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3) Flashdance
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18 year old woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Alex struggles to gain independence, finds love, and realize her dream--to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.
4) Fados
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Portuguese
Description
Explore a musical genre that combines African and Brazilian origins into a fusion of cinema, song, dance, and instruments. Includes legends Maria Severa and Amália Rodrigues, modern stars Mariza and Camane, and more.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew called 'The Mob'. When a wealthy businessman threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands of people, they all work together to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.
6) Ema
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Follows the story of a reggaeton dancer who embarks on a journey of liberation when her marriage falls apart after they must give up their adopted son.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace.
8) Bravetown
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a run in with the law, Josh, a popular New York DJ, is sentenced to spend the last of his underage years with his estranged father in the small town of Paragon, North Dakota. Struggling with a sense of belonging, he meets high school dance team captain Mary who shows him this small town has more to offer than he imagined.
9) High strung
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A classical dancer helps her violinist friend who turned out to be an illegal alien to win a competition and a scholarship to the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts.
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Sara wants to be a ballerina, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her mother. She moves in with her father, whom she has not seen for a long time, in Chicago, mainly in the ghetto. She gets transferred to a new school where she is the only white girl there. Her life takes a turn for the better when she is friends with Chenille. Later, she falls in love with Chenille's brother, Derek.
When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon...
11) First position
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Profiles six contestants in the Youth America Grand Prix, a prestigious competition for aspiring young ballet dancers.
12) Step
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The senior year of a girls' high school step dance team against the background of inner city Baltimore. Empowered by their teachers, coaches, families, and each other, they strive to win a championship and go to college.
13) Fame
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."
The story of the joys and disappointments of eight talented teenagers at a high school for the performing arts in New York City. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers...
14) Center stage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Vibrant and supremely gifted, the ballet students of a prestigious New York dance school are those who devote themselves to their art, sacrificing the normal loves and conflicts of youth, they vie for a place at an ultra-selective dance company.
The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
Dirty dancing: The summer of 1963 innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
Dirty dancing: Havana nights: On the eve of Cuba's revolution, a young American woman discovers a passion for dance and for her sultry...
16) Bobbi Jene
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After a decade of stardom in Israel, American dancer Bobbi Jene Smith decides to leave behind her prominent position at the world-famous Batsheva Dance Company, as well as the love of her life, to return to the U.S. to create her own boundary breaking art. Tracking the personal and professional challenges that await her, Elvira Lind's film lovingly and intimately documents the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition"--Container.
17) Dirty dancing
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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Description
The summer of 1963 innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
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