abstract:The fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance, a Dutch/Belgian televised dance competition, aired in the fall of 2012 on networks RTL5 (Netherlands) and vtm (Belgium). Judges Dan Karaty, Euvgenia Parakhina and Jan Kooijman all returned as permanent members of the judge's panel while departing judge Marco Gerrits was replaced by choreographer Ish Ait Hamou while An Lemmens and Dennis Weening returned in their roles as co-hosts.