So You Think You Can Dance (season 8)
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So You Think You Can Dance is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 network. The show's eighth season premiered on May 26, 2011. It features the return of Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy (choreographer)
Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

 and Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

 as permanent judges and Cat Deeley
Cat Deeley
Catherine Elizabeth "Cat" Deeley is an English television presenter and model. Since 2006, Deeley has also been the host of So You Think You Can Dance in the United States, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition...

 as host. Also returning is the selection of a Top 20 for the finals, in contrast to season 7's Top 11. Contemporary dancer Melanie Moore
Melanie Moore
Melanie Moore is an American former pornographic actress and nude model. She featured in over 300 films during the 1990s. She won the 1993 "Best Supporting Actress, Video" AVN Award for Party of Payne....

 won the season and Sasha Mallory was the runner-up. This is the first season where both the winner and runner-up were female. DialIdol
DialIdol
DialIdol is both the name of a computer program for Microsoft Windows and its associated website that tracks voting trends for American Idol contestants. The program allows users to automatically vote for the American Idol contestants of their choice using their PC's modem...

 covered only the last four weeks of this season.

Judging panel

Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy (choreographer)
Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

 returned and replaced Mia Michaels
Mia Michaels
Mia Michaels is an American choreographer best known for her judging and contemporary choreography on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance . She has worked with musical artists such as Celine Dion, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, and Prince...

 as a permanent judge after being absent in season 7
So You Think You Can Dance (season 7)
So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season seven premiered on May 27, 2010...

 due to contract disputes and to undergo surgery to remove a thyroid
Thyroid
The thyroid gland or simply, the thyroid , in vertebrate anatomy, is one of the largest endocrine glands. The thyroid gland is found in the neck, below the thyroid cartilage...

 tumor
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

. Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman
Adam Michael Shankman is an American film director, producer, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He has been a judge on the television program So You Think You Can Dance since Season 3. He began his professional career in musical theater, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet...

's permanent judge spot—to which he was unable to return due to conflict with directing the film Rock of Ages—was filled with rotating guest judges Robin Antin
Robin Antin
Robin Antin is an American dancer, choreographer, music video director, actress, showgirl, clothing designer and entrepreneur. In 1995 in Los Angeles Antin, Christina Applegate and Carla Kama founded the modern burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls...

, Lil' C
Lil' C
Christopher "Lil' C" Toler is an American dancer and choreographer best known as being one of the pioneers of the hip-hop dance style krumping and for his choreography and judging on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the krumping documentary Rize...

, Tyce Diorio
Tyce Diorio
Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

, Toni Redpath
Toni Redpath
Toni Redpath is a professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.-Biography:Toni Redpath was born in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia, and started ballroom dancing at the age of 9, after accompanying a friend to a local dance competition and deciding that it looked like too much fun...

, and Jason Gilkison
Jason Gilkison
Jason Gilkison is an Australian professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.- Dance career :Gilkison formed a professional partnership with Peta Roby in 1980 and were undefeated Australian Latin champions from 1981 to 1997....

.

Auditions

Open auditions for this season took place in the following five cities:

Air Date Location Audition Date Judges
May 26, 2011 Paramount Theatre - Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

 (billed as San Francisco)
October 13, 2010 Nigel Lythgoe, Tyce Diorio, Toni Redpath
Fox Theatre - Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

 
February 19, 2011 Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Lil' C
June 1, 2011 Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 
November 15, 2010 Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Jason Gilkison
Capitol Theater - Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 
February 2, 2011 Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Robin Antin
June 2, 2011 Orpheum Theatre - Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 
March 12, 2011 Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Tyce Diorio

Las Vegas week

Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen
Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities...

, Tyce Diorio
Tyce Diorio
Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

, Robin Antin
Robin Antin
Robin Antin is an American dancer, choreographer, music video director, actress, showgirl, clothing designer and entrepreneur. In 1995 in Los Angeles Antin, Christina Applegate and Carla Kama founded the modern burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls...

, and Adam Shankman, who was replaced by Jason Gilkison on Day 2 due to a conflict with his schedule.
The Las Vegas callbacks, which started on April 8, 2011, were held at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino
Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino
Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, previously known as The Aladdin, is a casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip, in the unincorporated locale of Paradise, Nevada, United States. Westgate Resorts operates the condo portion of the property, known as PH Towers by Westgate.Planet Hollywood is owned by Caesars...

 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

. Thirty-one dancers made it through to the final stage before the selection of the Top 20.
Task/style Music Choreographer(s)
Individual solo Music chosen by contestant The dancer
Hip-Hop Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo
Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo
Tabitha A. D'umo and Napoleon Buddy D'umo , known together as Nappytabs, are Emmy Award winning married choreographers who are often credited with developing the new style of hip-hop dance known as lyrical hip-hop...

Broadway "I Gotcha" from Fosse
Fosse
Fosse is a three-act musical revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse. After 21 previews, the original Broadway production, conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr...

Tyce Diorio
Tyce Diorio
Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

Jive
Jive (dance)
In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...

"Blue Suede Shoes
Blue Suede Shoes
"Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955 and is considered one of the first rockabilly records and incorporated elements of blues, country and pop music of the time...

 (from Viva Elvis
Viva Elvis
Viva Elvis is the seventh resident Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip. It resides at the Aria Resort & Casino and premiered on February 19, 2010...

)"—Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

Jason Gilkison
Group routines Picked out of a hat The dancers
Contemporary
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

"Yellow
Yellow (song)
"Yellow" is a song by English alternative rock band Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson for their debut album, Parachutes...

"—Vitamin String Quartet
Travis Wall
Travis Wall
Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

Individual solo Music chosen by contestant The dancer

Format changes

This season featured a combination of the Top 20 format from seasons 2–6 and the All-Star format from season 7. The finals began with a Top 20. When the show reached Top 10 week, contestants from previous seasons (the All-Stars) partnered current contestants in individual dance genres. Lythgoe has noted that although fans of the show complained about season 7's format and missed "the interconnection between people who had never been in competition before," "putting [contestants] with an All-Star lifted their game immensely," which informed his decision to combine the two formats and try to "have the best of both worlds." This season also marked the first time that the public was able to cast their votes online, in addition to calling in, with a limit of 50 votes per viewer.

Male contestants

Finalist Age Home Town Dance Style Placement
Marko Germar 22 Dededo, Guam
Dededo, Guam
Dededo is the most populated village of the United States territory of Guam. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dededo's population was just under 45,000 in 2010. The village is located on the coral plateau of Northern Guam.- Etymology :...

Contemporary Jazz 3rd Place
Tadd Gadduang 25 West Valley City, Utah
West Valley City, Utah
West Valley City is a city in Salt Lake County and a suburb of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 129,480 at the 2010 census,...

B-Boying 4th Place
Ricky Jaime 19 Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

Contemporary Top 6
Jess LeProtto 18 Little Falls, New Jersey
Little Falls, New Jersey
Little Falls is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the township population was 10,855. It is located about from New York City....

Broadway Top 8
Mitchell Kelly 20 Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

Contemporary Top 10
Alexander Fost 21 Alhambra, California
Alhambra, California
Alhambra is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, which is approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. As of the 2010 census, the population was 83,089, down from 85,804 at the 2000 census. The city's...

Ballet Top 12
Chris Koehl 21 Garland, Texas
Garland, Texas
-Climate:* The average warmest month is July.* The highest recorded temperature was in 2000.* On average, the coolest month is January.* The lowest recorded temperature was in 1989.* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May....

Hip-Hop Top 14
Robert Taylor, Jr. 31* Brooklyn, New York Hip-hop Top 16
Wadi Jones 24 Ossining, New York B-Boying Top 20
Nick Young 19 Franklin, Wisconsin
Franklin, Wisconsin
Franklin, Wisconsin can refer to several places:*Franklin, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town*Franklin , Jackson County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community*Franklin, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, a town...

Tap Top 20

  • Robert was 30 at the time of application. His age on the website is 31 years old.

Female contestants

Finalist Age Home Town Dance Style Placement
Melanie Moore 19 Marietta, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs...

Contemporary Winner
Sasha Mallory 23 Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....

African Jazz Runner-up
Caitlynn Lawson 18 Moses Lake, Washington
Moses Lake, Washington
Moses Lake is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 20,366 as of the 2010 census. Moses Lake is the largest city in Grant County.-Background:...

Contemporary Top 6
Jordan Casanova 19* Chino Hills, California
Chino Hills, California
Chino Hills is a Los Angeles suburb located in the southwestern corner of San Bernardino County, California, United States. The city borders Los Angeles County on its northwest side, Orange County to its south, and Riverside County to its southeast...

Jazz Top 8
Clarice Ordaz 19 Whittier, California
Whittier, California
Whittier is a city in Los Angeles County, California about southeast of Los Angeles. The city had a population of 85,331 at the 2010 census, up from 83,680 as of the 2000 census, and encompasses 14.7 square miles . Like nearby Montebello, the city constitutes part of the Gateway Cities...

Jazz Top 10
Ryan Ramirez 19 Morgan Hill, California
Morgan Hill, California
Morgan Hill is a city located in the southern part of Santa Clara County, California, United States. Founded on November 10, 1906, the city was named after Hiram Morgan Hill, a San Franciscan who built a country retreat home there in 1884...

Contemporary Top 12
Ashley Rich 22 Antioch, California
Antioch, California
Antioch is a city in Contra Costa County, California. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, it is a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland. The city's population was 102,372 at the U.S...

Contemporary Top 14
Miranda Maleski 19 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

Contemporary Top 16
Iveta Lukosiute 30 Klaipėda
Klaipeda
Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Nemunas River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County....

, Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

Ballroom Top 20
Missy Morelli 20 Arvada, Colorado
Arvada, Colorado
The City of Arvada is a Home Rule Municipality located in Jefferson and Adams counties in the Denver metropolitan area of the U.S. State of Colorado. Olde Town Arvada is located northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver...

Jazz Top 20

  • Jordan turned 19 on June 15, 2011.

Elimination chart

Contestants are listed alphabetically by first name, then in reverse chronological order of elimination.

Legend
Female Male Bottom 3 couples Bottom 4 contestants Injury
Week: 6/23 6/30 7/7 7/14 7/21 7/28 8/4 8/11
Contestant Result
Melanie Moore Winner
Sasha Mallory Btm 3 Runner-up
Marko Germar 3rd Place
Tadd Gadduang Btm 3 Btm 3 Btm 4 4th Place
Ricky Jaime Btm 3 Btm 3 Btm 3 Btm 4 Elim
Caitlynn Lawson Btm 3 Btm 3 Btm 4
Jess LeProtto Btm 3 Elim
Jordan Casanova Btm 3 Btm 3 Btm 4
Mitchell Kelly Injury Btm 3 Btm 3 Elim
Clarice Ordaz Btm 3
Alexander Fost Elim
Ryan Ramirez Btm 3 Btm 3
Chris Koehl Btm 3 Elim
Ashley Rich Btm 3
Robert Taylor, Jr. Btm 3 Elim
Miranda Maleski Btm 3
Nick Young Elim
Iveta Lukosiute
Wadi Jones
Missy Morelli

The judges elected not to eliminate anyone the first week. As a result, two couples were eliminated the following week.


Due to Mitchell Kelly having an elbow injury, he was barred from performing the routine. See below for more information.

Meet the Top 20 (June 9, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Tyce Diorio, Lil' C, Robin Antin

  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s)
    Ricky Jaime
    Miranda Maleski
    Sasha Mallory
    Melanie Moore
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "In This Shirt"—The Irrepressibles
    The Irrepressibles
    The Irrepressibles is a ten-member orchestral ensemble led by composer and musician Jamie McDermott, described by The Sunday Times as "an enchantingly theatrical pop extravaganza.” They have recorded one studio album, Mirror Mirror, and a seven track CD/DVD package entitled From The Circus to the...

