I totally agree with both of your comments.

Critics can definitely get too technical, but I don't just think it's dance criticism that could be reaching the mainstream but just general dance news and features. It's part of our culture, whether they ignore it or not...

And I agree also that blogs today are extremely important to the dance community. As you said, it facilitates conversation rather than just a one way writer to reader boring relationship with dull writing. Being a collaborative art form at its most basic level, dance involves people and blogs have found a way to engage those people as well.