7- to 12-year-olds star on new Philadelphia dance show, ‘Party Rockers Tween Scene’

IT COULD HAVE been a scene from any of the past six decades: Contemporary, beat-heavy music blares over a sound system while dozens of Delaware Valley young people shimmy and shake, their movements captured by cameras for a TV audience. This tableau, which unfolded on an early spring morning in the Play 2 Video Arcade at Chickie’s & Pete’s near the South Philly sports complex, was part of the taping of an episode of “Party Rockers Tween Scene.” The dance party airs at 11 a.m. Saturdays on NBC Philadelphia Nonstop (Comcast 248, Verizon Fios 460, over-the-air 10.2). Despite its venerable format — youngsters dancing to current pop hits — it is unlike anything that preceded it because the dancers are just 7 to 12 years old.