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...about ballroom dancing for exercise? It's joy, not work. Swing, salsa, tango for blood pressure, heart, balance and alertness. All that while you hear great music and hold someone in your arms. Vera Lee Newton, Massachusetts...
...experiencing a dance fever unmatched since the days of, well, Dance Fever, with ballroom classes at gyms and movies like Rize and Mad Hot Ballroom in theaters. Of course, any show that presents Bachelorette Trista Sutter as a celebrity is not going to bother too much with terpsichorean authenticity. Did you know that Three Times a Lady was a waltz? That Britney Spears' Toxic was a tango? That the jive was, per the narration, "a fast-paced rock-'n'-roll extravaganza born in the 1920s"? Or had you forgotten there was rock 'n' roll in the 1920s...
...this is reality TV, the ripping off has commenced. Fox last week announced Skating with Celebrities, which one suspects will draw heavily from Hollywood's expatriate Canadian community. (Norm Macdonald, start lacing up!) Fox airs So You Think You Can Dance next month, and TLC is preparing Ballroom Bootcamp, both of which were scheduled before Dancing premiered...
Which brings us back to asking why a ballroom contest is so popular. Census figures quickly dispel my first theory--that the median age of Americans is actually 73. Still, there is no other prime-time show so determinedly unhip. Where American Idol has Ryan Seacrest, Dancing has Hollywood Squares' Tom Bergeron. Where Idol's Simon Cowell snipes put-downs, judge Len Goodman has such quaint British diction you could imagine him reporting from London during the Blitz. The theatrics and costumes (former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre jived in a G.I. outfit) would embarrass an Ice Capades...
...about ballroom dancing for exercise? It's joy, not work. Swing, salsa, tango for blood pressure, balance and alertness--all that while you hear great music and hold someone in your arms...