    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey is a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Emmy-nominated Tookey is best known for her frequent appearances as a Resident Choreographer and Guest Judge on the Canadian and American versions of the television show So You Think You Can Dance. Tookey served as...

    Tadd Gadduang
    Wadi Jones
    Chris Koehl
    Robert Taylor, Jr.
    Hip-hop "Everyday (Coolin')"—Swizz Beatz
    Swizz Beatz
    Kasseem Dean , better known by his stage name, Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer, DJ, rapper and painter. At the age of 17, he gained attention in the hip-hop world through his friendship with rapper DMX. Grady Spivey and rapper Cassidy helped launch his label Full Surface Records...

     feat. Eve
    Dave Scott
    Iveta Lukosiute
    Pasha Kovalev
    Ballroom Medley
    (Viennese Waltz
    Viennese Waltz
    Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.What is now called...

    , Paso Doble, and Cha-cha-cha
    Cha-cha-cha (dance)
    The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...

    )
    "Ven a Bailar (On the Floor)
    On the Floor
    "On the Floor" is a song by American recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez, featuring Latin American rapper Pitbull. It was released by Island Records on February 11, 2011, as the lead single from Lopez's seventh studio album, Love?...

    "—Jennifer Lopez
    Jennifer Lopez
    Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...

     feat. Pitbull
    Pitbull (rapper)
    Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...

    Jason Gilkison
    Jordan Casanova
    Marko Germar
    Missy Morelli
    Clarice Ordaz
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Vanguardian"—Steed Lord
    Steed Lord
    Steed Lord is a musical performance art project working on the frontiers of pure creativity and music making with impressive and energetic live performances, experimental filmmaking, photography, fashion design and styling, art direction, graphic design and other visual mediums...

    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Jess LeProtto
    Nick Young
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    /Tap
    Tap dance
    Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...

    "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter"—Nina Simone
    Nina Simone
    Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

    Christopher Scott
    Christopher Scott (choreographer)
    Christopher Scott is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. Born on September 20, 1983 in Takoma Park Maryland.-Early life:Scott grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Hollywood, California, and entered the 9th grade at Hollywood High School. He applied...

    Alexander Fost
    Mitchell Kelly
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Ryan Ramirez
    Ashley Rich
    Contemporary "Moth's Wings"—Passion Pit
    Passion Pit
    Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which formed in 2007, consists of Michael Angelakos , Ian Hultquist , Ayad Al Adhamy , Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer...

    Travis Wall
    Travis Wall
    Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

    Top 10 guys Hip-hop/Contemporary "Velocity"—Nathan Lanier Christopher Scott
    Top 10 girls Jazz "Pop Drop & Roll"—Chonique Sneed & Lisette Bustamante Sonya Tayeh
    Top 20 Jazz "Little Bird
    Little Bird (Annie Lennox song)
    "Little Bird" is a song by the Scottish singer Annie Lennox, and was released as a single in 1993. Taken from her debut solo album, Diva , it was released as a double A-side with "Love Song for a Vampire"...

    "—Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

    Tyce Diorio

Top 20 Perform (June 15, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Megan Mullally
    Megan Mullally
    Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...


  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    Jordan Casanova
    Tadd Gadduang
    African Jazz "Riding the Waves"—Afro Celt Sound System
    Afro Celt Sound System
    The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

    Sean Cheesman Bottom 3
    Sasha Mallory
    Alexander Fost
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Stupid
    Stupid (Sarah McLachlan song)
    "Stupid" is a song written by Sarah McLachlan and produced by Pierre Marchand for McLachlan's eighth album Afterglow . It was released as the album's second single in Australia and the United States in mid-2004....

    " (Mark Bell mix)—Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

    Travis Wall
    Travis Wall
    Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

    Safe
    Clarice Ordaz
    Jess LeProtto
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Me and My Baby"—Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli
    Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....

    Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    Bottom 3
    Ryan Ramirez
    Ricky Jaime
    Lyrical hip-hop "Ain't No Sunshine
    Ain't No Sunshine
    "Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just as I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, as well as Withers on lead vocals and guitar. The song was released as a single in September...

    "—Lighthouse Family
    Lighthouse Family
    Lighthouse Family are a British musical duo that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and remained active until the early 2000s. Vocalist Tunde Baiyewu and keyboardist Paul Tucker formed the act in 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK after meeting while studying at university...

    Christopher Scott
    Christopher Scott (choreographer)
    Christopher Scott is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. Born on September 20, 1983 in Takoma Park Maryland.-Early life:Scott grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Hollywood, California, and entered the 9th grade at Hollywood High School. He applied...

    Safe
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Robert Roldan
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "In For the Kill" (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)—La Roux
    La Roux
    La Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...

    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Safe
    Miranda Maleski
    Robert Taylor, Jr.
    Jive
    Jive (dance)
    In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...

    "Runaway Baby"—Bruno Mars
    Bruno Mars
    Peter Gene Hernandez , better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an Filipino-American singer-songwriter and record producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age...

    Jason Gilkison Bottom 3
    Missy Morelli
    Wadi Jones
    Jazz "Judas
    Judas (song)
    "Judas" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga, taken from her second studio album Born This Way . The song was released worldwide on April 15, 2011, four days ahead of its scheduled release, by Interscope Records. Written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Judas" is a dance song that...

    " (R3HAB Remix)—Lady Gaga
    Lady GaGa
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

    Sean Cheesman Safe
    Melanie Moore
    Marko Germar
    Contemporary "Turn to Stone"—Ingrid Michaelson
    Ingrid Michaelson
    Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Scrubs, Bones, Grey's Anatomy The Big C and One Tree Hill, as well as in Old Navy's Fall 2007 Fair Isle and Opel's/Vauxhall's...

    Travis Wall Safe
    Ashley Rich
    Chris Koehl
    Hip-Hop "Forget You"—Cee Lo Green Christopher Scott Safe
    Iveta Lukosiute
    Nick Young
    Quickstep
    Quickstep
    The quickstep is a light-hearted member of the standard ballroom dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. The upbeat melodies that quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events...

    "The Ballroom Blitz"—Sweet
    Sweet (band)
    Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...

    Jason Gilkison Safe


Due to a shoulder injury, Mitchell Kelly was barred from performing in his routine. He was replaced for the evening by season 7's Robert Roldan and was automatically in danger of going home.

Top 20 Perform Again (June 22, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Debbie Reynolds
    Debbie Reynolds
    Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...


  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    Ryan Ramirez
    Ricky Jaime
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Addicted to Love
    Addicted to Love (song)
    Tina Turner has made "Addicted to Love" a regular feature of her live shows since 1986, although her version did not make it onto the market until two years later....

    "—Robert Palmer
    Mandy Moore
    Mandy Moore (choreographer)
    Mandy Moore is an emerging contemporary, jazz choreographer and performer whose work has been seen on television, in film and on the concert stage. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2005 and again in 2011 for choreography performed on the television show So You Think You Can Dance.Moore was one of...

    Bottom 3
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Mitchell Kelly
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Turning Tables
    Turning Tables
    "Turning Tables" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Adele from her second studio album, 21 . The song was written by Adele and Ryan Tedder and it was produced by Jim Abbiss. The pop song was written in the key of C Minor...

    "—Adele
    Adele (singer)
    Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...

    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey is a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Emmy-nominated Tookey is best known for her frequent appearances as a Resident Choreographer and Guest Judge on the Canadian and American versions of the television show So You Think You Can Dance. Tookey served as...

    Safe
    Missy Morelli
    Wadi Jones
    Cha-cha-cha
    Cha-cha-cha (dance)
    The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...

    "Cannibal"—Kesha
    Kesha
    Kesha village is a small village nestled in the mountains of Yongshun County, northwestern Hunan province, China, located at latitude 29 05' 50", longitude 109 57' 9". The name is pronounced in Standard Chinese. The official language is Manderin Chinese....

    Jean-Marc Généreux
    Jean-Marc Genereux
    -Biography:Généreux met his partner and wife, France Mousseau, while ballroom dancing in Quebec, Canada. They competed successfully as amateurs starting in 1977, and then professionally in 1986, in the Latin and 10-dance dancesport divisions, and retired in 1998....

    Both eliminated
    Iveta Lukosiute
    Nick Young
    Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

    "Baawre" from Luck by Chance
    Luck by Chance
    Luck By Chance is a 2009 Indian drama film written and directed by Zoya Akhtar. Produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, the film stars Farhan Akhtar and Konkana Sen Sharma in the lead roles...

    Nakul Dev Mahajan
    Nakul Dev Mahajan
    Nakul Dev Mahajan is an American Bollywood dancer and choreographer best known for his choreography on So You Think You Can Dance...

    Both eliminated
    Miranda Maleski
    Robert Taylor, Jr.
    Hip-hop "Break Ya Neck
    Break Ya Neck
    "Break Ya Neck" is the first single by American rapper Busta Rhymes, from his fifth album Genesis . The song was produced by Dr. Dre and Scott Storch. Truth Hurts provides background vocals. The song contains an interpolation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Give It Away"...

    "—Busta Rhymes
    Busta Rhymes
    Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...

    Nappytabs Safe
    Clarice Ordaz
    Jess LeProtto
    Contemporary "Cathedrals"—Jump, Little Children
    Jump, Little Children
    Jump, Little Children, later known as Jump, was a band formed in 1991 in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Known for their unique sound, energetic live performances, and willingness to interact with fans, the band built a strong following over their fourteen years together...

    Stacey Tookey Safe
    Jordan Casanova
    Tadd Gadduang
    Viennese Waltz
    Viennese Waltz
    Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.What is now called...

    "Fade Into Me"—David Cook
    David Cook (singer)
    David Roland Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol...

    Jean-Marc Généreux Safe
    Melanie Moore
    Marko Germar
    Jazz "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (Raf Marchesini Remix)—DKS Mandy Moore Safe
    Sasha Mallory
    Alexander Fost
    Hip-hop "Coming Home
    Coming Home (Diddy-Dirty Money song)
    "Coming Home" is a song by American rapper and producer Diddy and his band Dirty Money, from their debut album Last Train to Paris . It was released on November 21, 2010, as the album's fourth single. The contemporary hip-hop pop song was written by Jiraphat Wongsuwan. Alex Da Kid and Jay-Z...

    "—Diddy-Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey
    Nappytabs Safe
    Ashley Rich
    Chris Koehl
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Please, Mr. Jailer"—Rachel Sweet
    Rachel Sweet
    Rachel Sweet is an American singer, television writer and actress.-Biography:After beginning her singing career at the age of three, when she won an electric garage door opener in a singing contest, she began recording commercials at the age of six, toured with Mickey Rooney, and performed in Las...

    Spencer Liff Safe

Top 16 Perform (June 29, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Kristin Chenoweth
    Kristin Chenoweth
    Kristin Chenoweth is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown , for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical...

    , Lil' C
    Lil' C
    Christopher "Lil' C" Toler is an American dancer and choreographer best known as being one of the pioneers of the hip-hop dance style krumping and for his choreography and judging on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the krumping documentary Rize...


  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    Sasha Mallory
    Chris Koehl
    Ryan Ramirez
    Tadd Gadduang
    Clarice Ordaz
    Marko Germar
    Miranda Maleski
    Mitchell Kelly
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Hit the Road Jack
    Hit the Road Jack
    "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by rhythm and bluesman Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an a capella demo sent to Art Rupe, available on the Memory Pain CD vol. 2, Specialty Records SPCD-7027-2. It became famous after it was recorded by singer-pianist Ray Charles. It hit number...

    "—Ray Charles
    Ray Charles
    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

    Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    No Results
    Sasha Mallory
    Alexander Fost
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Belong"—Cary Brothers
    Cary Brothers
    Cary Brothers is an American indie rock singer-songwriter originally from Nashville, Tennessee. After moving to Los Angeles and becoming a regular performer at the influential Hotel Cafe venue, Brothers first gained national attention with his song "Blue Eyes" on the Platinum-selling,...

