<P> So You Think You Can Dance is an American televised show dance competition show that airs on Fox in the United States and is the flagship series of the international So You Think You Can Dance television franchise . It was created by American Idol producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and is produced by 19 Entertainment, Dick Clark Productions, and Conrad Sewell 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 former British children's television personality and game show emcee Cat Deeley . During its second season, the program remained the No. 1 rated summer show (adults aged 18--49), but it has declined in ratings since . </P> <P> The show features a tiered format wherein dancers trained in a variety of dance genres enter open auditions held in a number of major U.S. cities to showcase their talents and may move forward through successive additional rounds of auditions to test their ability to adapt to different styles . At the end of this process, a small number of dancers are chosen as finalists . These dancers move on to the competition's main phase, where they perform solo, duet, and group dance numbers on live television, attempting to master a diverse selection of dance styles, including classical, contemporary, ballroom, hip - hop, street, club, jazz, and musical theatre styles, among others . 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 . </P> <P> So You Think You Can Dance has won seven 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 37 countries to date . On February 15, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a fifteenth season, set to premiere June 4, 2018 and see Deeley return as Host and Lythgoe, Murphy and Hudgens return as judges . </P> <P> 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 . Though it is produced over the course of months, the selection phase is highly edited and usually constitutes only the first 2--4 weeks of aired episodes, with the competition episodes forming the remaining 8--9 weeks of the season . </P>

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