Local b-boy Bailey Munoz has been dancing professionally since he was 10 and remains a familiar face on the Las Vegas entertainment scene. He's been a resident performer at the Cosmopolitan's since he was barely out of middle school, so he's no stranger to the spotlight. Still, winning Season 16 of So You Think You Can Dance on September 16 came as a huge surprise, the 19-year-old says.

"To be honest, it still hasn't hit me that I've won the show," Munoz tells the Weekly during a recent phone interview. "It's been [several] weeks now, and it still hasn't really sunk in."

The most recent season turned into a nail-biter for fans of the dance show, with Munoz facing tough competition from Mariah Russell, Gino Cosculluela and Sophie Pittman. His energetic hip-hop routines—along with just about every style of dance he had to learn in a limited amount of time—gave him the edge to win the title and the $250,000 prize.

For Munoz, who has watched the show since he was a little kid, winning marks the culmination of years of hard work. "This journey has meant so much to me, because it's inspired me through dance and in life, so the show was definitely bigger than myself. And my family, my mentors and everyone had been supporting me through it all."

Watching Munoz's performances on the show, one gets the impression that he's preternaturally confident. Even when he had to stretch out of his comfort zone with a different genre, he seemed to take it all in stride. Ballroom, in particular, was especially challenging, he says, though you wouldn't know it from his performance. "There are so many rules and techniques that you have to follow. Mastering that in, like, five days is literally impossible. And I'm a shorter guy, too, so there were a lot of challenges. ... Coming from a hip-hop background, I didn't have the level of technique everyone was on, and it made me work 10 times harder."

The season's top 10 contestants are in the middle of a multicity tour, which stops at the Smith Center on November 22. For a local kid who's notched some high-profile achievements on his dance card—including touring with Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber—performing at the arts venue is something else entirely. "I've been dreaming every single night about it, and I just can't get it out of my head," he says. "So You Think You Can Dance has been a dream come true, and it's also a dream come true to perform at the Smith Center. I'm just so excited to come home and celebrate with everybody."

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE LIVE! 2019 November 22, 7:30 p.m., $29-$85, Reynolds Hall, 702-749-2000.