    Dee Caspary Safe
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Mitchell Kelly
    Samba "Put It in a Love Song
    Put It in a Love Song
    "Put It in a Love Song" is a song by American recording artist Alicia Keys. The song, written and produced by Keys and Swizz Beatz, features guest vocals by American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. It was originally sent to radio on January 19, 2010 by J Records, as the fourth single from Keys' fourth...

    "—Alicia Keys
    Alicia Keys
    Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...

     feat. Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...

    Jean-Marc Généreux
    Jean-Marc Genereux
    -Biography:Généreux met his partner and wife, France Mousseau, while ballroom dancing in Quebec, Canada. They competed successfully as amateurs starting in 1977, and then professionally in 1986, in the Latin and 10-dance dancesport divisions, and retired in 1998....

    Bottom 3
    Miranda Maleski
    Robert Taylor, Jr.
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
    It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
    "It Don't Mean a Thing " is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Irving Mills, now accepted as a jazz standard. The music was written and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at Chicago's Lincoln Tavern and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for...

    " from Sophisticated Ladies
    Sophisticated Ladies
    Sophisticated Ladies is a musical revue based on the music of Duke Ellington.After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, conceived by Donald McKayle, directed by Michael Smuin, and choreographed by McKayle, Smuin, Henry LeTang, Bruce Heath, and Mercedes Ellington, opened on March 1, 1981 at...

    Tyce Diorio Both eliminated
    Melanie Moore
    Marko Germar
    Lyrical hip-hop "I Got You
    I Got You (Leona Lewis song)
    "I Got You" is a pop song performed by British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis. It was written by Arnthor Birgisson, Max Martin and Savan Kotecha, and produced by Birgisson. It is featured on Lewis' second studio album, Echo . "I Got You" was released on 21 February, 2010, in the United Kingdom as...

    "—Leona Lewis
    Leona Lewis
    Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....

    Nappytabs Safe
    Ashley Rich
    Chris Koehl
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Lights Go Down" (District 78 remix)—Telepathe
    Telepathe
    Telepathe is an electronic pop duo from Brooklyn consisting of core members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudis. The band also includes other occasional musicians, such as Ryan Lucero....

    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Bottom 3
    Clarice Ordaz
    Jess LeProtto
    Foxtrot "Fly Me to the Moon
    Fly Me to the Moon
    "Fly Me to the Moon" is a popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was originally titled "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets...

    "—Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

    Jean-Marc Généreux Safe
    Ryan Ramirez
    Ricky Jaime
    Contemporary "With Every Heartbeat
    With Every Heartbeat
    "With Every Heartbeat" is a song by Swedish recording artist Robyn with Swedish producer Kleerup. It was released on 30 July 2007 in the United Kingdom as the second single from the international edition of Robyn's self-titled fourth studio album, Robyn...

    " (Acoustic)—Robyn
    Robyn
    Robin Miriam Carlsson , better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist, singer, and songwriter. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit "Do You Know " from her debut album Robyn Is Here . She co-wrote the song "Du gör mig hel igen" for...

    Sonya Tayeh Safe
    Jordan Casanova
    Tadd Gadduang
    Hip-hop "Memories
    Memories (David Guetta song)
    "Memories" is song by French disc jockey David Guetta featuring American rapper Kid Cudi. It was released in February 2010 as the fourth single from Guetta's fourth studio album, One Love. The song became a top five hit in Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, Australia, the Netherlands, Finland, New...

    "—David Guetta
    David Guetta
    Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

     feat. Kid Cudi
    Kid Cudi
    Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi , better known by his stage name Kid Cudi , sometimes stylized KiD CuDi, is an American rapper, singer and actor. He first gained major attention after the release of his debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi. In 2009, his single "Day 'n' Nite" reached the top five of the...

    Nappytabs Safe
    Jordan Casanova
    Robert Taylor, Jr.
    Melanie Moore
    Jess LeProtto
    Ashley Rich
    Alexander Fost
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Ricky Jaime
    Contemporary "Poison & Wine
    Poison & Wine
    Poison & Wine is the first studio extended play from independent group The Civil Wars. It was released on November 15, 2009. "Poison & Wine" and "Tip of My Tongue" were both originally released on their live album Live at Eddie's Attic.-Singles:...

    "—The Civil Wars
    The CIVIL warS
    The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down is an opera created in the early 1980s by director Robert Wilson to music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars and others...

    Dee Caspary No Results

Top 14 Perform (July 6, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Carmen Electra
    Carmen Electra
    Tara Leigh Patrick , professionally known as Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, singer, and dancer...

    , Travis Wall
    Travis Wall
    Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...


  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    All guys Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Prague"—Damien Rice
    Damien Rice
    Damien Rice is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who plays guitar, piano, clarinet and percussion....

    Justin Giles No results
    Melanie Moore
    Marko Germar
    Jazz
    Jazz
    Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

    "Americano
    Born This Way
    Born This Way is the second studio album by American recording artist Lady Gaga that was released on May 23, 2011, by Interscope Records. The album is a follow-up to her internationally-successful albums The Fame and The Fame Monster...

    "—Lady Gaga
    Lady GaGa
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

    Ray Leeper Safe
    Sasha Mallory
    Alexander Fost
    Hip-hop "To the Moon
    To the Moon
    -Track listing:# "To The Moon"#*"A Nighean Donn" #*"A Ghealaich" # "Claire in Heaven" # "Nil Si I Ngra" -Track listing:# "To The Moon"#*"A Nighean Donn" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie)#*"A Ghealaich" (Norman Maclean; arranged by Capercaillie)# "Claire in Heaven" (Manus Lunny)# "Nil Si I Ngra" -Track...

    "—Miguel
    Miguel (singer)
    Miguel Jontel Pimentel, who performs under the mononym Miguel, is an American recording artist, songwriter and producer. Signed to Jive Records in 2007, Miguel released his debut album, All I Want Is You, in November 2010. The album was preceded by the release of the single "All I Want Is You",...

    Shaun Evaristo Safe
    Jordan Casanova
    Tadd Gadduang
    Smooth Waltz
    Waltz
    The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...

    "Nocturne"—Secret Garden
    Secret Garden (duo)
    Secret Garden is an award-winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also sometimes erroneously known as Neo-classical music.Secret Garden features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland...

    Toni Redpath
    Toni Redpath
    Toni Redpath is a professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.-Biography:Toni Redpath was born in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia, and started ballroom dancing at the age of 9, after accompanying a friend to a local dance competition and deciding that it looked like too much fun...

    Bottom 3
    Clarice Ordaz
    Jess LeProtto
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Light Through the Branches"—Celeste Lear Justin Giles Safe
    Ashley Rich
    Chris Koehl
    Salsa
    Salsa (dance)
    Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...

    "Mambo Beat"—Tito Puente
    Tito Puente
    Tito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...

    Liz Lira Both eliminated
    Ryan Ramirez
    Ricky Jaime
    Jazz "Fashion"—David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

    Charles Klapow
    Charles Klapow
    Charles "Chucky" Klapow is an American choreographer and dance instructor who has performed and choreographed for various performers and several television and stage productions. He is also known for his teachings of the mental approach to dance...

    Bottom 3
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Mitchell Kelly
    Contemporary "To Love You More
    To Love You More
    "To Love You More" is a single by Céline Dion, released in Japan on October 23, 1995.It was recorded for a popular Japanese TV drama series, called Koibito Yo , and included on The Colour of My Love album re-release in Japan...

    "—Celine Dion
    Celine Dion
    Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

    Mandy Moore
    Mandy Moore (choreographer)
    Mandy Moore is an emerging contemporary, jazz choreographer and performer whose work has been seen on television, in film and on the concert stage. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2005 and again in 2011 for choreography performed on the television show So You Think You Can Dance.Moore was one of...

    Safe
    All girls Jazz "My Discarded Men"—Eartha Kitt
    Eartha Kitt
    Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...

     feat. Bronski Beat
    Bronski Beat
    Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy". All members of the group were openly homosexual and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues...

    Ray Leeper No results

Top 12 Perform (July 13, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor who portrays Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. Previously he played the role of Richie Velch in the CBS sitcom The Class. He is openly gay.-Life and career:...

    , Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...


  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    Sasha Mallory
    Alexander Fost
    Paso Doble "Alley Dash/March of the Trolls"—Taylor Long/Rick Powell Tony Meredith
    Tony Meredith
    -Biography:Tony Meredith, born in Hawaii, discovered ballroom dancing after replying to a newspaper ad seeking dance teachers.-Dance career:Tony met Melanie LaPatin in 1981 and the two subsequently formed a professional partnership, traveling the world representing the United States 12 times in the...


    Melanie LaPatin
    Melanie LaPatin
    Melanie LaPatin is professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer, originally from Brooklyn, New York. LaPatin formed a professional partnership with Tony Meredith in 1981, marrying him in 1989, traveling the world representing the United States twelve times in the Professional World...

    Fost eliminated
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "That's Life
    That's Life (song)
    "That's Life" is a popular song written by Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon for Frank Sinatra, and released on his 1966 album of the same name. Both the album and the song proved major successes for Sinatra...

    "—Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

    Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    Jordan Casanova
    Tadd Gadduang
    Contemporary
    Contemporary
    Contemporary is a visual arts magazine, published every month. Founded and edited by Keith Spencer in 1992, it was originally called Contemporary Art...

    "Brotsjór"—Ólafur Arnalds
    Ólafur Arnalds
    Ólafur Arnalds is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and edgy beats crossing-over from classical to pop....

    Travis Wall
    Travis Wall
    Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

    Safe
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Out Tonight" from Rent
    Rent (musical)
    Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...

     (Original Broadway Cast)
    Spencer Liff
    Ryan Ramirez
    Ricky Jaime
    Broadway "All I Need is the Girl"—Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

    Spencer Liff Ramirez eliminated
    Cha-cha-cha
    Cha-cha-cha (dance)
    The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...

    "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)
    Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)
    "Tonight ," also known as "Tonight " when played on radio during daytime, is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. It features American rapper Ludacris and producer DJ Frank E. The song was released to the US radio on November 1, 2010, and it was released digitally on November 22, 2010...

    "—Enrique Iglesias
    Enrique Iglesias
    Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...

     featuring DJ Frank E
    DJ Frank E
    Justin Franks, also known as DJ Frank E, is an American DJ and record producer from Denver, Colorado. He began mixing records and later progressed to producing remixes in 2003....

    Louis van Amstel
    Louis van Amstel
    Louis Van Amstel is a Dutch-born ballroom dance champion, professional dancer, choreographer, and a dancesport coach who appears on the U.S. reality television series Dancing with the Stars.-Early life:...

    Caitlynn Lawson
    Mitchell Kelly
    Hip-hop "Break the Chain"—Lupe Fiasco
    Lupe Fiasco
    Wasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco , is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, Lupe is the CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food...

     feat. Eric Turner
    Eric Turner (singer)
    Eric Turner is an American singer-songwriter who currently resides in Sweden. He is the lead singer in the band Street Fighting Man and is also a teacher.-Background:...

     and Sway
    Sway DaSafo
    Derek Andrew Safo is a Ghanaian British musician who uses the stage names Sway DaSafo or Sway. He is signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik record label and he is also a producer, establishing DCypha Productions.-Childhood:...

    Christopher Scott
    Christopher Scott (choreographer)
    Christopher Scott is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. Born on September 20, 1983 in Takoma Park Maryland.-Early life:Scott grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Hollywood, California, and entered the 9th grade at Hollywood High School. He applied...

    Bottom 3
    Jazz "Piece of My Heart
    Piece of My Heart
    "Piece of My Heart" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song came to greater mainstream attention when Big Brother and the Holding Company covered the song in 1968 and had a hit with it...

    "—Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin
    Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...

    Travis Wall
    Melanie Moore
    Marko Germar
    Tango
    Tango (dance)
    Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....

    "Triptico"—Gotan Project
    Gotan Project
    Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal , Eduardo Makaroff , and Christoph H. Müller .-History:...

