This season, the rounds included a hip-hop routine with Napoleon D'umo and Tabitha D'umo, a Broadway number with Tyce Diorio, the foxtrot with Jean-Marc Généreux, group choreography, contemporary choreography with Mia Michaels, and a final solo for the remaining contestants.
After partners are assigned, couples pick a dance style out of a hat, are rehearsed by a choreographer, and perform their routine.
If the eliminated dancers are not from the same couple, their respective partners form a new pair for the following week's performances.
Once the field of dancers is narrowed down to the top 10, permanent partnerships dissolve and contestants draw their new partners from a hat each week.
She was medically withdrawn, and Comfort Fedoke replaced her as she was the most recent female competitor eliminated.
[4] Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Debbie Allen, Lil' C, Adam Shankman, Mia Michaels ^1 All of the top 20 but Jessica King performed.
Chbeeb contracted pneumonia and was medically advised to withdraw and Muraine later quit during the Las Vegas auditions.
^3 Dmitry Chaplin, Ryan Conferido, Anya Garnis, Jaimie Goodwin, Allison Holker, Lauren Gottlieb, Neil Haskell, Hok Konishi, Ivan Koumaev, Melody Lacayanga, Dominic Sandoval, Benji Schwimmer and Travis Wall † Tyce Diorio, along with Rob Ashford from 81st Academy Awards were joint-winners.