We ask Emma Dumont about pointe shoes, her dream role and play a game of kiss, partner, kill with her.…
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The word triple-threat doesn’t seem adequate enough to describe Emma Dumont. From musical theatre productions as a young girl (she sings! She acts!), she eventually found her way to the silver screen. Her most prolific role to date has been that of the lanky, loyal Melanie Segel in ABC’s Bunheads, a delectable Amy Sherman-Palladino confection about ballet dancers in the small town of Paradise (she dances too!). Emma’s dancing sufficiently impressed the renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy and she was offered…
We referred to ABC’s Bunheads as the little dance show that could. Until it turned out that it couldn’t anymore. We were genuinely upset when ABC decided to terminate what we considered to be one of the best shows to emerge on the small screen in a long while. And never has there been a show that utilized dance in such a unique and effective manner.…