So You Think You Can Dance 12 Preview – What to Expect

Additionally, there is a significant new twist, that will pit the “street” dancers against the “stage” dancers. Nigel explained to  Yahoo TV how it will work!

• No more choreography rounds in the individual audition cities. Either the dancers are sent to Vegas…or they go home.
• Choreography rounds take place during the Vegas rounds, as usual. The stage and street groups will continue to dance in their genre until the Top 10.
• Stage dance encompasses ballroom, tap, contemporary–styles that require formal training. Street dance breaks down into the different hip-hop genres, street salsa, street tap, street tango etc.
• One stage and one street dancer will leave each week. Eliminations won’t be based on gender.
• The finale will be two stage and two street dancers.  Again, gender will not be a factor.
• Travis Wall will mentor the stage dancers, tWitch the street side. Because of his new role, Travis won’t be choreographing competition performances this season.
• At the Top 20, dancers won’t necessarily perform in pairs. There could be groups of three or four.
• Not changing: The SYTYCD all star dancers will return to perform with the contestants at the Top 10.
• How eliminations will work: It’s possible that voting will be done entirely via Twitter! The panel will choose the bottom 3 in each group, and America twitter saves one in each group. The judges choose the second. Too bad for you, west coast!
• You heard it first from Nigel. He predicts that a street dancer will win

Join Sir Mac as he LIVE BLOGS the SYTYCD premiere TONIGHT 8/7c pm on FOX.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE – First Look: Street vs. Stage

https://youtu.be/HhRObIPkCI0

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