Other Categories: Comedy, Music, Drama. Attempting to bring traditional Bhangra to the world, a dancer prepares for an international competition against a rival with dreams of her own. Other Categories: Romance, Comedy. Recent divorcee Faith goes into a dance contest to save her dance studio, she meets Jimmy Hope and rediscovers her faith.
Other Categories: Comedy, Drama, Family. Failing to find success on Broadway, April goes to her hometown and is recruited to train a misfit group of dancers for a big competition. Other Categories: Drama, Music. When a dancer is provoked his evil employer, naturally he will be out to prove his mettle. Other Categories: Drama, Music, Musical. A small-town girl travels to Los Angeles and ends up finding her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer. Featuring Cher and Christina Aguilera.
Emily goes to Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer. She clicks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighbourhood is threatened by Emily's father's housing plans. Other Categories: Drama, Music, Crime. Tyler Gage gets the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalising a performing arts school, getting him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer.
Other Categories: Drama. The rise, fall, and then rise again of this Hong Kong street dance crew. Other Categories: Animation, Adventure, Comedy. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her home for Paris, where she passes for someone else at the Grand Opera house. IMDb rating: 7.
Other Categories: Documentary. Looking behind the scenes. A young street gang in Mexico spends their time attending parties. After a mix-up with a cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U. Enter: the dance movie. Real life would be so much better if everyone broke out into spontaneous, but highly choreographed dance routines, at any given moment.
But, until the sweet, sweet day that this becomes the cultural norm, we can try our best to live vicariously through cinema. Watch Now. What more could be asked for? If every once and a while, more people took the time out of their day to appreciate that there exists an minute masterpiece about a penguin just wants to dance, our society would run smoother.
This movie has tap dancing, Brittany Murphy, and it tackles climate change, it's required viewing. Hello yes J. Lo again. Is there a character introduction in cinematic history that can go toe to toe with her pole dancing to a Fiona Apple song?
I think not. The fact that this film inspired a wildly successful Broadway musical should tell you enough. Billy is just a little English boy that just wants to do ballet, so get ready to have your heartstrings tugged. What's the Tomatometer? Follow Us. Photo by Courtesy Everett Collection 30 Essential Dance Movies As seminal dance film Save the Last Dance turns 20, we look at the best dance films ever made… and why the Julia Stiles favorite is just a bit too off-beat to make the cut.
Dancers Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Directed By: Herbert Ross. Critics Consensus: The dance sequences are exhilarating, but everything else about this movie is sloppy and generic. Directed By: Christopher B. Critics Consensus: An attractive Jessica Alba and energetic dance numbers provide some lift to this corny and formulaic movie.
Directed By: Bille Woodruff. Critics Consensus: This trite teen romance has too little plot and not enough dancing. Directed By: Anne Fletcher. Critics Consensus: While Stomp the Yard contains impressive musical and dance numbers, it loses its momentum during the intervening soap opera-style subplots. Directed By: Sylvain White. Directed By: Adrian Lyne. Directed By: Alan Metter. Critics Consensus: On stage, A Chorus Line pulled back the curtain to reveal the hopes and fears of showbiz strivers, but that energy and urgency is lost in the transition to the big screen.
Directed By: Richard Attenborough. Critics Consensus: Viewers willing to sit through soapy plot contrivances to see some excellent dancing might enjoy Center Stage ; for everyone else, there's still always Fame. Directed By: Nicholas Hytner. Directed By: Taylor Hackford. Critics Consensus: There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. Critics Consensus: Mao's Last Dancer has a stirring story to tell, but excessive sentimentality and leaden pacing keep this biopic from hitting its marks gracefully.
Directed By: Bruce Beresford. Critics Consensus: The Turning Point is a handsomely-made resuscitation of Old Hollywood melodramas with a compelling duo at its center, but the formulaic script keeps this story from realizing its symphonic potential.
Critics Consensus: Magic Mike XXL has enough narrative thrust and beefy charm to deliver another helping of well-oiled entertainment, even if this sequel isn't quite as pleasurable as its predecessor.
Directed By: Gregory Jacobs. Critics Consensus: Like its winsome characters, Dirty Dancing uses impressive choreography and the power of song to surmount a series of formidable obstacles. Song and dance go back to the very beginnings of theatrical performance. The Greek tragedies were partly chanted; Shakespeare thinks nothing of interjecting a song. By assembling in a theatre, we license the performers to do whatever they can to entertain us: sing, dance, juggle, cavort.
The live presence of performers makes theatre a social event, in which the gala dress of the audience echoes the costumes onstage. But the cinema, once past the primitive phase when a stationary camera filmed a stage action, complete with proscenium arch and footlights, became more interior—a kind of seen novel, consumed in a private darkness and ever more skillfully imitating, with its camerawork, the shifts of consciousness.
As the movie audiences forgot the live performances of vaudeville, travelling opera companies, and small-town theatricals, and the upright piano lost its pride of place in the American home, the conventions of musical comedy seemed ever more incongruous. These conventions were always somewhat incongruous; the majority of musicals concerned show business, whose professionals would naturally demonstrate singing and dancing skills and might plausibly use them to enact their private lives.
But actors and actresses make up a tiny fraction of humanity, and backstage is a narrow world. It wore thin. Also, noting the particular foreign resistance to Hollywood musicals, one might speculate that there was something specifically American about these films—a brassy optimism and a galvanizing work ethic. From the muscularity of the performers to the dizzily wheeling multitudes of choral dancers and swimmers, the atmosphere is cheerfully industrial.
In this factory of American self-celebration, Kelly, who rose from the assembly line to the managerial level of choreographer and director, was ideally electric yet chaste.
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