So You Think You Can Dance 2012 premieres next Thursday, May 24, 2012, the night after the American Idol 2012 season finale! The two-hour SYTYCD 2012 kick off of the 9th season starts off with the auditions of course, but what what everyone is really waiting for is to see how the new one-night-a-week format will work during voting and elimination time.

Host Cat Deely promises that it’s going to be even more exciting than before and that there will still be plenty of guest judges and drama.

“It’s going to add new layer of drama and jeopardy,” Cat says of the change. “It’s going to be action-packed, super dramatic and super fun!”

Cat talks more about season 9 in the preview below.

And we’ll be here all season with your news, results and recaps!

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Former So You Think You Can Dance choregrapher Alex Da Silva has been senteced to 10 years in prison for raping a woman and assualting another, according to multiple reports.

DaSilva, 43 was convicted of raping a 22-year-old woman in 2002 and attacking another in 2009. The second case was an assault charge with the intent to rape. Four other counts were dismissed after the jury came to a deadlock.

The dance instructor worked on SYTYCD during the first four seasons. None of the charges were related to anyone from the Fox show.

Da Silva was also forced to register as a sex offender.

So You Think You Can Dance 2012 auditions are under way and host Cat Deeley recently shared some teasers to Entertainment Weekly.

Deeley shared that a former SYTYCD guest judge will return this season but as an auditioner. “He’s my best friend since doing the show,” Deeley said. “He makes me laugh so much. I’m so excited to have him back!” Apparently this mystery guest just wanted to see what the audition process was like, so they’re allowing him to audition just for the fun of it.

One of the biggest questions this season has been about how the show will reformat the show now that the results show has been cancelled. Deeley hinted at what’s in store with that whole situation. “We’re going to amalgamate the results show into the main show, which I think will add another layer of jeopardy,” she said. “We want to keep it punchy and keep that level of jeopardy and drama.”

The show’s co-executive producer Jeff Thacker elaborated. “The pressure’s going to be on for double the amount of time,” Thacker said. “They’re going to have to wait a week to find out who America put into the bottom 3, [and then] they have a second chance to redeem themselves.”

“So You Think You Can Dance” is traveling the country holding auditions for the upcoming season and you can be part of it.  For free! If you live in or around Brooklyn, that is.

For two days, January 24 and 25, the show is inviting fans to be a part of the audience at The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House as dancers audition for the upcoming season. You must be at least 14 years old. Print your free tickets here.

For now, the only tickets available are for Brooklyn, but you can keep an eye on the ticket site to see if an area closer to you becomes available.

Also, from the press release:

Also, we are looking for dance groups! If you are part of a dance group/club/organization of 20 or more you can attend the show as a group and get priority admission! For more information or to book your group, please call us at 818-880-8200 and ask for Howard or Daisy.

As previously reported, the “So You Think You Can Dance” results show was cancelled by Fox, but now it sounds like that could lead to a longer season for the show.

“We wanted to get a few more shows on over the summer,” said Fox Entertainment Chief Kevin Reilly. “We also wanted to smooth out our summer so we don’t stop early and then have these dead weeks leading up to the season.

“It wasn’t really like we wanted to reduce the total number of hours. In fact, we wanted to figure out how to spread it out over the summer, which is now what we’re doing.”

It’s apparently never going to be clear why these decisions are being made about the dance competition show, but Reilly claims it’s all for the better.

“I actually think that by compacting the two shows together, it’s going to actually juice up the format a little bit,” he added.