    Louis van Amstel Safe
    Contemporary "Skin and Bones"—David J. Roch Dee Caspary
    Clarice Ordaz
    Jess LeProtto
    Lyrical hip-hop "Just The Way You Are
    Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars song)
    "Just the Way You Are" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, and is the lead single from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. It was released in the United States on July 20, 2010. It has also received airplay from AOL Radio's New Pop First station. The song was written by...

    "—Boyce Avenue
    Boyce Avenue
    Boyce Avenue is an American acoustic rock band. It was formed in Sarasota, Florida, by brothers Alejandro, Daniel and Fabian Manzano. The band is named after a combination of two streets the brothers lived on as children...

    Christopher Scott Safe
    Jive
    Jive (dance)
    In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...

    "Ain't Nothing Wrong With That"—Robert Randolph and the Family Band Tony Meredith
    Melanie LaPatin

Top 10 Perform (July 20, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Neil Patrick Harris
    Neil Patrick Harris
    Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...

  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    Marko Germar
    Chelsie Hightower
    Samba "Cinema Italiano" (The Ron Fair Remix)—Kate Hudson
    Kate Hudson
    Kate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10...

    Jason Gilkison Safe
    Brandon Bryant
    Jordan Casanova
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Who You Are" (Live Acoustic Version)—Jessie J
    Jessie J
    Jessica Ellen Cornish , better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English recording artist currently signed to Island Records. She began her career as a songwriter for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. Her debut single, "Do It Like a Dude", was released in November 2010 and peaked...

    Dwight Rhoden
    Dwight Rhoden
    Dwight Rhoden is a choreographer and artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet who began dancing at the age of 17 while studying acting. He has performed with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz de Montréal and was a principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American...


    Desmond Richardson
    Desmond Richardson
    Desmond Richardson is co-founder and co-artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He has mastered a wide range of dance forms including classical, modern, and contemporary.- Life and career :...

    Bottom 4
    Comfort Fedoke
    Tadd Gadduang
    Hip-hop "Look at Me Now
    Look at Me Now (Chris Brown song)
    "Look at Me Now" is a "dirty south-inspired" hip hop song that features American rappers Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes. According to Chad Grischow from IGN, the song features "thumping bass, spacy synth and horn jam sounds." Electronic background mixes are also present in the song...

    "—Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne
    Lil Wayne
    Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...

     & Busta Rhymes
    Busta Rhymes
    Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...

    Chuck Maldonado Safe
    Mitchell Kelly
    Melody Lacayanga
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Take Off With Us" from All That Jazz
    All That Jazz
    All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his...

    Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    Eliminated
    Pasha Kovalev
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Argentine Tango
    Argentine Tango
    Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

    "Malajunta"—Orquesta Color Tango Miriam Larici
    Leonardo Barrionuevo
    Safe
    Stephen "tWitch" Boss
    Sasha Mallory
    Hip-hop "Misty Blue
    Misty Blue
    "Misty Blue" is a song written by Bob Montgomery in 1966 which has become a hit in the pop, C&W and soul fields through various versions, the most successful being the 1976 pop/soul hit by Dorothy Moore.-C&W hit versions:...

    "—Dorothy Moore
    Dorothy Moore
    Dorothy Moore is an American pop, R&B, and soul singer best known for her 1976 hit song, "Misty Blue".-Career:...

    Christopher Scott
    Christopher Scott (choreographer)
    Christopher Scott is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. Born on September 20, 1983 in Takoma Park Maryland.-Early life:Scott grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Hollywood, California, and entered the 9th grade at Hollywood High School. He applied...

    Safe
    Jess LeProtto
    Kathryn McCormick
    Contemporary "The Lonely
    The Lonely (Christina Perri song)
    "The Lonely" is a song by American singer-songwriter Christina Perri. The song was released to iTunes March 29, 2011, only to be followed by the release of the songs lyric-video the next day on Perri's YouTube account...

    "—Christina Perri
    Christina Perri
    Christina Judith Perri is an American singer and songwriter from Philadelphia. Her song "Jar of Hearts" charted in the United States after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. Rolling Stone named her the "Band of the Week" on October 26, 2010...

    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey is a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Emmy-nominated Tookey is best known for her frequent appearances as a Resident Choreographer and Guest Judge on the Canadian and American versions of the television show So You Think You Can Dance. Tookey served as...

    Safe
    Pasha Kovalev
    Melanie Moore
    Viennese Waltz
    Viennese Waltz
    Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.What is now called...

    "Everybody Hurts
    Everybody Hurts
    "Everybody Hurts" is a song by R.E.M., originally released on the band's 1992 album Automatic for the People and was also released as a single in 1993. It peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the UK Singles Chart and #3 on the French Singles Chart.-History:Much of the song was written by...

    "—Tina Arena
    Tina Arena
    Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...

    Jason Gilkison Safe
    Allison Holker
    Ricky Jaime
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Precious Things"—Tori Amos
    Tori Amos
    Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

    Tyce Diorio Bottom 4
    Clarice Ordaz
    Robert Roldan
    Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

    "Aila Re Aila" from Khatta Meetha
    Khatta Meetha
    Khatta Meetha is a 1978 Hindi movie directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film stars Ashok Kumar, Rakesh Roshan, Bindiya Goswami, Pearl Padamsee, David Abraham Cheulkar, Ranjit Chowdhry, Preeti Ganguly, Deven Verma, Pradeep Kumar and Iftekhar. The films music is by Rajesh Roshan...

    Nakul Dev Mahajan
    Nakul Dev Mahajan
    Nakul Dev Mahajan is an American Bollywood dancer and choreographer best known for his choreography on So You Think You Can Dance...

    Eliminated
  • Solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Sasha Mallory Contemporary "Syrup & Honey"—Duffy
    Duffy (singer)
    Aimée Ann Duffy , known as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold...

    Safe
    Jess LeProtto Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Come By Me"—Harry Connick, Jr.
    Harry Connick, Jr.
    Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American singer, big-band leader/conductor, pianist, actor, and composer. He has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with...

    Safe
    Melanie Moore Contemporary "You're the One That I Want
    You're the One That I Want
    "You're the One That I Want" is a song written by John Farrar for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease. It was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John....

    "—Angus & Julia Stone
    Angus & Julia Stone
    Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian brother-sister duo from Newport on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Forming in 2005, their parents are both musical and played as a folk duo before Angus and Julia were born. At very young ages, their father introduced them to music and encouraged them to join...

    Safe
    Ricky Jaime Contemporary "Daylight Breaks"—Cassidy Haley
    Cassidy Haley
    Cassidy Hugaert Haley is an American singer-songwriter and clothing designer based in Los Angeles.-Early Life and Careers:Haley was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in the nearby city of Richmond, California. He is the son of a lesbian mother and a gay father, and has three sisters and two...

    Bottom 4
    Clarice Ordaz Jazz "Royal T"—Crookers
    Crookers
    Crookers are an Italian DJ/production duo who have worked together since 2003. When the two artists met, both were trying to branch out of their genre and explore dance music. Their first collaboration worked...

     feat. Róisín Murphy
    Róisín Murphy
    Róisín Marie Murphy is an Irish singer-songwriter and record producer, known for her electronic style.Murphy first came to note as part of the electronic music duo Moloko. Her partner in the band was then-boyfriend Mark Brydon. After the two ended their romantic relationship, Murphy released her...

    Eliminated
    Mitchell Kelly Contemporary "This Time"—John Legend
    John Legend
    John Roger Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career...

    Eliminated
    Jordan Casanova Contemporary "Tonight"—Lykke Li
    Lykke Li
    Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson , better known by her stage name Lykke Li , is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her music often blends elements of pop, indie rock and electronic; various instruments can also be found in her songs, including violins, synthesizers, tambourines, trumpets, saxophones and cellos...

    Bottom 4
    Tadd Gadduang B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "Everything I Can't Have"—Robin Thicke
    Robin Thicke
    Robin Charles Thicke is an Award-winning American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor. Thicke's albums, which he previously released under the moniker Thicke, are noted for their feature of a predominantly R&B sound. Robin Thicke has penned hits for popular artists such as...

    Safe
    Caitlynn Lawson Contemporary "Cosmic Love
    Cosmic Love
    "Cosmic Love" is a song by Florence and the Machine, and the sixth single from the album Lungs. The single was released through Moshi Moshi Records on July 5, 2010 in the UK....

    "—Florence and the Machine
    Florence and the Machine
    Florence and the Machine is the recording name of English musician Florence Welch and a collaboration of other artists who provide music for her voice. Florence and the Machine's sound has been described as a combination of various genres, including rock and soul...

    Safe
    Marko Germar Jazz "More Than Anyone" (Stripped version)—Gavin DeGraw
    Gavin DeGraw
    Gavin Shane DeGraw is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is known for his songs "Chariot", "Follow Through", "I Don't Want to Be" , "In Love with a Girl", and "Not Over You".-Early life:DeGraw grew up in the Catskills in South Fallsburg,...

    Safe

Top 8 Perform (July 27, 2011)

  • Judges: Lady Gaga
    Lady GaGa
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

    , Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Rob Marshall
    Rob Marshall
    Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.-Life and career:Marshall was...

  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)
    Pasha Kovalev
    Sasha Mallory
    Quickstep
    Quickstep
    The quickstep is a light-hearted member of the standard ballroom dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. The upbeat melodies that quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events...

    "Puttin' On the Ritz
    Puttin' on the Ritz
    "Puttin' on the Ritz" is a popular song written and published in 1929 by Irving Berlin and introduced by Harry Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz . The title derives from the slang expression "putting on the Ritz," meaning to dress very fashionably. The expression was inspired by the...

    "—Terry Snyder
    Jonathan Roberts
    Jonathan Roberts (dancer)
    Jonathan Roberts is an American professional ballroom dancer. He decided to take up dancing after he received a free trial at a local dance studio and enjoyed it...

    Safe
    Ivan Koumaev
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Hip-hop "Let Me Love You
    Let Me Love You
    "Let Me Love You" is an R&B song by American recording artist Mario, from his second studio album Turning Point . It was co-written by Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith, and Scott Storch, who also produced it...

    "—Mario
    Marty Kudelka Bottom 4
    Ade Obayomi
    Jordan Casanova
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Nutbush City Limits
    Nutbush City Limits
    "Nutbush City Limits" is a semi-autobiographical rock and roll song written and originally performed by Tina Turner in which she commemorates her rural hometown of Nutbush, Tennessee. Released June 1973, shortly before her separation from then-husband and musical partner Ike Turner, "Nutbush City...

    "—Tina Turner
    Tina Turner
    Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

    Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    Eliminated
    Neil Haskell
    Melanie Moore
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Total Eclipse of the Heart
    Total Eclipse of the Heart
    "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a song written and produced by Jim Steinman and recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night...

    "—Bonnie Tyler
    Bonnie Tyler
    Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...

    Mandy Moore
    Mandy Moore (choreographer)
    Mandy Moore is an emerging contemporary, jazz choreographer and performer whose work has been seen on television, in film and on the concert stage. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2005 and again in 2011 for choreography performed on the television show So You Think You Can Dance.Moore was one of...

    Safe
    Anya Garnis
    Ricky Jaime
    Jive
    Jive (dance)
    In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...

    "River Deep, Mountain High"—Celine Dion
    Celine Dion
    Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

    Jason Gilkison
    Jason Gilkison
    Jason Gilkison is an Australian professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.- Dance career :Gilkison formed a professional partnership with Peta Roby in 1980 and were undefeated Australian Latin champions from 1981 to 1997....

    Safe
    Lauren Gottlieb
    Jess LeProtto
    Hip-hop "Take A Bow
    Take a Bow (Rihanna song)
    "Take a Bow" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, taken from the re-release, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded , of her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad . The song was written and produced by Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel Eriksen and Shaffer Smith, under their stage names Stargate and Ne-Yo...

    "—Rihanna
    Rihanna
    Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...

