Seasoned with chasing dreams, family relationship, life lessons and first love bliss, KBS2’s youth drama Just Dance jives to complement year-end me-time with its engaging narrative.
Rooting for the story of Dance Sports girls in Just Dance each week has been a breath of fresh air. The individual stories of the girls neatly fit in to its entire picture – even when the focus of the story is set to Lee Shi Eun.
- Main Cast: Park Se Wan | Jang Dong Yoon | Shin Do Hyun | Lee Joo Young
- Streaming Sites: Viu
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Just Dance spins the story of Lee Shi Eun (Park Se Wan), a small-town girl from Goeje, who dreams of pursuing a university education as a writer. In order to pursue her dream, she joins the dance sports club to improve her specs. Despite her mother’s unrelenting decision for her future plans, she perseveres until she learns the reality-biting battle that her mother has been doing throughout the years related to the death of her father.
Along the way, Shi Eun builds solid friendships with the members of the dance sports club and also engages in a relationship with her childhood friend Seung Chan (Jang Dong Yoon). However, the truth about the involvement of Seung Chan’s father in the death of Shi Eun’s father makes the latter decide to painfully break their young love.
Just Dance Peak Points
Encouraging Youth Story
From finding their purpose, the girls of Just Dance came in with inspiring stories albeit having disheartening fictional family life backgrounds. Through dancing, they had forged a friendship circle initially unlikely to happen based on their personalities.
Guiding them every step of the way was a teacher who never gave up on their shortcomings and insecurities. By letting them work a dance club as members, he had helped nurture the confidence of her students to trust that – no matter how hard life is, there is always a silver lining to discover.
Balanced Blend of Character Portrayals and Storytelling
With a relatively rookie cast, the remarkable veteran actors added a layer of emotional depth to the story. Nevertheless, the young actors were not at par in terms of their immersion to their characters. In fact, those harrowing confrontation scenes of Shi Eun with her mother left a contemplative imprint on how the harsh life realities limit almost anyone in finding happiness.
Instead of picturing a taxing school life, the main cast talked about how they have worked on their real lives aside from studying. Family relationships that were depicted, although mostly disheartening, left a comforting nudge, because the girls spinning the story were all given sad and shining moments.
Just Dance Series Musings
Just Dance relishes the idea of a point in one’s life when chasing dreams is scary, because you are uncertain about it. With relatable friendship side stories and romance hints, the swift movement of the series has made the series an easy watch. You can even finish it in one sitting.
My weekly doses of this youth drama have had me cry and smile subconsciously because it easily evokes those fond memories of when I was once a young woman, full of passion, yet unsure of what my life purpose would be like.
Indeed, what makes you happy does not always translate to what you want to do in life – this is the biggest takeaway I got from Just Dance girls.
Photos” KBS2
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