GREENVILLE — David Dancy is certainly excited about the new location for his tattoo and piercing parlor, Divers Dungeon, which reopened Saturday a few doors east of its former location at the base of the Town House Apartments on Lee Street downtown.
The new shop is a little larger and a little better organized than the previous site, which Dancy said will make things easier not only for him, but for his clients.
“It is more open,” Dancy said. “My other shop was kind of cut up and had some closed rooms. This is better for business. I wanted to set things up a little bit different this time, just make it nice.”
But the real excitement is still to come, as Dancy and the Divers Dungeon are scheduled to be featured on a nationwide cable television program.
Dancy said he was approached earlier this year by representatives of The Learning Channel, which airs a popular tattoo-themed reality program called “Miami Ink”, focusing on Florida-based artists and their clientele.
“In this upcoming season on ‘Miami Ink’, every other week they are going to do a 15-minute segment on small town tattoo shops,” Dancy said. “I was chosen to be on the show, so I figured it would be just as good a time as any to open up something new and get ready for that.”
Dancy has been a tattoo artist for 23 years, including the past five in Greenville. He said some of his customers may also get a chance to appear on the program.
“They will be here on June 16 and they will be here for three weeks,” Dancy said of the schedule for the shooting of the episode during which he will be featured. But, if someone were already considering getting a tattoo and wanted to memorialize the event on cable television, they might want to plan well ahead of the filming schedule.
“At the first of the year I’ll start taking applications,” Dancy said. “You actually have to apply to be on the show.”
The “Miami Ink” producers will be the ones to decide who will and will not be on the program.
“They’ll consider your age, naturally the way you look, the tattoo you’re going to be getting and where it is going to be applied,” Dancy said. “From there, they will come down a month before they start filming to do the screening and after the screening they will make the final decision as to who will get to be on the show. Then they will come down and it will take them about three weeks to get the 15 minutes worth of footage out of it.”
Dancy is overwhelmed to have been chosen to be a part of the show.
“I think it is a quite an honor to get to go nationwide,” Dancy said. “Plus, the publicity just couldn’t hurt.”
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