On the set: ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
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Richard Rushfield reported from Las Vegas about Fox’s summer reality hit. He writes:
On its surface, “ So You Think You Can Dance’s” Vegas Week looks like many battle-to-the death reality TV shows. At the gigantic Theatre for the Performing Arts, just a few yards off Planet Hollywood Hotel’s casino floor, the requisite elements of the genre are clearly evident; dancers buckling under the pressure, judges sternly jotting down notes; camera crews capturing the tension as contestants fresh from the stage wonder whether they gave enough. But stick around the show’s Vegas Week (which airs on Fox tonight) a little longer and you’ll be struck by what is missing from the familiar panoply of reality TV staples -- judges searching for clever ways to rub the dancers’ faces in their missteps, or a host coolly reveling in the contestants’ moments of despair, or catfights, bug-eating, backstabbing or name-calling. That is to say, every one of the established ingredients of a prime-time competition show.
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