    Nappytabs Eliminated
    Lauren Froderman
    Tadd Gadduang
    Jazz "Another One Bites the Dust
    Another One Bites the Dust
    "Another One Bites the Dust" is a song by the English rock band Queen. Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group's eighth studio album The Game . The song was a worldwide hit, charting number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100, number two on the R&B charts and...

    "—Queen
    Queen (band)
    Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...

    Mandy Moore Bottom 4
    Allison Holker
    Marko Germar
    Contemporary "I Know It's Over"—Jeff Buckley
    Jeff Buckley
    Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...

    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Safe
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Tadd Gadduang
    Foxtrot "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"—Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...

    Jonathan Roberts Both Bottom 4
    Marko Germar
    Ricky Jaime
    Hip-hop "Bad Boy For Life"—Diddy
    Sean Combs
    Sean John Combs , also known by his stage names Diddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. He has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. He was originally...

     feat. Black Rob
    Black Rob
    Black Rob is a rapper who was formerly signed to Bad Boy Records.-Music career:Black Rob began associating with the label as early as 1996, appearing on the Bad Boy remix to 112's "Come See Me"...

     & Mark Curry
    Nappytabs Both Safe
    Jordan Casanova
    Jess LeProtto
    Rumba
    Rumba (dance)
    Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.In some contexts, "rumba" is used as shorthand for Afro-Cuban rumba, a group of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguancó...

    "Set Fire to the Rain
    Set Fire to the Rain
    "Set Fire to the Rain" is a song by English singer-songwriter Adele from her second studio album 21. Written by Adele and Fraser T. Smith and produced by Smith, the power ballad was released as the second single from the album in Europe. It was released as the third single in the United Kingdom on...

    "—Adele
    Adele (singer)
    Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...

    Jason Gilkison Both Eliminated
    Melanie Moore
    Sasha Mallory
    Jazz Game On—District 78 Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Both Safe

Top 6 Perform (August 3, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Lil' C
    Lil' C
    Christopher "Lil' C" Toler is an American dancer and choreographer best known as being one of the pioneers of the hip-hop dance style krumping and for his choreography and judging on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the krumping documentary Rize...

    , Christina Applegate
    Christina Applegate
    Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...

  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s) Result(s)

    Melanie Moore
    Hip-hop "Roman's Revenge
    Roman's Revenge
    "Roman's Revenge" is a song performed by Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj from her debut studio album Pink Friday. It was written by Minaj and rapper Eminem, who is also featured in the song, and was produced by Swizz Beatz. It was released exclusively on October 30, 2010 through the US iTunes store,...

    "—Nicki Minaj
    Nicki Minaj
    Onika Tanya Maraj , better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj; ), is a Trinidadian-born American recording artist...

     feat. Eminem
    Eminem
    Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...

    Nappytabs Safe
    Kent Boyd
    Sasha Mallory
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Fool of Me"—Meshell Ndegeocello Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    Safe
    Marko Germar
    Janette Manrara
    Paso Doble "Zorongo" (Traditional)—Antonia Gomez, Ely "La Gambita", Guillermo Basilisco & Paco Peña
    Paco Peña
    Paco Peña is a Spanish flamenco guitarist. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional Flamenco players.Born in Córdoba, Spain as Francisco Peña Pérez, Paco Peña began learning to play the guitar from his brother at age 6 and made his first professional appearance at 12...

    Dmitry Chaplin
    Dmitry Chaplin
    Dmitry Chaplin is an Russian dancer and an Emmy Nominated choreographer, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance . He was famous for constantly performing shirtless, with one solo routine having him rip off his shirt.-Biography:Chaplin was born in...

    Safe
    Tadd Gadduang
    Ellenore Scott
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "The Gulag Orkestar"—Beirut
    Beirut (band)
    Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zachary Francis Condon, and later expanded into a band. The band's first performances were in Wollaston, United Kingdom, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar...

    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Safe
    Jaimie Goodwin
    Ricky Jaime
    Contemporary "Inside These Lines"—Trent Dabbs
    Trent Dabbs
    Trent Dabbs is an American singer-songwriter who was raised in Jackson, but has been based in Nashville for his professional career. He co-founded the musical collective Ten Out of Tenn in 2005. Dabbs has released six solo albums and a self-titled collaboration album with Ashley Monroe since his...

    Dee Caspary Eliminated
    Pasha Kovalev
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Samba "Drop It Low" (District 78 remix)—Kat DeLuna
    Kat DeLuna
    Kathleen Emperatriz "Kat" DeLuna is an American pop singer of Dominican heritage. DeLuna has a soprano vocal range. Her debut single, "Whine Up", reached the top ten in Belgium and France, peaked inside the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her...

    Dmitry Chaplin Eliminated
    Ricky Jaime
    Sasha Mallory
    Waacking
    Waacking
    The Waacking style of street dance traces its roots back to gay and nightclub cultures. In the United States, at gay nightclubs, male performers dressed as women and performed to female songs on stage...

    "Schoolin' Life"—Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...

    Kumari Suraj Jaime eliminated
    Tadd Gadduang
    Melanie Moore
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" (Away Team Remix)—Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey
    Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...

    Spencer Liff Safe
    Marko Germar
    Caitlynn Lawson
    Lyrical Jazz "Heavy in Your Arms
    Heavy in Your Arms
    "Heavy in Your Arms" is a song by British act Florence and the Machine. Written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, the song was initially recorded and included on the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack, but later released as a single on 15 November 2010 in order to promote the re-release of...

    "—Florence and the Machine
    Florence and the Machine
    Florence and the Machine is the recording name of English musician Florence Welch and a collaboration of other artists who provide music for her voice. Florence and the Machine's sound has been described as a combination of various genres, including rock and soul...

    Sonya Tayeh Lawson eliminated

  • Solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Ricky Jaime Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "After Tonight"—Justin Nozuka
    Justin Nozuka
    Justin Tokimitsu Nozuka is a American-Canadian singer-songwriter. His debut album Holly has been released in Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States...

    Eliminated
    Caitlynn Lawson Contemporary "What's Love Got to Do with It"— Katie Thompson Eliminated
    Tadd Gadduang B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "We No Speak Americano
    We No Speak Americano
    "We No Speak Americano" is a song by Australian duo Yolanda Be Cool and producer DCUP. It was released on the independent Australian label Sweat It Out on 27 February 2010. The song samples the 1956 Italian song - although sung in Neapolitan language - "Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano" by Renato Carosone,...

    "—Yolanda Be Cool
    Yolanda Be Cool
    Yolanda Be Cool is an Australian band made up of Sylvester Martinez and Johnson "Durango Slim" Peterson. They collaborated with Australian producer DCUP to release an international single "We No Speak Americano" on the indie Australian label Sweat It Out they founded, sampling on a 1956...

     & DCUP
    DCUP
    Duncan MacLennan, better known by his stage name DCUP, is an Australian music producer, DJ and remixer. He is best known for his co-operation with fellow Australian duo Yolanda Be Cool on their international hit single "We No Speak Americano", which samples Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno's 1956...

    Safe
    Sasha Mallory Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Teeth"—Lady Gaga
    Lady GaGa
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

    Safe
    Marko Germar Contemporary "Wonderful World
    Wonderful World (James Morrison song)
    "Wonderful World" is the second single by British singer James Morrison. The song is the second to be released from his debut album, Undiscovered, which was released on July 31, 2006. The song peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart in October, following the CD single release...

     (Acoustic)"—James Morrison
    James Morrison (singer)
    James Morrison is a BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Rugby, Warwickshire. In 2006, his debut single "You Give Me Something" became a hit in Europe, Australia, and Japan, peaking in the top five in the UK and New Zealand. His debut album, Undiscovered, debuted at the...

    Safe
    Melanie Moore Jazz "Cracks" (Flux Pavilion Remix)—Freestylers
    Freestylers
    The Freestylers are a British electronic music group, generally fitting into the breakbeat genre. Recently their style has incorporated more of a drumstep sound, more in line with The Prodigy and other such artists.-Career:...

     feat. Belle Humble
    Safe

Top 4 Perform (August 10, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Katie Holmes
    Katie Holmes
    Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Her movie roles have included the blockbuster Batman Begins along with art house films such as The Ice Storm and thrillers...

    , Kenny Ortega
    Kenny Ortega
    Kenneth John "Kenny" Ortega is an American producer, director, and choreographer. He is known for directing the High School Musical trilogy and Michael Jackson's This Is It concert tour.-Life and career:...

  • Performances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer(s)
    Melanie Moore
    Marko Germar
    Disco
    Hustle (dance)
    The Hustle is a catchall name for several disco dances which were extremely popular in the 1970s. Today it mostly refers to the unique partner dance done in ballrooms and nightclubs to disco music. It has some features in common with swing dance. Its basic steps are somewhat similar to the...

    "I Feel Love
    I Feel Love
    "I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, taken from her 1977 concept album I Remember Yesterday.The song constituted the "future" segment of the album, which represented a stylistic progress through time...

    " (12" Version)—Donna Summer
    Donna Summer
    LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

    Doriana Sanchez
    Sasha Mallory
    Mark Kanemura
    Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Raise Your Weapon"—Deadmau5
    Deadmau5
    Joel Thomas Zimmerman , better known by his stage name deadmau5 , is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto...

    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    Joshua Allen
    Tadd Gadduang
    Hip-hop "Hustle Hard
    Hustle Hard
    Hustle Hard is the first official single off Ace Hood's third studio album Blood, Sweat & Tears. It originally appeared on Ace Hood's preceding mixtape The Statement. It is produced by Lex Luger. The official remix features Rick Ross and Lil Wayne. The original music video and half of the remix...

    "—Ace Hood
    Ace Hood
    Antoine McColister, better known by his stage name Ace Hood, is an American rapper. He is signed to DJ Khaled's label We the Best Music Group and Def Jam Recordings...

    Lil' C
    Lil' C
    Christopher "Lil' C" Toler is an American dancer and choreographer best known as being one of the pioneers of the hip-hop dance style krumping and for his choreography and judging on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the krumping documentary Rize...

    Melanie Moore
    Robert Roldan
    Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Sacrifice"—Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey
    Stacey Tookey is a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Emmy-nominated Tookey is best known for her frequent appearances as a Resident Choreographer and Guest Judge on the Canadian and American versions of the television show So You Think You Can Dance. Tookey served as...

    Sasha Mallory
    Marko Germar
    Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Whatever Lola Wants
    Whatever Lola Wants
    "Whatever Lola Wants" is a popular song, sometimes rendered as "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets". The music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the 1955 musical play Damn Yankees. The song is sung by Lola, the Devil's assistant, a part originated by Gwen Verdon, who reprised...

    "—Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...

    Spencer Liff
    Sasha Mallory
    Tadd Gadduang
    Cha-cha-cha
    Cha-cha-cha (dance)
    The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...

    "Raindrops
    Raindrops (Basement Jaxx song)
    "Raindrops" is a song by British electronic dance music duo Basement Jaxx. It was released on 22 June 2009 as the first single from their fifth studio album, Scars...

    "—Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

    Mark Ballas
    Mark Ballas
    Mark Alexander Ballas Jr. is an American dancer.Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program Dancing with the Stars. He began competing on the show in the fall of 2007. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography in 2011...

    Lauren Froderman
    Marko Germar
    Contemporary "Shirk"—Meshell Ndegeocello Tessandra Chavez
    Melanie Moore
    Tadd Gadduang
    Jazz "Show Me What You're Working With"—Sista Monica Ray Leeper
    Melanie Moore
    Sasha Mallory
    Contemporary "Heart Asks Pleasure First"—Ahn Trio
    Ahn Trio
    The Ahn Trio is a classical piano trio comprised of three sisters: Angella , Lucia and Maria . Lucia and Maria are twins. Born in Seoul, Korea, they moved to New York City in 1981 and began their training at the Juilliard School. The sisters decided to form a trio while they were earning their...

