Pirouetting, toe-tapping, hoofing, gliding, stepping, strutting. Dance moves in the movies are certainly not in short supply.
Ballet meets hip hop in tonight’s dancing drama where Julia Stiles plays a bereaved middle class teen who has her love for dance reawakened by a classmate (Sean Patrick Thomas) at her new inner city school. Read more about it here.
Here’s the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXo6R8waYpk&fs=1
It's showing on Watch at 9pm, but in the meantime, here’s a quick waltz through some other top dancing films:
Jennifer Beals goes from welding to ‘what a feeling’.
A small town bible belt ban on rock n' roll sees Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer and Sarah Jessica Parker secretly loosening their harnessed hooves.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
A young Sarah Jessica Parker does some more clandestine hoofing - this time to enter a competition behind her disapproving father’s back.
Raunchy routines in a rowdy drinking hole in New York.
Raunchy routines in a rowdy drinking hole in Yorkshire.
Bring It On
Kirsten Dunst waves her pom poms in a cheerleading championship.
Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta struts his stuff to the Bee Gees in his delightful disco garb.
Shall We Dance?
Ballroom dancing dramas for Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez and Susan Sarandon.
Strictly Ballroom
Ballroom dancing dramas down under.
Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
Showgirls
Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon get lap dancing.
Stepping Out
Liza Minnelli and Julie Walters get tap dancing.
Billy Elliot
Ballet, Billy, and more Julie Walters.
Fame
Loads of leg warmers in the Big Apple.
Come on admit it, there's got to be at least one film from this list that got you trying to master the dance routine...
I once spent a good hour in my lounge determined to nail those Night Fever moves. The overhead lamp was never the same after that night.
