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Dance Competition Shakes


Things Up
BY CANDACE HAVENS
 FYI Televsion, Inc.
 The dance series"SoYouThink
You Can Dance; airing Wednes-
day at 8p.m. on FOX, is a favorite
summer staple for many viewers.
Executive producer Nigel Lyth-
goe is aware that the audience
likes the show to be a certain way,
but they are changing things up
a little this season by adding
dance crews to the competition.
 "Obviously we don't want to
get in the way of the main com-
petition;' Lythgoe says. "So, this
is going to be occurring over
the audition shows. We're go-
ing to introduce two crews in
each show and ask the public
to tweet which crew out of the
two that they would like to see
in the studio. That's going to
be presented by Justin Bieber.
 "Hels a huge "So You Think
You Can Dance" fan. Obviously
he watched it in Canada and
here in America, loves it and is
going to be presenting that part
of the show. We really do want
to keep it separate from the in-
dividual competition. They will
move on to the show and per-
form on the actual stage live!'
 That isn't the only change.
The show is returning to the
format where there will only be
one winner. "We've been quite
lenient in the past and said,
Which is your favorite male,
which is your favorite female?'
But we're going to make Amer-
ica choose one;' Lythgoe says.
 The dancers, who often go off
and find work once the show is
done, aren't the only ones who
benefit from having so much
exposure. "I think something
that we didn't originally realize
is how it important it would be
for the choreographers'" Lyth-
goe says. "We focused on the


dancers and what the dancers
had to do but, of course, it's just
as important for what the cho-
reographers do. We sort of gave
fhces to choreographers, and we
even led America to say 'chore-
ographer' and pronounce it cor-
rectly. So, it had a major impact,
I think, on choreography with
wonderful choreographers like
Mia Michaels, Sonya and Wade
Robson involved. It just gives
them much more commercial-
ity because they can do so much
more. So, from that point ofview,


the winner of'So You Think You
CanDance'willbeofferedapartin
An American in Paris' as well. So,
it all ties in at the end of the day."
 The guest judges can some-
times be as fhn as the contes-
tants. There are a few people on
Lythgoe's wish list that he'd like
to have on the show some day.
"I guess I would love people that
sort of give us the creditability of
dance like Baryshniko,' Lyth-
goe says. "Certainly in the ball-
room field, Pierre Dulaine, who
I've just done that movie with,
'Dancing in Jaffa' He knows
what he's talking about, and he
knows what he's looking for.
In the world of tap, it would've
been great to have had Savion
Glover on. You don't know how
they're going to be as judges.
They're wonderful in what they
do, but how are they going to be
as a judge? So, its difficult really.
 "I just love that revolving
 chair that gives
 us so many


Cat Deeley is back as the 1
host of "So You Think You'-
Can Dance," airing Wednes-
 day at 8 p.m. on FOX.


different people. We've just used
Fabrice Calmels from the Joffrey
Ballet, who is this 6-foot-5 bal-
let dancer. He was a really very
nice and pleasant, and good-
looking guy. Tara Lipinski, your
Olympic gold medalist, was an
absolutely terrific judge. So, you
try people out. You don't have
to have them every single week.
Misty Copeland came on as a
judge. We had good people this
year, I think, that came on and
were honest in their critiques
and entertaining, because at
the end of the day we have to
entertain people who are not
necessarily interested in dance


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