    Stacey Tookey
    Tadd Gadduang
    Marko Germar
    Stepping "B.O.B."—OutKast
    OutKast
    Outkast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, consisting of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin and Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. They were originally known as Two Shades Deep but later changed the group's name to OutKast...

    Chuck Maldonado

  • Solos:
    Dancer Style Music
    Melanie Moore Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Song for Viola"—Peter Bradley Adams
    Peter Bradley Adams
    Peter Bradley Adams is a folk-pop Americana singer-songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama.-History:Before embarking on his solo career in 2005, Adams was a founding member of the critically acclaimed folk/pop duo eastmountainsouth...

    Marko Germar Contemporary "The Fear You Won't Fall"—Joshua Radin
    Joshua Radin
    Joshua Radin is an American recording artist, songwriter and actor. He was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and is of Swedish, German, Polish, Russian, and Austrian descent. He studied drawing and painting at Northwestern University, following his college years with stints as an art...

    Tadd Gadduang B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "Mama Knows Best"—Jessie J
    Jessie J
    Jessica Ellen Cornish , better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English recording artist currently signed to Island Records. She began her career as a songwriter for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. Her debut single, "Do It Like a Dude", was released in November 2010 and peaked...

    Sasha Mallory Contemporary "Be Be Your Love"—Rachel Yamagata

Results show musical performances

Week Performer(s) Title Performance type
Week 1 (6/16/2011) Keri Hilson
Keri Hilson
Keri Lynn Hilson is an American R&B singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, Hilson began her music career as a songwriter, penning tracks for several artists in the mid-2000s as part of the five-person production and songwriting team, The Clutch...

 
"Lose Control" pre-recorded performance
Lady Gaga
Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

 
"The Edge of Glory
The Edge of Glory
"The Edge of Glory" is a song by American recording artist and songwriter Lady Gaga, from her second studio album Born This Way . The song was released digitally on May 9, 2011, and was added to the United States mainstream radio playlists on May 17, 2011...

"
music video world exclusive
Week 2 (6/23/2011) LMFAO
LMFAO (group)
LMFAO is an American electro pop duo consisting of rappers, producers, dancers, and DJs Redfoo and SkyBlu . The group formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Redfoo is SkyBlu's uncle. Redfoo is also the son of music mogul Berry Gordy, SkyBlu a grandson...

 
"Party Rock Anthem
Party Rock Anthem
"Party Rock Anthem" is a song performed by American electro recording duo LMFAO , featuring English singer Lauren Bennett and GoonRock. It was released as the first single from their second album Sorry for Party Rocking in 2011. It interpolates lyrics from Rick Ross' song "Hustlin"...

"
(dancing guests Quest Crew
Quest Crew
Quest Crew is an American hip-hop dance crew from Los Angeles, California who were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew...

)
pre-recorded performance
Week 4 (7/7/2011) Florence + the Machine  "Cosmic Love" pre-recorded performance
Week 5 (7/14/2011) Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....

 
"Right There
Right There
"Right There" is a song by American recording artist Nicole Scherzinger, taken from her debut studio album, Killer Love . Written by Ester Dean, Frank Romano, Daniel Morris and co-written and produced by Jim Jonsin, the Island-flavored midtempo pop song sees Scherzinger singing about her lover and...

"
pre-recorded performance
Week 6 (7/21/2011) Blush "Undivided" pre-recorded performance
Week 7 (7/28/2011) Lady Gaga "You and I"/"The Edge of Glory" pre-recorded performance
Week 8 (8/4/2011) Pia Toscano
Pia Toscano
Pia Ann Rose Toscano is an American singer from Howard Beach, New York. Toscano placed ninth on the tenth season of American Idol. Considered to be a frontrunner in the competition, her elimination came as a shock to judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Steven Tyler, all of whom were visibly...

 
"This Time
This Time (Pia Toscano song)
"This Time" is the debut single of American recording artist and American Idol season 10 finalist, Pia Toscano.-Promotion:The song was first performed on the American Idol tour in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 5, 2011. It was premiered on On Air with Ryan Seacrest on July 11, 2011 and digitally...

"
pre-recorded performance
Week 9 (8/11/2011) N/A N/A N/A

Week 1 (June 16, 2011)

  • Group dance: Top 20: "XR2"—M.I.A.
    M.I.A. (artist)
    Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A. , is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music. M.I.A...

     (Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    ;
    Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    )
  • Guest dancers: (Gopak; )
  • Bottom 3's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Mitchell Kelly Contemporary
    Contemporary
    Contemporary is a visual arts magazine, published every month. Founded and edited by Keith Spencer in 1992, it was originally called Contemporary Art...

    "Say"
    Say (song)
    "Say" is a song by John Mayer written for the Rob Reiner film The Bucket List in 2007. It was released as a single on November 20 and is the first commercial single in Mayer's career that was not originally released on one of his albums but added to the special edition re-release of his album...

    John Mayer
    John Mayer
    John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...

    Safe
    Jordan Casanova Commercial
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Hot Like Wow"—Nadia Oh
    Nadia Oh
    Nadia Oh is an English singer, rapper and producer. She was featured on Space Cowboy's 2007 single "My Egyptian Lover".-Hot Like Wow:Oh's debut album Hot Like Wow was produced by Space Cowboy and released in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2008 by Tiger Trax Records, with songs featured on the...

    Safe
    Tadd Gadduang Breakdance "Jump, Jive An' Wail"—The Brian Setzer Orchestra
    The Brian Setzer Orchestra
    The Brian Setzer Orchestra is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. The group had success covering Louis Prima's "Jump Jive an' Wail", which appeared on Prima's 1957 album The Wildest!...

    Safe
    Clarice Ordaz Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Glam"—Christina Aguilera
    Christina Aguilera
    Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

    Safe
    Jess LeProtto Broadway "Mr. Bojangles"
    Mr. Bojangles (song)
    Mr. Bojangles is the title of a song originally written and recorded by American country music artist Jerry Jeff Walker for his 1968 album of the same title...

    Robbie Williams
    Robbie Williams
    Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

    Safe
    Miranda Maleski Contemporary "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
    "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who was later to become his wife. At the time the couple were lovers, although MacColl was married to someone else. MacColl and Seeger included the song in their...

    "—Leona Lewis
    Leona Lewis
    Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....

    Safe
    Robert Taylor Jr. Hip-Hop "Electric"—Omarion
    Omarion
    Omari Ishmael Grandberry better known as Omarion, is an American R&B singer, actor, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and former lead singer of the R&B group, B2K. Omarion was spotted at a young age by a manager, Christopher B. Stokes, who took a liking to his vocal abilities...

    Safe

  • Eliminated:
    • No one was eliminated.
  • New partners:
    • None

Week 2 (June 23, 2011)

  • Group dance: "Sinnerman"—Nina Simone
    Nina Simone
    Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

     (Hip-hop;
    Choreographer: Dave Scott
    Dave Scott (choreographer)
    Dave Scott is an American hip-hop dance teacher, choreographer, and talent developer. He gained widespread success from his choreography in movies primarily the 2004 dance film You Got Served. He has since expanded to choreographing for television and teaching at dance conventions. In 2004, Scott...

    )
  • Guest dancers: Quest Crew
    Quest Crew
    Quest Crew is an American hip-hop dance crew from Los Angeles, California who were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew...

  • Bottom 3's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Wadi Jones B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "Pon de Floor
    Pon de Floor
    "Pon de Floor" is a song by Major Lazer, which is made up of Diplo and Switch. It was released in 2009 by Mad Decent and Downtown Records as the second single from Major Lazer's first studio album, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do . The duo wrote the song and produced it with Afrojack, while...

    "—Major Lazer
    Major Lazer
    Major Lazer is a collaborative musical project from DJ/Producers Diplo and Switch.-Background:Made up of DJs Diplo and Switch, the two were introduced after working with M.I.A.. The duo's first album Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do was released on June 16, 2009, on Downtown Records. It was...

     feat. Vybz Kartel
    Vybz Kartel
    Adidja Palmer , better known as Vybz Kartel, is a Jamaican dancehall artist, songwriter and businessman. He has many nicknames, including Addi Teacher and Gaza Emperor.-Biography:...

    Eliminated
    Missy Morelli Jazz "Move" (Metronomy
    Metronomy
    Metronomy are an electronic music group formed by Joseph Mount in Totnes, Devon, England in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount , Anna Prior , Oscar Cash and Gbenga Adelekan...

     Remix)—CSS
    Eliminated
    Nick Young Tap
    Tap dance
    Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...

    "Follow Me Down
    Follow Me Down
    "Follow Me Down" is a song by American group 3OH!3 featuring English artist Neon Hitch.- Chart performance :It debuted at #89 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #36 on the Canadian Hot 100, and has since re-entered at #89 on the Hot 100...

    "—3OH!3
    3OH!3
    3OH!3 is an American electro hop duo from Boulder, Colorado, made up of Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte. They are best known for their single "Don't Trust Me" from their album Want, which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100...

     feat. Neon Hitch
    Neon Hitch
    Neon Hitch is a British singer and songwriter. She was signed to Mike Skinner and Ted Mayhem's label, The Beats, before it closed down. She was later discovered on MySpace by Benny Blanco who flew her to New York to work with him. Their work together earned her a music publishing deal with EMI and...

    Eliminated
    Iveta Lukosiute Samba "Samba Rock"—Gennaro Eliminated
    Ricky Jaime Contemporary "Riot Rhythm"—Sleigh Bells
    Sleigh Bells
    Sleigh Bells is an American noise pop music duo. The group released their debut album, Treats, on May 11, 2010.-History:Based in Brooklyn, New York, Sleigh Bells is composed of Derek E. Miller and Alexis Krauss...

    Safe
    Ryan Ramirez Contemporary "Moving Mountains
    Moving Mountains (song)
    "Moving Mountains" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Usher. It was released on May 23, 2008, as the third single from his fifth studio album, Here I Stand. It was written by Usher with Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Kuk Harrell and The-Dream, and was produced by Stewart and The-Dream....

    "—Usher
    Usher (entertainer)
    Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...

    Safe

  • NOTE:
    • Four contestants were eliminated because no one was voted off in Week 1.

Week 3 (June 30, 2011)

  • Group dance: "The Incredits" from The Incredibles
    The Incredibles
    The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...

     (Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    ;
    Choreographer: Michael Rooney)
  • Guest dancers:
  • AXIS Dance Company
    AXIS Dance Company
    AXIS Dance Company is a professional physically integrated contemporary dance company and dance education organization founded in 1987 and based in Oakland, California. It is one of the first contemporary dance companies in the world to consciously develop choreography that integrates dancers with...

     ("Partita for Violin No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona"—Janine Jansen
    Janine Jansen
    Janine Jansen is a violinist. She began to study the violin at age 6. Her father and both her brothers are also musicians. Her mother is a classical singer and is a sister of the bass Peter Kooy...

    ; Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    ;
    Choreographer: Alex Ketley)
  • Eric Luna and Georgia Ambarian ("Calypso" from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; Ballroom
    Ballroom dance
    Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television....

    )
  • Bottom 3's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Ashley Rich Contemporary "For You"—David Ryan Harris
    David Ryan Harris
    David Ryan Harris is an Atlanta, Georgia based singer-songwriter. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Harris moved to Atlanta at a young age. Harris has had a varied career as a musician. He is married and has 4 sons: Miles, Life, River, and Truman.-Influences:...

    Safe
    Chris Koehl Hip-hop "You're Gonna Make It"—KJ-52
    KJ-52
    KJ-52 is a Christian rapper from Tampa, Florida. The "KJ" part of his name refers to his old rap alias, "King J...

     feat. Blanca Reyes
    Safe
    Miranda Maleski Contemporary "Unthinkable"—Maria Zouroudis Eliminated
    Robert Taylor, Jr. Hip-hop "I Don't Need It
    I Don't Need It
    "I Don't Need It" is a song performed by R&B singer Jamie Foxx from his third studio album, Intuition. It was featured by Timbaland. The song was released as a radio-only single in May 2009.-Single release and chart performance:...

