Contemporary
|"[[I Can't Make You Love Me]]"—[[Mark Masri]]
|-
|Jazz
|"[[Feeling Good]]"—[[Jennifer Hudson]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Edge of Glory (Live from a Very Gaga Thanksgiving)]]"—[[Lady Gaga]]
|-
|rowspan="3" {{won}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo]]
|Hip-hop
|"Gold Rush"—[[Clinton Sparks]] ft. 2 Chainz, Macklemore, & D.A.
|-
|Hip-Hop
|"[[Run the World (Girls)]] (Nappytabs Remix)"—[[Beyoncé]]
|-
|Hip-Hop
|"Puttin' On the Ritz"—Herb Alpert ft. Lani Hall
|-
|rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Travis Wall]]
|Contemporary
|"Hangin' By a Thread"—[[Jann Arden]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"Medicine"—[[Daughter (band)|Daughter]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Wicked Game]] (Live at [[Kilkenny Arts Festival]], Ireland 2011)"—[[James Vincent McMorrow]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
|[[Cat Deeley]]
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="3"|
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
| Producers
|-
| rowspan="14" |[[67th Primetime Emmy Awards|2015]]
| rowspan="3" {{won}}
| rowspan="9" |Outstanding Choreography
| rowspan="3" |[[Travis Wall]]
|Contemporary
|"Wave"—[[Beck]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"When I Go"—[[Over the Rhine (band)|Over the Rhine]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Wind Beneath My Wings]]"—[[RyanDan]]
|-
| rowspan="3" {{nom}}
| rowspan="3" |[[Sonya Tayeh]]
|Contemporary
|"Vow"—[[Meredith Monk]] 
|-
|Contemporary
|"So Broken (Live)"—[[Björk]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"Europe, After The Rain" —[[Max Richter]]
|-
| rowspan="3" {{nom}}
| rowspan="3" |[[Spencer Liff]]
|Broadway
|"[[Hernando's Hideaway]]"—[[Ella Fitzgerald]]
|-
|Broadway
|"[[I've Got the World on a String]]"—[[Frank Sinatra]]
|-
|Broadway
|"[[Maybe This Time (Kaye Ballard song)|Maybe This Time]]"—[[Liza Minnelli]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
|[[Cat Deeley]]
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" rowspan="5" |
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
|Robert Barnhart, Matt Firestone, Patrick Boozer, Pete Radice
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series Or Special
|Sallie Nicole, Sean Smith, Dean Banowetz, Ralph Abalos, Shawn Finch, Melissa Jaqua
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special
|Heather Cummings, Marie DelPrete, Amy Harmon, Tyson Fountaine, Adam Christopher
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Reality Competition Program
|Producers
|-
| rowspan="5" |[[68th Primetime Emmy Awards|2016]]
| rowspan="3" {{nom}}
| rowspan="4" |Outstanding Choreography
| rowspan="3" |[[Travis Wall]]
|Contemporary
|"Beautiful Friends"—[[Helen Money]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"November"—[[Max Richter]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Gimme All Your Love]]"—[[Alabama Shakes]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Anthony Morigerato
|Tap
|"Dibidy Dop (Swing Mix)"—[[Club des Belugas]] feat. Brenda Boykin
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
|Robert Barnhart, Matt Firestone, Patrick Boozer, Pete Radice
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" |
|-
| rowspan="6" |[[69th Primetime Emmy Awards|2017]]
| rowspan="3" {{won}}
| rowspan="5" |Outstanding Choreography
| rowspan="3" |[[Travis Wall]]
|Contemporary
|"The Mirror"—[[Alexandre Desplat]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[Send In the Clowns|Send in the Clowns]]"—[[Sarah Vaughan]] and the [[Count Basie Orchestra]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"[[She Used to Be Mine (Sara Bareilles song)|She Used to be Mine]]"—[[Sara Bareilles]]
|-
| rowspan="2" {{nom}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Mandy Moore (choreographer)|Mandy Moore]]
|Contemporary
|"[[Unsteady (song)|Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)]]"—[[X Ambassadors]]
|-
|Contemporary
|"This is Not the End"—[[Clare Maguire]]
|-
|{{nom}}
|Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
|Robert Barnhart, Matt Firestone, Patrick Boozer, Pete Radice
| style="background:#ccc;" colspan="2" |
|}

