UPDATE: Lythgoe has already announced two of the veterans returning via his Twitter account: Season 4’s Twitch and Season 6’s Kathryn.

For So You Think You Can Dance‘s seventh season, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe announced a series of changes that will supposedly freshen up the show a bit…and make it more like Dancing with the Stars?

When the show returns this May, we will no longer be seeing 20 finalists competing for the dance title. The audition process will now whittle the pool down to just 10 names—five men and five women. So does this mean the series will now end a few weeks earlier than usual? No - because we will now only see 1 person eliminated a week.

Like the six previous seasons, the dancers will still perform with another person—just not a fellow competitor. The contestants will now be paired with rotating “All-Star Partners” from SYTYCD‘s past. (Those returning to the series will be revealed in the weeks to come.) Those veterans, like the ones on that ABC program, will not be the focus of the judges from —just the finalists.

“Some of these brilliant dancers (from past seasons) have just disappeared off the face of the earth. To be able to have this show use its own talent is fabulous,” Lythgoe explained in a conference call.

In addition, Lythgoe announced via Twitter that the genres of dance will not be randomly chosen by the competitors themselves. (So does this mean they will be pre-assigned like on DWTS?)

Whether you like these changes or not, there is one good thing that came out of today’s announcements: the return of Mia Michaels as both a judge and a choreographer. (Woo hoo!)

Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance will kick off on May 27.

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