    "—Jamie Foxx
    Jamie Foxx
    Eric Marlon Bishop , professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a...

    Eliminated
    Caitlynn Lawson Contemporary "It Doesn't Hurt" (Live version)—Katie Thompson Safe
    Mitchell Kelly Contemporary "Rolling in the Deep
    Rolling in the Deep
    "Rolling in the Deep" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Adele for her second studio album, 21. The song was written by Paul Epworth and Adele, who described it as a "dark blues-y gospel disco tune". It was first released on 29 November 2010 as the lead single of the album.The song has...

    "—Adele
    Adele (singer)
    Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...

    Safe

Week 4 (July 7, 2011)

  • Group dance: "Kata Kata" from Raavan
    Raavan
    Raavan is a 2010 Hindi film directed, written and produced by Mani Ratnam. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani feature in key supporting roles...

     (Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

    ;
    Choreographer: Nakul Dev Mahajan
    Nakul Dev Mahajan
    Nakul Dev Mahajan is an American Bollywood dancer and choreographer best known for his choreography on So You Think You Can Dance...

    )
  • Guest dancers: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
    Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
    Cedar Lake is a New York City-based contemporary ballet company dedicated to the continued development of dance by providing choreographers a comprehensive environment for creation as well as curating work for presentation to a worldwide audience...

     ("Ends"—Mikael Karlsson)
  • Bottom 3's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Ashley Rich Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Lovely"—John West feat. Pusha T
    Pusha T
    Terrence Thornton better known by his stage name Pusha T is an American recording artist, occasional actor and one half of the critically acclaimed hip hop duo Clipse. He is also the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Re-Up Records along with his brother Gene 'Malice' Thornton...

    Eliminated
    Chris Koehl Hip-hop "Scars
    Scars (Basement Jaxx album)
    Scars is the fifth studio album by British electronic dance music duo Basement Jaxx, released on 21 September 2009. It was preceded by the first single "Raindrops", released on 21 June, while the second single, "Feelings Gone", was also released in the United Kingdom on 21 September...

    "—Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

     feat. Kelis
    Kelis
    Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

    , Meleka
    Meleka
    Meleka is a singer/songwriter who first came to public attention after winning the annual talent competition HUGO Urban Rules in 2008. The event saw her performing for music industry experts and stars Estelle and ex-Mystique singer Sabrina Washington...

     and Chipmunk
    Chipmunk (rapper)
    Jahmaal Noel Fyffe known by his stage name Chipmunk, is a British hip hop rapper and songwriter from Tottenham, London....

    Eliminated
    Jordan Casanova Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Commander
    Commander (song)
    "Commander" is a song performed by American recording artist Kelly Rowland from her third studio album, Here I Am . It serves as the project's international lead single and her debut release with Universal Motown...

    "—Kelly Rowland
    Kelly Rowland
    Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...

     feat. David Guetta
    David Guetta
    Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

    Safe
    Tadd Gadduang B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "1-2-3 (Remix)"—Gloria Estefan
    Gloria Estefan
    Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

    Safe
    Ryan Ramirez Contemporary "Adagio for Strings"—Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
    Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
    Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra based in Brno, the Czech Republic. Its predecessor was the Czech Symphony Orchestra, dating from the 1870's. The current Brno Philharmonic was formed in 1956 with the merger of the Radio Orchestra and the Brno Region Symphony Orchestra, with Břetislav...

    Safe
    Ricky Jaime Contemporary "When You Say My Name"—Mario Spinetti Safe

Week 5 (July 14, 2011)

  • Group dance: "El Fuego" by Sean Peter feat. Oscar Jimenez (Flamenco-Jazz; Choreographer: Kelley Abbey
    Kelley Abbey
    Kelley Abbey is an Australian actress, choreographer, singer and dancer. She has been a leading performer and choreographer in TV, film and musical theatre for more than 20 years....

    )
  • Guest dancers: Jason Samuels Smith & Anybody Can Get It
    Jason Samuels Smith
    Jason Samuels Smith is an American tap dance performer, choreographer, and director.-Biography:Jason Samuels Smith, a native New Yorker, was born on October 4, 1980 to professional performing arts parents Sue Samuels and JoJo Smith...

     - "Move The Crowd (Sole Sessions Pt. 1)"
  • Bottom 3's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Caitlynn Lawson Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "The Edge of Glory
    The Edge of Glory
    "The Edge of Glory" is a song by American recording artist and songwriter Lady Gaga, from her second studio album Born This Way . The song was released digitally on May 9, 2011, and was added to the United States mainstream radio playlists on May 17, 2011...

    "—Lady Gaga
    Lady GaGa
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

    Safe
    Mitchell Kelly Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Ra"—Nathan Lanier Safe
    Ryan Ramirez Jazz 101
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Not in Love"—Crystal Castles
    Crystal Castles (band)
    Crystal Castles are an experimental electronic band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of producer Ethan Kath and lyricist and vocalist Alice Glass. Crystal Castles are known for their chaotic live shows and their lo-fi home productions. The duo released many limited EPs between 2006 and...

     feat. Robert Smith
    Robert Smith (musician)
    Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...

    Eliminated
    Ricky Jaime Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Body Language"—Queen
    Queen (band)
    Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...

    Safe
    Sasha Mallory Modern
    Modern dance
    Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance.-Intro:...

    "Thinkin' About Your Body"—Bobby McFerrin
    Bobby McFerrin
    Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...

    Safe
    Alexander Fost Ballet
    Ballet
    Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

    "Palladio"—Escala
    Escala (group)
    Escala is an electronic string quartet, from London, England who rose to fame when they performed on and reached the final of the second series of Britain's Got Talent on ITV1 in May 2008.- Background :...

    Eliminated

Week 6 (July 21, 2011)

  • Group dance: "Act One: On Broadway" from Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber & Stoller (Broadway; Choreographer: Josh Bergasse)
  • Guest dancers: Daniil Simkni from The American Ballet Theater ("Les Bourgeois
    Les Bourgeois
    Les Bourgeois is Jacques Brel's sixth studio album. Also known as Jacques Brel, the album was released in April 1962 by Barclay Records...

    "—Jacques Brel
    Jacques Brel
    Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

    ; Ballet
    Ballet
    Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

    )
  • Bottom 4's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Clarice Ordaz Jazz "Royal T Crookers feat Roisin Murphy" Eliminated
    Mitchell Kelly Contemporary "Time & Space"—The Cinematic Orchestra
    The Cinematic Orchestra
    The Cinematic Orchestra is a British jazz and electronic outfit, created in 1997 by Jason Swinscoe. The band is signed to Ninja Tune independent record label. In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes PC former DJ Food member on turntables, Luke Flowers , Tom Chant , Nick Ramm , Stuart McCallum ...

    Eliminated
    Jordan Casanova Contemporary "Tonight"—Lykke Li
    Lykke Li
    Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson , better known by her stage name Lykke Li , is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her music often blends elements of pop, indie rock and electronic; various instruments can also be found in her songs, including violins, synthesizers, tambourines, trumpets, saxophones and cellos...

    Safe
    Ricky Jamie Contemporary "Battle for the Beat"—District 78 Safe

Week 7 (July 28, 2011)

  • Group dance: "The Circus Sets Up" from Water for Elephants
    Water for Elephants (film)
    Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama film based on Sara Gruen's novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence, from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese...

     (Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    ;
    Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    )
  • Guest dancers: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers ("Bernini's Angels"—Kerry Muzzey; Choreographers:Christopher Scott and Galen Hooks)
  • Bottom 4's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Jordan Casanova Jazz-Funk
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "S&M
    S&M (song)
    "S&M" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, taken from her fifth studio album, Loud . The song was written by Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Corey Jackson Carter, Sandy Wilhelm and Ester Dean, with production helmed by Eriksen and Hermansen of Stargate and Sandy Wilhelm under her...

    "—Rihanna
    Rihanna
    Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...

    Eliminated
    Jess LeProtto Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

    "Mack the Knife
    Mack the Knife
    "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the...

    "—Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...

    Eliminated
    Caitlynn Lawson Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "What Turns You On"—Katie Thompson Safe
    Tadd Gadduang B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "Jump in the Line"—Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
    Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

    Safe

Week 8 (August 4, 2011)

  • Group dance: "Grown Unknown"—Lia Ices (Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    ;
    Choreographer: Justin Giles)
  • Guest dancers:
  • Kent Boyd and Lauren Froderman: "Collide"—Howie Day
    Howie Day
    Howard Kern "Howie" Day is an American singer-songwriter. Beginning his career as a solo artist in the late 1990s, Day became known for his extensive touring and in-concert use of samplers and effects pedals in order to accompany himself...

     (Contemporary;
    Choreographer: Travis Wall
    Travis Wall
    Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

    )
  • Bad Boys of Dance: "Derezzed" from Tron: Legacy (Choreographer: Rasta Thomas
    Rasta Thomas
    Rasta Kuzma Ramacandra was born on July 18, 1981 in San Francisco and is a dancer, martial artist, gymnast and choreographer.-Early life:Rasta Thomas was raised in Washington, DC...

    )
  • Top 6's solos:
    Dancer Style Music Result
    Sasha Mallory Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "We Gonna Win"—Miri Ben-Ari
    Miri Ben-Ari
    Miri Ben-Ari is an Israeli violinist, who currently resides in the United States.Ben-Ari grew up playing classical music; she started training at age 5 and at age 12, she was presented with a violin by Isaac Stern. During her mandatory Israeli military service, she was chosen to play for the...

     feat. Styles P.
    Safe
    Caitlynn Lawson Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "Touch
    Touch (Natasha Bedingfield song)
    "Touch" is a song performed by British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. The song written by Bedingfield, Julian Bunetta and Steve Kipner was released to the U.S. iTunes store on 18 May 2010 as the lead single from her upcoming studio album, Strip Me, which came out in late 2010. The song was...

    "—Natasha Bedingfield
    Natasha Bedingfield
    Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...

    Eliminated
    Melanie Moore Contemporary "My Love"—Sia Furler
    Sia Furler
    Sia Kate Isobelle Furler or simply Sia, is an Australian pop, downtempo, and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000, her single, "Taken for Granted" was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album, Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard 200...

    Safe
    Tadd Gadduang B-boying
    B-boying
    B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes...

    "Only So Much Oil in the Ground"—Tower of Power
    Tower of Power
    Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...

    Safe
    Marko Germar Contemporary "You Give Me Something" (Acoustic)—James Morrison
    James Morrison (singer)
    James Morrison is a BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Rugby, Warwickshire. In 2006, his debut single "You Give Me Something" became a hit in Europe, Australia, and Japan, peaking in the top five in the UK and New Zealand. His debut album, Undiscovered, debuted at the...

    Safe
    Ricky Jaime Contemporary "Requiem for a Tower
    Requiem for a Tower
    "Requiem for a Tower" is a version of Clint Mansell's Lux Æterna/Requiem For A Dream, re-orchestrated with a choir and full orchestra for a The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers theatrical trailer...

    "—London Music Works & Clint Mansell
    Clint Mansell
    Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell, is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer and guitarist of the band Pop Will Eat Itself....

    Eliminated

Finale (August 11, 2011)

  • Judges: Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe
    Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

    , Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (choreographer)
    Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

    , Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor who portrays Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. Previously he played the role of Richie Velch in the CBS sitcom The Class. He is openly gay.-Life and career:...

    , Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    , Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    , Robin Antin
    Robin Antin
    Robin Antin is an American dancer, choreographer, music video director, actress, showgirl, clothing designer and entrepreneur. In 1995 in Los Angeles Antin, Christina Applegate and Carla Kama founded the modern burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls...

    , Lil' C
    Lil' C
    Christopher "Lil' C" Toler is an American dancer and choreographer best known as being one of the pioneers of the hip-hop dance style krumping and for his choreography and judging on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the krumping documentary Rize...

