Gaby diaz sytycd biography

Gaby Diaz, a winner of “So You Think You Can Dance,” has shaped a surprising freelance career that bridges commercial and concert dance.
She is the first tap dancer to ever achieve overall first place in SYTYCD.
Trained tap dancer who won season 12 of So You Think You Can Dance, becoming the first tap dancer to take home the honor.

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Gaby Diaz's Next Stop is Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story'

After Gaby Diaz won Season 12 of So You Think You Can Dance, she pursued a commercial dance career in Los Angeles. She was successfully working in the dance industry and was an All-Star on Seasons 13 and 14 on SYTYCD.

Yet Gaby found herself wanting more in her dance training. At the Season 14 finale, while proudly watching her winning partner, Lex Ishimoto, do interviews with the press, she leaned over and whispered to me, "I'm moving to Chicago tomorrow."

That move set Gaby off on a journey from the Hubbard Street’s Professional Program to an apprentice position in the company to Steven Spielberg's West Side Story next December. It's a story that dancers should pay attention to because the additional training she sought in the middle of her flourishing career, has made an even bigger impact than she ever imagined.

Dance Dish met up with Gaby on a recent trip to New York, where she's setting the stage for the next act in her career.

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Gaby Diaz is a tap dancer from Season 12 of So You Think You Can Dance. She won Season 12 as the first place winner.

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So You Think You Can Dance[]

Gaby first auditioned for season 12 in Dallas, Texas.

Main article: Season 12 performances

Meet the Top 20 (July 13, 2015)[]

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She is the first tap dancer to ever achieve overall first place in SYTYCD.
In Season 13, she became an all star judge for the next generation and she chose Emma Hellenkamp, who is currently a tap dancer too.

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So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 12

Season of television series

So You Think You Can Dance, an American dance competition show, returned for its twelfth season, titled So You Think You Can Dance: Stage Vs. Street, on Monday, June 1, 2015. Seventeen episodes were broadcast on the Fox Network, including episode nine on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, which was a special celebrating the tenth anniversary of the show titled "A Decade of Dance Special Edition". The sixteen regular episodes aired each week on Mondays, rather than Wednesdays as it had been in recent previous seasons. On September 14, 2015, Gaby Diaz won the competition and made history by becoming the first tap dancer to win the title.

Auditions were held in Dallas TX, Detroit MI, Los Angeles CA, Memphis TN and New York NY.^[1]

Judges

Series creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe returned as a member of the permanent judging panel, along with new permanent members Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo.

The Team Captains, Travis Wall for Team Stage and tWitch for Team Street,