Choreography For So You Think You Can Dance
| Season | Week | Dancers | Style | Music |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Week 6 | Melody Lacayanga Nick Lazzarini |
Broadway | "All That Jazz" from Chicago |
| Season 2 | Week 1 | Aleksandra Wojda Jason Williams |
Contemporary | "Unwritten"—Natasha Bedingfield |
| Martha Nichols Travis Wall |
Broadway | "Steam Heat"—The Pointer Sisters | ||
| Week 5 | Allison Holker Ivan Koumaev |
Contemporary | "Why"—Annie Lennox | |
| Donyelle Jones Benji Schwimmer |
Broadway | "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray | ||
| Week 6 | Allison Holker Ryan Rankine |
"Bye Bye Blackbird"—Liza Minnelli | ||
| Natalie Fotopoulos Benji Schwimmer |
Jazz | "Wonderful"—India.Arie | ||
| Week 7 | Natalie Fotopoulos Ryan Rankine |
Contemporary | "I Will Get There"—Boyz II Men | |
| Heidi Groskreutz Benji Schwimmer |
Broadway | "Fake Your Way to the Top" from Dreamgirls | ||
| Top 8 | Group routine | "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago | ||
| Week 8 | Natalie Fotopoulos Ivan Koumaev |
Contemporary | "Everytime We Touch (Yanou's Candlelight Mix)"—Cascada | |
| Donyelle Jones Benji Schwimmer |
Broadway | "Le Jazz Hot"—Julie Andrews | ||
| Week 9 | Heidi Groskreutz Donyelle Jones |
"Big Spender" from Sweet Charity | ||
| Season 3 | Week 1 | Shauna Noland Jimmy Arguello |
"Ease on Down the Road" from The Wiz | |
| Week 2 | Jessi Peralta Pasha Kovalev |
Jazz | "Stiff Jazz"—dZihan & Kamien | |
| Lacey Schwimmer Kameron Bink |
Broadway | "Overture/All That Jazz" from Chicago | ||
| Week 3 | Top 16 | Group routine | "The Lioness Hunt" from The Lion King | |
| Week 4 | Anya Garnis Danny Tidwell |
Contemporary | "Apologize"—OneRepublic | |
| Week 5 | Jaimie Goodwin Hokuto "Hok" Konishi |
Broadway | "Mr. Bojangles" from Fosse | |
| Week 6 | Sabra Johnson Kameron Bink |
Contemporary | "Amazing Grace"—Crystal Lewis | |
| Week 7 | Sabra Johnson Pasha Kovalev |
Broadway | "A Wild Wild Party" from The Wild Party | |
| Week 9 | Top 4 | "Mein Herr"—Liza Minnelli | ||
| Season 4 | Week 1 | Kherington Payne Stephen "Twitch" Boss |
"Too Darn Hot" from Kiss Me, Kate | |
| Week 2 | Katee Shean Joshua Allen |
"All for the Best" from Godspell | ||
| Week 3 | Comfort Fedoke Chris Jarosz |
Jazz | "The Beautiful People"—Marilyn Manson | |
| Week 4 | Top 14 | Group routine | "Money Money" from Cabaret | |
| Week 5 | Chelsie Hightower Mark Kanemura |
Broadway | "I'm a Woman" from Smokey Joe's Cafe | |
| Jessica King William Wingfield |
Contemporary | "Silence" from Unfaithful | ||
| Week 6 | Kherington Payne Mark Kanemura |
Jazz | "Canned Heat"—Jamiroquai | |
| Katee Shean William Wingfield |
Broadway | "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys and Dolls | ||
| Week 7 | Katee Shean Stephen "Twitch" Boss |
"Sweet Georgia Brown" from Bubbling Brown Sugar | ||
| Week 8 | Katee Shean Joshua Allen |
Contemporary | "All by Myself"—Celine Dion | |
| Week 9 | Courtney Galiano Katee Shean |
Broadway | "The Trolley Song"—Rufus Wainwright | |
| Season 5 | Week 1 | Asuka Kondoh Vitolio Jeune |
"Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago | |
| Randi Evans Evan Kasprzak |
Jazz | "I Only Have Eyes for You"—Jamie Cullum | ||
| Week 3 | Jeanine Mason Phillip Chbeeb |
Broadway | "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain | |
| Week 6 | Melissa Sandvig Brandon Bryant |
"Aquarius" from Hair | ||
| Week 7 | Melissa Sandvig Ade Obayomi |
Contemporary | "This Woman's Work"—Maxwell | |
| Kayla Radomski Jason Glover |
Broadway | "Mr. Monotony"—Kim Criswell | ||
| Week 8 | Melissa Sandvig Evan Kasprzak |
"Get Me To The Church On Time" - Matt Dusk | ||
| Week 9 | Kayla Radomski Brandon Bryant |
"Bye Bye Love" from All That Jazz | ||
| Season 6 | Week 1 | Ashleigh Di Lello Jakob Karr |
"Hit Me With a Hot Note (And Watch Me Bounce)" from Sophisticated Ladies |
- Favorite routines:
- Season 1:
- Melody and Nick's Chicago "All That Jazz" Broadway routine ended up as Melody Lacayanga (runner-up)'s favourite routine she performed of the season.
- Season 2:
- Donyelle and Benji's Broadway routine to "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray was chosen to be Donyelle Jones (3rd place)'s favourite routine she performed of the season.
- Allison and Ivan's contemporary routine to Annie Lennox's "Why" was contemporary choreographer Mia Michaels' favourite routine of the season.
- Martha and Travis' Broadway routine to "Steam Heat" by The Pointer Sisters ended up as jazz choreographer Brian Friedman's favourite routine of the season.
- Season 5:
- Melissa and Ade's contemporary routine to Maxwell's "This Woman's Work" Mia Michaels' favorite routine of the season.
- Season 1:
- Top 15 routines season 1-5 choreographies by Tyce Diorio:
- Season 1:
- Melody and Nick's Chicago "All That Jazz" Broadway routine
- Season 2:
- Allison and Ivan's contemporary routine to Annie Lennox's "Why"
- Season 5:
- Melissa and Ade's contemporary routine to "This Woman's Work" by Maxwell was chosen to be Nigel Lythgoe's favourite routine from all seasons 1-5
- Season 1:
Tyce recently choreographed for the hit Lifetime TV show, "Drop Dead Diva" featuring Paula Abdul and some SYTYCD past finalists including Mollee Gray(S6), William Wingfield(S4) & Joy Spears(S2). Episode premiers on Season 2, June 6 on Lifetime.
He was also special guest choreographer in So You Think You Can Dance (Poland) (season 6). He helped judges to pick the top 14 dancers.
Read more about this topic: Tyce Diorio
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