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So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 11
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So You Think You Can Dance, an American dance competition show, returned for its eleventh season on Wednesday, May 28, 2014.[1] The commission of an eleventh season was first announced by series creator Nigel Lythgoe on the September 10, 2013, telecast of the season 10 finale.[2] The season again features Lythgoe, who also serves as executive producer, and ballroom expert Mary Murphy as the two permanent members of the judge's panel while Cat Deeley continues in her role as host for a tenth consecutive season.
Contemporary contestant Ricky Ubeda won the competition, and his prizes include $250,000, the chance to appear on the cover of Dance Spirit magazine, the offer of a role in the 2014 Broadway revival of the musical On the Town as choreographed by one of this season's guest choreographers, Joshua Bergasse, and the title of America's Favorite Dancer. The runner-up was tap contestant Valerie Rockey. This season saw the show eliminate interactive viewer participation by telephone, with producers preferring to divert weekly voting to the show's website and the network's new proprietary smartphone app, a process that reduced the overall number of votes each participating viewer could cast each week. Ubeda and fellow grand finalist Valerie Rockey, who were paired as a couple from the first performance episode, became the sixteenth contestants in the show's run never to face elimination from being among the bottom six or bottom four contestants, became the thirteenth contestants to be in the grand finale, and became the fifth couple in the show's run never to face elimination from being among the bottom six or bottom four contestants in the grand finale and became the original couple who were the final two.
–Moore and fellow grand finalist Mark Germor, who were paired as a couple from the first performance episode, became the fourteenth contestants in the show's run never to face elimination from being among the bottom six or bottom four contestants, became the ? contestants to be in the grand finale, and became the fourth pair in the show's run never to face elimination from being among the bottom six or bottom four contestants in the grand finale.
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Auditions
Open auditions for season 11 were held in five cities beginning on Jan 13.[3][4]
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Callbacks
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In a change from the procedure of the previous nine seasons, in which post-open-audition callbacks were held in Las Vegas and referenced collectively as "Vegas Week", season 11's callbacks were held in Los Angeles, with no special nomenclature. A total of 157 contestants began the week by performing a solo; those contestants not cut at this point went on to learn and perform various styles of choreography with cuts being made after every round. At the end of the final round of the week, 44 contestants remained, from which the judges selected a Top 20 to proceed into the performance show stage of the competition.
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Finals
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Top 20 Contestants
As with most previous seasons of So You Think You Can Dance, ten female contestants and ten male contestants were selected at the end of the callbacks week to proceed into the performance show stage of the competition.[5]
Female Contestants
Male Contestants
Elimination chart
Female | Male | Bottom 6 contestants | Bottom 4 contestants | Eliminated |
Performances
In contrast with previous seasons, the top 20 showcase, in which all the contestants performed in their own styles, was a competitive and special episode.
Meet the Top 20 (July 2, 2014)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Jason Derulo
- Guest Performance: Jason Derulo and Snoop Dogg —"Wiggle"
- Performances:
Top 20 (July 9, 2014)
- Group Dance: "New York, New York" from On the Town (Broadway; Choreographer: Joshua Bergasse)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Misty Copeland
- Performances:
Top 18 (July 16, 2014)
- Group Dance: "How It's Done"—District 78 (Hip-hop; Choreographers: Christopher "Pharside" Jennings and Krystal "Phoenix" Meraz)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Misty Copeland
- Guest Performance: A Great Big World - Say Something
- Performances:
Top 16 (July 23, 2014)
- Group Dance: "Take Me to the River"—Annie Lenox (Jazz; Choreographer: Mandy Moore)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Misty Copeland
- Guest Performance: Lucy Hale—"Lie a Little Better"
Top 14 (July 30, 2014)
- Group Dance: "Last Moment"—Christophe Filippi (Contemporary; Choreographer: Stacey Tookey)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Christina Applegate
- Solos:
Top 10 (August 6, 2014)
- Group Dance: "Bang Bang"—Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj (Hip-hop; Choreographer: Jamal Sims)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Tara Lipinski
- Guest Performance: Christina Perri—"Burning Gold"
Top 8 (August 13, 2014)
- Group Dance: "A Place With No Name"—Michael Jackson (Hip-hop; Choreographer: Travis Payne)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Jenna Dewan Tatum
- Top 8 contestants' solos:
Contestant | Style | Music |
Tanisha Belnap | Ballroom | "Warrior"—Havana Brown |
Zack Everhart | Tap | "Gotta Get Thru This" (Acoustic Version)—Daniel Bedingfield |
Casey Askew | Contemporary | "Outro"—M83 |
Rudy Abreu | Contemporary | "Warrior"—Drehz |
Jacque LeWarne | Ballet | "Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, (Op. Posth.): Lento"—Dejan Lazic & Pieter Wispelwey |
Jessica Richens | Jazz | "Taking Chances"—Celine Dion |
Valerie Rockey | Tap | "Dance with Me Tonight"—Olly Murs |
Ricky Ubeda | Contemporary | "Hægt, kemur ljósið"—Ólafur Arnalds |
Top 6 (August 20, 2014)
- Group Dance: "Hide (Tropkillaz Remix)"—N.A.S.A feat. Aynzil Jones (Hip-hop; Choreographer: Nick Demoura)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Christina Applegate
- Guest Performance: Rixton — "Me and My Broken Heart"
- Top 6 contestant's solos:
Contestant | Style | Music |
Ricky Ubeda | Contemporary | "My Tears Are Becoming A Sea"—M83 |
Jessica Richens | Jazz/Contemporary | "I Was Here"—Beyoncé |
Casey Askew | Contemporary | "Lay Me Down" (Acoustic Version)—Sam Smith |
Valerie Rockey | Tap | "What I Like About You"—The Romantics |
Jacque LeWarne | Ballet | "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"—The Andrews Sisters |
Zack Everhart | Tap | "Butterfly"—Jason Mraz |
Top 4 (August 27, 2014)
- Group Dance: "Wind Beneath My Wings"—RyanDan (Contemporary; Choreographer: Travis Wall)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- Guest Performance: Jason Mraz—"Love Someone"
- Top 4 contestant's solos:
Week 10 (Finale) (September 3, 2014)
- Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Debbie Allen, Adam Shankman, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Tara Lipinski
- Guest Music Performance: Enrique Iglesias and Sean Paul - "Bailando"
- Group dances & guest performers:
^1 Michael Dameski is the winner of So You Think You Can Dance Australia's fourth season.
Judges & grand-finalists' picks
All-Stars Dance Pool
- This contestant was eliminated this week.
- This contestant was in the bottom 4 this week.
- This contestant won the competition.
- This contestant runner-up.
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Ratings
U.S. Nielsen ratings
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References
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