Venue United States Host Cat Deeley Broadcaster FOX | Website www.fox.com/dance Presented by Cat Deeley Winner Ricky Ubeda | |
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Broadcast from May 28 – September 3, 2014 Judges Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy | ||
So You Think You Can Dance, an American dance competition show, returned for its eleventh season on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. 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. 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.
Contents
- Auditions
- Callbacks
- Top 20 Finalists
- Performances
- Meet the Top 20 July 2 2014
- Top 20 July 9 2014
- Top 18 July 16 2014
- Top 16 July 23 2014
- Top 14 July 30 2014
- Top 10 August 6 2014
- Top 8 August 13 2014
- Top 6 August 20 2014
- Top 4 August 27 2014
- Week 10 Finale September 3 2014
- All Stars Dance Pool
- References
Contemporary dancer 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 dancer 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.
Auditions
Open auditions for season 11 were held in five cities beginning on Jan 13.
Callbacks
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 dancers 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 dancers remained, from which the judges selected a Top 20 to proceed into the performance show stage of the competition.
Top 20 Finalists
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.
Performances
In contrast with previous seasons, the top 20 showcase, in which all the dancers performed in their own styles, was a competitive and special episode.