Salon.com > Sarah Blackwood http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 14:54:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fox’s populist dance spectacle http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/dance_dance_revelation/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/dance_dance_revelation/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:08:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13015323 The Fox network is known for its thought-provoking television programming, so it was no surprise, last month, to flip the channel there and find a group of six bare-chested men wearing skirts, writhing and leaping in a frankly eroticized war dance, as they performed choreographer Robert Battle’s The Hunt.

Los Angeles Review of Books

Or, wait. Perhaps you were surprised? These members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater appeared on Fox’s hit reality program So You Think You Can Dance, which wraps up its ninth season tonight. Viewers enjoyed the Ailey performance while waiting to find out which dancers would be, in reality-speak, “eliminated.” As if to make up for the daring of the professional troupe’s performance, the results were blandly predictable: two white girls (who are nearly indistinguishable from two other white girls currently on the show) got to stay; one lithe black ballerina named Amber was voted off. Thanks for nothing, America.

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