===Teen Choice Awards===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" 
|-
! style="width:70px;"| Year
! style="width:190px;"| Result
! style="width:280px;"| Category
|-
|rowspan=2 style="text-align: center" | 2006
|rowspan=2 {{won}}
| [[Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Series|Choice TV: Breakout Show]]
|-
| Choice Summer Series
|-
| style="text-align: center" | 2007
|{{nom}}
| Choice Summer TV Show
|-
|rowspan=2 style="text-align: center" | 2008
|rowspan=2 {{nom}}
| Choice Summer TV Show
|-
| Choice TV: Reality Dance
|-
|rowspan=2 style="text-align: center" | 2010
|rowspan=2 {{nom}}
| Choice Personality: Cat Deeley
|-
| Choice Summer TV Show
|-
|style="text-align: center" | 2018
|{{won}}
| Choice Summer TV Show
|}

==See also==
* [[So You Think You Can Dance|''So You Think You Can Dance'' franchise index and overview]]
* ''[[List of So You Think You Can Dance finalists]]''
* [[Dance on television]] (list of shows)

'''Similar dance competition TV shows:'''
* ''[[America's Best Dance Crew]]''
* ''[[Live to Dance]]/[[Got to Dance]]''
* ''[[Superstars of Dance]]''
* ''[[World of Dance (TV series)|World of Dance]]''

== Notes ==
{{Notelist|refs=

{{efn|name="Dancer showcase"|From its inception in season 6 and through season 10, the dancer showcase episode represented a non-competitive round with no viewer voting or subsequent eliminations, followed the next week by the first competitive round. In season 11, it was the first episode of the season upon which viewers voted.}}

{{efn|name="Dancer showcase reveal"|For seasons 8 to 10, the dancer showcase episode was combined with the Top 20 reveal episode, with groups of dancers performing immediately after being revealed as finalists.}}

{{efn|name="Elimination 1"|In seasons 7 and 8, the judges decided not to eliminate any dancers on the occasion of one results show; in both cases, this event was followed by the elimination of double the normal number of contestants the following week. Similarly, for format reasons, season 9 featured two shows with double eliminations, with four dancers eliminated instead of two for each of these shows.}}

{{efn|name="Elimination 2"|Unlike all previous seasons, season 12 featured the elimination of one "street" dancer and one "stage" dancer each week, as opposed to one female and one male contestant (as in all previous seasons which eliminated two dancers per week).}}

{{efn|name="Elimination 3"|In season 13, the judges held the audition rounds, but the all-stars, rather than the judges, made the eliminations during Academy week to choose the top 10. After this, in episodes 7 and 8, from the two contestants with the lowest viewer votes, the judges made the elimination. In episode 9, the two contestants with the lowest viewer votes were both eliminated and in episodes 10 and 11, the contestant with the lowest viewer votes was eliminated.}}

{{efn|name="Elimination 4"|In episode 9 of season 17, none of the contestants were eliminated. Three were eliminated in episode 10, while one was eliminated in episode 11.}}

{{efn|name="Elimination 5"|In season 17, votes are submitted not by the at-home viewing audience through telephone or online voting, but rather solely by the in-studio live audience of each performance episode.}}

{{efn|name="Season 13"|Season 13 (during which the show was subtitled 'The Next Generation') featured competitors between the ages of 9 (or as young as 8 at the time of application) and 14.}}

{{efn|name="2007 Outstanding Choreography award"|Wade Robson and Mia Michaels were joint-winners along with [[Rob Marshall]] and John Deluca from ''[[Tony Bennett|Tony Bennett: An American Classic]]''.}}

}}

==References==
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