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So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 1

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ12001691 ↗
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So You Think You Can Dance is an American television dance competition that airs on the Fox network. The first season premiered on July 20, 2005, with Lauren Sánchez in her only season as host, Nigel Lythgoe as the main judge, and Mary Murphy, Dan Karaty, Mia Michaels and Brian Friedman as most frequent guest judges. Nick Lazzarini was crowned America's Favorite Dancer on October 5, 2005, with 37.7% of the votes.

Auditions

Locations

The main auditions for this season were held in following cities:

Format

Audition contestants had one minute to impress the judges. A contestant deemed to be not good enough was sent straight home, otherwise, they were sent to a choreography round. After that, the judges decided the fifty contestants that got through to the Hollywood week.

Minimum age for contestants was 18; maximum was 30.

Hollywood week

Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Dan Karaty, Mia Michaels, Brian Friedman, Alex Da Silva

Hollywood week was held in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. 25 female contestants and 25 male contestants (each gender) were invited to participate in the callback auditions. This number was cut down to 8 female contestants and 8 male contestants, a total of 16 contestants (both gender) that came through to the live shows.

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“So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 1” enters the record as season of television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Think, Dance and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.