So what makes a lively dance “scene,” asks Lane Czaplinski. “I find it ironic that while we (people who care about dance) are always quick to site the problems in the field–a lack of resources, waning attendance, regurgitated aesthetics, etc.–that we are also quick to take offense at precisely the kind of provocative writing that can get people to give a damn. If there is any threat to the dance field, it is that not enough people care about it. Perhaps this is because people read too much puffy marketing rhetoric and too many namby-pamby reviews that do nothing to enliven one’s engagement with the form.”