Spellsong and Dervish Dancer

[VanceMadrox]

The feat Spellsong has Bardic Performance class ability as a prerequisite.

The Dervish Dance Archetype replaces Bardic Performance with Battle Dance.

The text of Dervish Dance states "Battle dancing is treated as bardic performance for the purposes of feats, abilities, effects, and the like that affect bardic performance"

My question then is can Dervish Dancer Bard take Spellsong?

[Hawkson]

Don't see why not.

[VanceMadrox]

I tend to agree.

All feats relating to Bardic Performance have Bardic Performance as a pre req.

And if Battle Dance did not count there would be no reason for the clause about it specifically NOT working with lingering performance.

HeroLab marks this combination as illegal though.

[VanceMadrox]

Another question on this.

What about Archaeologist and spellsong?