So You Think You Can Dance

So You Think You Can Dance is an American television reality program and dance competition airing on the FOX network. Season one premiered July 20, 2005. Nick Lazzarini was announced as the winner on the October 5, 2005 season finale, and received a grand prize of $100,000 and use of an apartment in New York City, New York for one year. Open auditions for America's favorite dancer were held in: Judges for auditions were Nigel Lythgoe (executive p... more

So You Think You Can Dance is an American television reality program and dance competition airing on the FOX network. Season one premiered July 20, 2005. Nick Lazzarini was announced as the winner on the October 5, 2005 season finale, and received a grand prize of $100,000 and use of an apartment in New York City, New York for one year. Open auditions for America's favorite dancer were held in: Judges for auditions were Nigel Lythgoe (executive producer/creator), Bonnie Lythgoe (Nigel's wife) and Simon Fuller (also an executive producer of the show). Each dancer needed to do a choreography, and after that, the judges decided the 50 dancers that should join them in Hollywood. A total of fifty dancers—25 male and 25 female—who impressed the judges were invited to move on to "Hollywood Week," where their skills were challenged by choreographers Alex Da Silva, Brian Friedman, Dan Karaty, Mia Michaels, and Mary Murphy. From this group, 16 dancers—eight male and eight female—were chosen to... less