A dancer is a dancer it is said, but today with over 30 years of dance experience behind me, I can guess a dancer’s personality by simply knowing what television serials they often like to watch. Whether it’s respite from a hectic day, or a sad excuse for a social life, what you flip on to watch in your free time says a surprising lot about you as a dancer. Your fixation towards a certain kind of programming, not including the sports and music genres owing to the mass appeal, can reveal interesting insights into your dancer personality type. So figure out where your dancer TRP stands.

Soaps
If you love to see daily soaps, then you are an emotional dancer. Family bonds and relationships are top priority for you. If serials such as Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, Kuch Toh Log Kahenge or Pavitra Rishta touch your emotional core, you can be accused of being a die-hard romantic. You can do the romantic and love dances well and express it beautifully. Young men who watch soaps are suspect mama’s boys who tow the family line and are unlikely to rebel.

Reality Shows
If you’re hooked to over-the-top melodramatic reality shows, you will seldom find others interesting enough. You are a dancer who has the zest to learn more and more and also loves to show off skills — especially at a competition. You are an ardent dance lover, you don’t care about what people say when you dance — you just dance. Watching shows such as Roadies, Emotional Atyachaar and Bigg Boss, makes you feel less guilty about the shortcomings in your own life and the dance floor.

Travel and Cookery
Instead of drooling over Madhuri Dixit on Food Food Maha Challenge, you actually watch the show to learn good cooking. Travel shows fire up the explorer in you, making you think of ways to get there. A highly creative dancer, you love life pretty much as it is, you love to discover new dance forms and try to learn them with sincerity. You believe in pushing limits and like experimenting. You are the life of all dance parties.

Educational
You are often accused of being a documentary-junkie. Channels such as National Geographic, Discovery, Animal Planet and History are your fix, watching anything else on TV feels like a waste of time. Not big on parties, you are an intense dance with an equally strong personality and a clear agenda to learn more in life. You are an intelligent dancer who loves to get deeper into the form by knowing more about its origin and development and you may look down upon people who watch mindless shows, in another word — people who just dance without thought. In the pursuit of perfection, you have a fundamental need to go ahead of yourself.

Crime or Thrillers
Shows like CID, Crime Patrol and Adaalat fascinate you, then you are no dull cow. Reading between the lines comes naturally to you. You believe you have been gifted with a third eye. You are constantly looking to challenge yourself as a dancer, be it at work or on the dance floor. You are an extrovert and like to be a step ahead of others. You are a fighter and want to prove that you can do better on the floor compared to the average Joe in your class, you are more aware and alert about what is happening around you. You only trust first-hand information given to you by your teacher or the choreographer.

Sitcoms
Light-hearted easy-watching sitcoms such as Sex and the City and Friends appeal to your liberal lifestyle, and blend with your broad-minded ideology. You feel like a queen or a king on the floor. Having achieved a certain status and financial stability in life, you believe in individual freedom and give enough breathing space to your partner. But you still live life king size on the dance
floor.

Paranormal or Horror
Hungry for adventure you have an intrinsic need to explore the unknown. You love to try new forms of dances, with your esoteric interests, if an idea or dance form interests you, you are likely to investigate it till you find convincing answers and get to a school that teaches you the correct techniques. You love to be over the top in the dance and have exaggerated movements, as you relate well to reincarnation, ghosts and vampires or subjects dealing with the supernatural.

Cartoons
Dancers who love to watch cartoons are looking for a quick escape from the hard reality of their times. Watching cartoons help them revisit their childhood and nurture their inner child, reflecting a strong belief in simplicity and innocence. You work hard on the dance floor and also in life and have a good sense of humour. You can be a very good comic dancer and show your fun side to the audience when you dance.

News of the World
Dancers who are hooked to the “breaking news” phenomenon, have an active thought process and like to indulge in discussions about their dance form with intense intellectual stimulation. Som-etimes when you get excited, you don’t listen to others and miss their point. So be more patient as a dancer and calm yourself a bit, as performing on the dance floor needs determination and loads of practice.