Breaking Pointe
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings
- Summary: The world of professional ballet dancers is explored with the dancers of Ballet West in Salt Lake City.
- Genre(s): Reality
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 1 premiere date: May 31, 2012
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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80Though the show takes the dancers' work at least as seriously as it takes their relationships, you won't need to know a plié from a pirouette to appreciate the drama, and yes, the touch of class, in Breaking Pointe.
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75The injuries are extreme, the dancing gorgeous, the dancers young and beautiful, and the slogan the best on TV: "Blood, Sweat and Tutus."
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67What separates this cast from just about every other real-ity show is that these people are chasing something larger than themselves, more vital to them than fame or money--that brief moment of perfection onstage, achieved after years of study and practice.
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33It shows only scant signs of life while also failing to be all that revealing about the unique profession it depicts.
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