Apologies to Dancelife
Apologies to Dancelife by Roxanne McDonald
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Not that I’m taking responsibility for all of us, but sorry we didn’t get as excited as we could (or should) have for “Dancelife”. |
In January of 2007, 1.6 million viewers tuned in to “Dancelife”, a competition for dancers that was led by Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo). At about the same time, viewers had watched in such numbers as 10.3 million the July 20, 2005 installment of “So You Think You Can Dance.”
On a popular linking site, SirLinksAlot, we can even see the waning interest—how even reviewers stopped reviewing in February. One short month after “Dancelife” aired on MTV.
Art and artfulness defined are always subjective, but I am not sure that says much about the two dance shows or about the viewing public and their choices to watch or not watch.
Maybe that the show does not so much focus on the actual auditioning and competing and more on the tough life of dancers Blake, Celestina, Jersey, Kenny, Nolan, and Staci on the whole turns too many off. After all, what a tough life we all have, combined with having to live through a war that is wreaking more havoc than we wish for, makes a majority of viewers avoid rather than indulge in straight up
documentation of others’ troubles.
True, we get satisfaction from cathartic shows, those which see the bad guy going down, those which involve comedy, satire, or mockery, and any shows which will temporarily take us out of our own miserable lives, out of our own overburdened heads.
So what is it Dancelife was missing? A bad guy? Humor? Defined competition?
All I can say is I am sorry it didn’t hold for me as much intrigue as the beautiful, interesting, and talented executive producer J-Lo does.
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