Dance and Football
Editors Letters || Wednesday, 16 August, 2006
It's all very good stating the obvious, that footballers are paid ridiculous amounts to be crap in this country (face it they never actually do their job properly) but the problem remains that dance doesn't have the audience in this country that football has' the main reason being that dance isn't unpredictable and people can see dance for free on MTV.
There's no live atmosphere like there is with football because dance isn't interactive, so people won't be interested on a larger scale like they are with football. What we need is anoher theatrical revolution to reform dance in a way that makes it more entertaining and appealing to a larger audience, basically someone who can do what Brecht did for theatre.
Otherwise dance as an artform will never be as lucrative as football and therefore the job propescts will always be bad, but regardless people will still do it because we'd rather do this than being stuck in the rat race.
Carl Pattrick
I would also question just how football is in any way 'interactive' and just exactly where on MTV can you watch a dance performance of any kind?
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