Off-Balance: A Dance For Grace is a Movie with none

Its almost pointless, in a way, reviewing a movie like A Dance For Grace. Featuring scenes from across the island, including several dance sessions, and loaded with indigenous product placement (WATA by the case), its the kind of production that will draw in an audience hungry for images of ourselves, even if these images are presented and manipulated by ex-pats.

None of that, however, can hide the fact that Dance for Grace's Southern-fried dancehall fusion simply doesn't taste good. Poor production values (the "big competition" scenes look like they were shot in a garage), mostly wooden performances and a script that would likely not pass muster at a second-tier performing arts academy, make this Dance rather tedious for the serious viewer.

But with its message of fusing up-to-the-minute dancehall grooves with Southern culture (though the accents are painfully exaggerated), it is na indicator of the spread of Jamaican "culture", as anyone who delves into YouTube would recongnze.

in fact, Dance For Grace may be classified as a suite of You tube videos strung together. In that sense, it is a film for, and of its time.

As entertainment, or art,however, one would have to say "it loo."