On the underserved ballet/dance audience.
Two (or three, if you squint) dance movies scored big over the weekend: Michael Jackson's last stand "This Is It" continued to score overseas with $29 million; meanwhile, in New York, Frederick Wiseman's documentary "La Danse" took in $21,000 in one weekend, better than any per-screen average in the U.S. box office (save, predictably, $100,000/screen for "Precious"), and Maureen Dowd felt the need to write a totally pointless column about "The Red Shoes" -- playing alongside "La Danse" at New York's Film Forum -- and when I saw it on Saturday, it was about ten seats away from being sold out. So maybe her column wasn't that pointless. This, I'd submit, seems like a weird weekend coincidence, but isn't really. Though I presume this has nothing to do with a voracious Wiseman fanbase suddenly manifesting itself, the promise of coordinated dancing holds great appeal. Consider that broadcast TV networks survive...
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