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For two years the celebrity dance competition Dancing with the Stars and the common folks’ version So You Think You Can Dance have dominated their time slots. January 7, 2008, Dancing with the Stars judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli usher in the second wave of primetime dance with the six-episode ABC mini-series Dance War.

Over the course of what is amorphously called TV’s mid-season, Dance War will be joined by Bravo’s Step It Up, ABC’s third entry in the dance competition genre, All the Right Moves, and MTV’s Dance Crew, co-produced by American Idol’s Randy Jackson. Additionally, Bravo heavily promoted December’s coverage of the International Dance Sport Federation championship series, which it has carried to less fanfare in seasons past.

On Dance War, Inaba and Tonioli square off against each other to, in the over-wrought words of a press release, “battle it out across the dance floor to create the ultimate dance group.” The final open audition was Sept. 29th, in NYC. Attendance at an open audition was supposed to be mandatory, but at the last minute they decided to accept video submissions until Oct. 12th.

Magical Elves, producers of Project Runway and Top Chef, are producing Step It Up. They were looking for “both trained and self-taught, versatile dancers of all styles to compete for a big cash prize!” The deadline for video applications was Oct. 15th.

Casting notices for All The Right Moves stressed that one did not have to be a trained dancer, which gives the impression this series may open with a couple of weeks of audition fun, a la American Idol. Open calls were held in NYC and LA in October and November.

Dance Crew (working title) is a new live weekly reality competition series from American Idol judge Randy Jackson and the creators of the USA and World Hip Hop Dance Championships. Applicants had to appear to be 18 years of age or older, crews had to contain 5 to 7 members and could be made up of any combination of males and females. Open calls, held in Atlanta, Chicago and NYC, ended Dec. 8th.

Will the new shows glut the market, or is the audience for popular dance large enough to support several flavors? With So You Think You Can Dance gearing up for nationwide casting calls in the new year, street buzz on TV dance competitions should be higher than ever when the second wave hits the beach January 7.

by Lyle Burwell

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