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[reposted from fb]Jessica C: I love this show. It's awesome.

I love so you think you can dance, i love them showing people who can actually dance learn new things and i love that the are bringing all this awareness of different cultural dancing.

Over at our favorite local arts blog, Another Bouncing Ball, Regina Hackett takes apart dance critics who sling mud at popular dance TV shows that they haven't actually watched (much).This is me quoting Regina quoting Alastair McCauley (the dance critic at the New York Times and, as Regina points out, the only full-time dance critic employed at an American newspaper):"The little I see of 'So You Think You Can Dance' and 'Strictly Come Dancing' [the British TV dance competition] tends to put me off watching more; the camera angles seldom help you judge footwork; the whole climate feels manipulative; and the dances themselves aren't those I'd want good performers to learn..."You can read McCauley's whole piece, which is chiefly concerned with what he considers the degradation of ballroom dancing into something closer to dirty dancinghere.I know we've got some serious dancers and some lovers of SYTYCD out there (and maybe, just maybe, some serious dancers who love SYTYCD? Do you exist?) What do you think? Do shows like SYTYCD and Dancing With The Stars help make dance more accessible to a new generation, or do they disgrace the form? Comments please.- Holly A.

Das Barbecü was, to put it simply, fantastic. I marvel at how well they not only managed to condense a 15 hour opera down to 2 hours and thirty minutes, but how well they balanced the spirit of the opera with the screwball comedy that truly carries the play. A must-see, even if you have no prior knowledge of opera!

I hate cheese

You're all overreacting. I'm not big fan of hers, but either way..In relative comparison to ANY other American pop star, it's undeniable that she's one of the more wholesome.In any case, that's not a pole dance. That's holding onto a pole and wiggling around a little bit.Whatever; it's a probably just a ploy to get more publicity for her anyway.

I like cheese, not so much cheddar, I'm more of a blue cheese kind of man.and i believe this show could be compared to a wheel of cheese, smelly on the outside, but when you bite in it fills your mouth with a delightful sensation. Not to mention it packs a nutritious and healthy punch.So in my mind this show is like cheese.

Whether or not it was for balance, it'd be pretty impossible to miss the connotations of dancing with a pole (and then dropping it ). But I doubt it's entirely her fault - she would in all likelihood be a nobody without Disney, and I'm positive she doesn't do her own choreography. My issue with this is that the Teen Choice Awards are watched by primarily a younger audience, and with so many young girls looking up to Miley Cyrus you've got to wonder if having her dancing on a pole in hooker boots is a good idea. But hey, it works for Disney. If it sells, that's all they need.

yeah she drops it low once holding onto a pole...but it's not like she is on the pole the whole time...she's 16 and wants attention...but she is attractive and can get attention in less provocative ways

she is Hawt =Di didnt see it but still haha

I have my own prudish, grown-up feelings about this young lady:doing what is being described everywhere as a pole dance at the Teen Choice Awards. But since I didn't actually see it, and since I am a grown-up prude, I will withhold final judgement until I hear from you guys. Did you see it? What do you think? Is Miley Cyrus shirking her responsiblity as a role-model for young girls? Is role-modeling even part of her job description? Does the fact that she likely had little to do with actually choreographing the dance make it better, or worse? Is everybody just overreacting? Take the poll (no pun intended) and leave your comments here.No idea what we're talking about? Here are links to a fewarticles.

haha. I guess they did that

cast, director, sct and teen tix blogger Jenny S. you all did something right/controversial/stimulating/provoking as no other teen tix blog appears to have received as many comments!!!!!!!

What happened to No day but today guys? These haters are just self proclaimed critics with something to prove. Who cares, you all know you were amazing.... I know you were amazing. Even if we went on stage and did nothing... who cares?!? we had a blast rehearsing and getting to know each other and that is where I feel we did the best. We went from complete strangers to a family in less than a month. We didn't put on a show we told a story, because we weren't just actors we were real people living things that actually happened. And I applaud every single one of you for bringing that to life.No day but today.

Something I almost forgot, to the cast of rent: be proud of the work you did. Don't let any of this negitivity get to you and keep doing what you love.

To all the people who gave glowing reviews: this was certainly not the best thing on the entire planet and I could venture to guess that you are all friends or family of the cast or the cast themselves. To all the people who gave negati ve reviews: let up on these people. This was a WORKSHOP, not a broadway performance. This was an extremely difficult piece to perform and I think these guys did a really good job. It was not perfect and I didn't enjoy every moment, but there were some great moments and some real talent coming out of that group (Angel and Collins). They did the very best with what they had. I cannot deny that the whole cast worked extremly hard to put the show on. Of course it had it's faults, but to say it was horrible is uncalled for. To person a: thank you for the honest and wonderful review.

Personally i thoroughly enjoyed the comment about crayola tattoos, after walking backstage and thinking exactly the same thing. It was apparently supposed to be a guitar. As for the flaming debate currently raging, Rent may have not been the best show i have ever worked on, but it was a pretty damn decent show. If you had seen those poor actors their first day on the set you would be incredibly surprised how far they had come by the time opening night swung around. It is incredibly low to bitch about this show because you think you could have done better. Just take the show for what it was. I'm not gonna lie, there were times when we thought that the best way to fix some actors voices was to lead then into a corner and quietly dispose of them. Please, keep in mind how little rehearsal time these actors were given, and what they managed to pull off despite of it. It was not Anthony Rapp and Adam Paschal, but it was pretty damn decent.

Reposting comment from FBLeah Menzer: this is the supreme bane of my existanceAugust 5 at 12:07am

Reposting comment from FBNiki Stoykovaseriously: people are too busy making videos to put on youtube rather than enjoying the actual experience of a concert. Its quite annoying!August 4 at 4:08pm

Thank you @Americans4Arts for drawing my attention to this cool blog and today's excellent post on TV politico Rachel Maddow's comments on dance and the value of art in American society at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival. Some choice quotes:"I know nothing about dance. I am a fan. I am a fan of dance and of Jacob’s Pillow and a fan of people who know nothing about dance going to see dance."Photo by Allison Slater"Not just in wartime but especially in wartime, and not just in hard economic times but especially in hard economic times, the arts get dismissed as ‘sissy’. Dance gets dismissed as craft, creativity gets dismissed as inessential, to the detriment of our country. And so when we fight for dance, when we buy art that’s made by living American artists, when we say that even when you cut education to the bone, you do not cut arts and music education, because arts and music education IS bone, it is structural, it is essential."Read the whole post here.