  • Group dances:
    Dancers Style Music Choreographer Chosen by
    Top 20 Jazz
    Jazz dance
    Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

    "Wanna Get Hype"—District 78 Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh
    Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

    N/A
    Top 8 Contemporary
    Contemporary dance
    Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

    "The Circus Sets Up" from Water for Elephants
    Water for Elephants (film)
    Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama film based on Sara Gruen's novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence, from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese...


    (taped from broadcast of 28 July)
    Tyce Diorio
    Tyce Diorio
    Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

    Cat Deeley
    Cat Deeley
    Catherine Elizabeth "Cat" Deeley is an English television presenter and model. Since 2006, Deeley has also been the host of So You Think You Can Dance in the United States, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition...

    Matt Flint

    Nick Young
    Tap
    Tap dance
    Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...

    "Can't Buy Me Love
    Can't Buy Me Love
    "Can't Buy Me Love" is a song composed by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on the A-side of their sixth British single, "Can't Buy Me Love"/"You Can't Do That".-Interpretation:...

    "—Michael Bublé
    Michael Bublé
    Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer. He has won several awards, including three Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found worldwide commercial success with his 2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible was...

    Matt Flint

    Nick Young
    N/A
    Top 10 girls Jazz "Pop Drop & Roll"—Chonique Sneed & Lisette Bustamante Sonya Tayeh Tyce Diorio
    Top 10 guys Hip-hop "Velocity"—Nathan Lainer Christopher Scott
    Christopher Scott (choreographer)
    Christopher Scott is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. Born on September 20, 1983 in Takoma Park Maryland.-Early life:Scott grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Hollywood, California, and entered the 9th grade at Hollywood High School. He applied...

    Sonya Tayeh


Matt Flint is the winner of So You Think You Can Dance UK
So You Think You Can Dance (UK series 2)
The 2nd series of So You Think You Can Dance began on 26 March 2011 and ended on 11 June 2011, the show hosted auditions in Manchester on 17 October 2010, Glasgow on 19 October 2010 and London on 21 and 22 of October, according to the BBC website, contestants could also audition in Cardiff and...

s second season, and this performance comprised a portion of his prize package.

Judges' picks
Dancers Style Music Choreographer Chosen by
Sasha Mallory
Kent Boyd
Contemporary
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

"Fool Of Me"—Meshell Ndegeocello Tyce Diorio
Tyce Diorio
Keith "Tyce" Diorio is an American dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the Fox television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin...

Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy (choreographer)
Mary Ann Murphy is a ballroom dance champion, accredited dance judge, and a judge and choreographer on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...

Melanie Moore
Marko Germar
Hip-hop "I Got You
I Got You (Leona Lewis song)
"I Got You" is a pop song performed by British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis. It was written by Arnthor Birgisson, Max Martin and Savan Kotecha, and produced by Birgisson. It is featured on Lewis' second studio album, Echo . "I Got You" was released on 21 February, 2010, in the United Kingdom as...

"—Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....

Nappytabs Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

Tadd Gadduang
Lauren Froderman
Jazz
Jazz dance
Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

"Another One Bites The Dust
Another One Bites the Dust
"Another One Bites the Dust" is a song by the English rock band Queen. Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group's eighth studio album The Game . The song was a worldwide hit, charting number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100, number two on the R&B charts and...

"—Queen
Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore (choreographer)
Mandy Moore is an emerging contemporary, jazz choreographer and performer whose work has been seen on television, in film and on the concert stage. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2005 and again in 2011 for choreography performed on the television show So You Think You Can Dance.Moore was one of...

Robin Antin
Robin Antin
Robin Antin is an American dancer, choreographer, music video director, actress, showgirl, clothing designer and entrepreneur. In 1995 in Los Angeles Antin, Christina Applegate and Carla Kama founded the modern burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls...

Miranda Maleski
Robert Taylor, Jr.
Hip-hop "Break Ya Neck
Break Ya Neck
"Break Ya Neck" is the first single by American rapper Busta Rhymes, from his fifth album Genesis . The song was produced by Dr. Dre and Scott Storch. Truth Hurts provides background vocals. The song contains an interpolation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Give It Away"...

"—Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...

Nappytabs Lil' C
Lil' C
Christopher "Lil' C" Toler is an American dancer and choreographer best known as being one of the pioneers of the hip-hop dance style krumping and for his choreography and judging on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the krumping documentary Rize...

Melanie Moore
Neil Haskell
Contemporary "Total Eclipse of the Heart
Total Eclipse of the Heart
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a song written and produced by Jim Steinman and recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night...

"—Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...

Mandy Moore Mary Murphy
Marko Germar
Allison Holker
Contemporary "I Know It's Over"—Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...

Sonya Tayeh
Sonya Tayeh
Sonya Tayeh is an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan Tayeh started dancing in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 2002...

Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor who portrays Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. Previously he played the role of Richie Velch in the CBS sitcom The Class. He is openly gay.-Life and career:...

Ashley Rich
Chris Koehl
Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

"Please, Mister Jailer"—Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet is an American singer, television writer and actress.-Biography:After beginning her singing career at the age of three, when she won an electric garage door opener in a singing contest, she began recording commercials at the age of six, toured with Mickey Rooney, and performed in Las...

Spencer Liff Lil' C
Sasha Mallory
Stephen "tWitch" Boss
Hip-hop "Misty Blue
Misty Blue
"Misty Blue" is a song written by Bob Montgomery in 1966 which has become a hit in the pop, C&W and soul fields through various versions, the most successful being the 1976 pop/soul hit by Dorothy Moore.-C&W hit versions:...

"—Dorothy Moore
Dorothy Moore
Dorothy Moore is an American pop, R&B, and soul singer best known for her 1976 hit song, "Misty Blue".-Career:...

Christopher Scott
Christopher Scott (choreographer)
Christopher Scott is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. Born on September 20, 1983 in Takoma Park Maryland.-Early life:Scott grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Hollywood, California, and entered the 9th grade at Hollywood High School. He applied...

Nigel Lythgoe
Caitlynn Lawson
Pasha Kovalev
Argentine Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

"Malajunta"—Orquesta Color Tango
(taped from broadcast of 20 July)
Miriam Larici
Leonardo Barrionuevo
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Melanie Moore
Marko Germar
Contemporary "Turn to Stone"—Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Scrubs, Bones, Grey's Anatomy The Big C and One Tree Hill, as well as in Old Navy's Fall 2007 Fair Isle and Opel's/Vauxhall's...

Travis Wall
Travis Wall
Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

Mary Murphy
Melanie Moore
Sasha Mallory
Jazz Game On—District 78 Sonya Tayeh Nigel Lythgoe

All-Stars Dance Pool

As opposed to last season
So You Think You Can Dance (season 7)
So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season seven premiered on May 27, 2010...

, there is no set group of All-Star dancers. Rather, All-Stars will be changing weekly based on availability. On the July 14, 2011 results show, Lythgoe announced that Season 7 contestant Alex Wong—forced to withdraw after tearing an Achilles tendon
Achilles tendon
The Achilles tendon , also known as the calcaneal tendon or the tendo calcaneus, is a tendon of the posterior leg. It serves to attach the plantaris, gastrocnemius and soleus muscles to the calcaneus bone.- Anatomy :The Achilles is the tendonous extension of 3 muscles in the lower leg:...

—was asked to be an All-Star for Top 10 week, but that Wong tore his other Achilles tendon at an audition the Saturday prior and thus would not be able to participate.
All-Stars, Contestant Partners, and Results
Dancer Season Dance Styles Original Placement Partner
Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9
Melody Lacayanga
Melody Lacayanga
Melody Lacayanga is a Filipino American dancer from Daly City, California. She was the runner-up in Season 1 of FOX's So You Think You Can Dance. One of her close friends, Nick Lazzarini, was named the winner....

1
So You Think You Can Dance (Season 1)
So You Think You Can Dance, also known as SYTYCD is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season one premiered on July 20, 2005 with Lauren Sánchez as host, Nigel Lythgoe as the main judge, and Mary Murphy, Dan Karaty, Mia...

Contemporary/Jazz Runner-up Mitchell
Ivan Koumaev
Ivan Koumaev
Ivan Koumaev is an American dancer.Koumaev was born in Khabarovsk, Siberia, Russia and moved to Mill Creek, Washington when he was seven years old. He started dancing at age 11, after watching the film Breakin....

2
So You Think You Can Dance (Season 2)
The second season of So You Think You Can Dance premiered May 25, 2006, with new host Cat Deeley.On August 16, Benji Schwimmer was announced as the winner of season 2 and received the grand prize of $100,000, a new hybrid SUV, and a one year contract with Celine Dion's Las Vegas show, A New...

Hip Hop Top 6 Caitlynn
Allison Holker
Allison Holker
Allison Renae Holker is an American dancer. Most famously known from her appearances on the TV Show So You Think You Can Dance, where she was a contestant in season 2 and an all-star in season 7, Holker is also credited with a wide variety of work in film, television and concert tours.Holker was...

Contemporary/Jazz Top 8 Ricky Marko
Neil Haskell
Neil Haskell
Neil David Haskell is an American contemporary dancer. He is best known as a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance where he finished third in the final four. On April 22, 2008, he began performing in the Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz as Luke. Neil most recently joined The West Side Story...

3
So You Think You Can Dance (Season 3)
So You Think You Can Dance is an American television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox network. Season three premiered May 24, 2007....

Contemporary/Jazz 3rd Place Melanie
Lauren Gottlieb Top 6 Jess
Pasha Kovalev
Pasha Kovalev
Pavel Kovalev is a professional Latin and ballroom dancer. Born and raised in Siberia, Pasha Kovalev started dancing at age eight...

Ballroom/Latin Top 6 Caitlynn Melanie Sasha Caitlynn
Jaimie Goodwin Contemporary/Jazz Top 10 Ricky
Anya Garnis Ballroom/Latin Top 12 Ricky
Joshua Allen
Joshua Allen
Joshua Allen is the winner of the fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance. He had originally auditioned in Dallas, Texas with his friend and fellow contestant, Comfort Fedoke. Allen was announced winner of the show on August 7, 2008, winning $250,000.-Early life:Allen was born in Fort Worth,...

4
So You Think You Can Dance (Season 4)
So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season four premiered on May 22, 2008, with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy returning as permanent judges and Cat Deeley returning to host...

Hip-Hop Winner Tadd
Popping/Locking/Krump Runner-up Sasha Melanie
Chelsie Hightower
Chelsie Hightower
Chelsie Hightower is a Latin ballroom dancer, who is best known for being a regular dance partner, trainer, and choreographer on the ABC competition show Dancing with the Stars.-Biography:...

Ballroom/Latin Top 6 Marko
Mark Kanemura Contemporary/Jazz Top 6 Sasha
Comfort Fedoke Hip Hop/Krump Top 8 Tadd
Brandon Bryant
5
So You Think You Can Dance (season 5)
So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season five premiered on May 21, 2009, with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy returning as permanent judges and Cat Deeley returning to host...

Contemporary/Jazz Runner-up Jordan
Ade Obayomi Contemporary/Jazz Top 6 Jordan
Janette Manrara Ballroom/Latin Top 8 Marko
Kathryn McCormick
6
So You Think You Can Dance (season 6)
So You Think You Can Dance, also known as SYTYCD, is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season six premiered on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy returning as permanent judges and Cat Deeley...

Contemporary/Jazz 3rd Place Jess
Ellenore Scott Contemporary/Jazz 4th Place Tadd
Lauren Froderman
7
So You Think You Can Dance (season 7)
So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season seven premiered on May 27, 2010...

Contemporary/Jazz Winner Tadd Marko
Kent Boyd Contemporary/Jazz Runner-up Sasha
Robert Roldan Contemporary/Jazz 3rd Place Clarice Melanie

This dancer was eliminated this week.
This dancer was in the bottom 4 this week.
This All-Star did not perform this week.
This dancer placed second in the competition.
This dancer won the competition.
All-Stars in bold text won the competition in their season.
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