Nickelodeon took advantage of its huge audience for the Kids Choice Awards to premiere its own version of a dance show, "Dance on Sunset."
Unlike the glut of other dance shows, this one is not strictly a competition (though it has an element that brings in some audience involvement).
Mostly, it’s an unusual half hour hosted by former MTV VJ Quddus Philippe in which the Nick Six troupe do choreographed dances to contemporary hits.
Along the way choreographer Tommy Testa teaches how do to steps in a kind of dance-along "High School Musical" kind of way. There’s a freestyle portion where kids in the audience spill onto the stage to do there thing where it starts to resemble old "American Bandstand" as reimagined by "Hairspray" with a "Bandstand" like countdown of the top five dance tunes (No.1 one was Mary J. Blige).
Then some of the "real people" are picked out by the Six for further competitions, the winner of which will be named Sunset VIP (though apparently not right away).
We learn too about the Six and their backgrounds, meaning Nick wants to turn them into little stars as soon as possible. And the audience members who do well inthe dance competitions can move up to be part of the next Six, a group assembled like a dance Menudo.
Source: http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2008/03/nick-goes-danci.html
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