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"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: The First Cut Is the Deepest

They say the first cut is the deepest, and surely “they” are people who have been watching “So You Think You Can Dance” for 16 seasons. Because while the cuts actually get a little more emotional as the season goes on—come on, we get attached!—the first round of cuts always feels particularly cruel. These dancers […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: The Live Shows Begin!

We did it! We made it to the live competition shows! The “we” in question, of course, being the viewers and voters at home, the four hardworking judges, and—yay!—the Season 16 Top 10. Last night, the top five guys and the top five women took to the “So You Think You Can Dance” live stage […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: Meet Your Main Men

We almost don’t dare to say it, but after last night’s final, final, final Season 16 audition round, it appears to be true: Next week, IT’S TIME FOR THE LIVE SHOWS! We’re getting ahead of ourselves, though. First, we (as in Nigel, Mary, Dominic, and Laurieann) had to whittle down the top guys. Remember last […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: Meet Your Leading Ladies

Well, unless Nigel Lythgoe (sir!) has something wild and crazy up his sleeves—which he very well may after 16 seasons—it is finally, at very long last, after half a summer and so much patience, almost time to meet the “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 16 Top 10. Yeah, we’re not there quite yet. […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: Meet Your Top 20

Last night, “So You Think You Can Dance” gave us The Academy, Part II—which concluded with the judges choosing their Top 10 guys and Top 10 girls. But before that reveal, we got a little more contemporary, a whole lotta Mandy Moore, some solos, and, as always plenty of drama. “The Academy scares the h— […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: Let The Academy Begin!

“Welcome to the real world, kids.” —Laurieann Gibson, Disher of Hard Truths But seriously! Welcome to The Academy, that magical/terrible place where choreography comes hard and fast, meltdowns are par for the course, someone is bound to get injured, and the cuts are absolutely brutal—every. single. time. After approximately 14 million weeks of individual auditions, […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: The End of Auditions!

To quote old-lady Rose Dawson from Titanic: OK, so maybe it hasn’t really been a full 84 years since Season 16 of “So You Think You Can Dance” first graced our screens. But it kinda feels like it, right? The entire summer so far has been dedicated to auditions! Along the way—five episodes, not 84 […]

"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: The Auditions Continue

It’s usually right around the third or fourth week of “So You Think You Can Dance” audition rounds that we start itching for the live shows. Sure, the auditions are fun, inspiring, and entertaining, but at a certain point, we reach audition saturation. (And the live shows are just so good and feature so much […]