5 Best Dance Movies
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These are dance movies, not musicals. A guilty pleasure for those who grew up taking dance lessons and failed miserably or are dancers at heart. Dance movies are a cult phenomenon and teach us important lessons about working hard, stepping up, stomping the yard and shaking your stuff.
5. Footloose
In a town where dance is banned Kevin Bacon's character shows people that dance isn't forbidden... it's fun! Full of iconic music and dance moments, Footloose is one of the first and best dance films. It was later turned into a musical for the stage and a later remake in 2011. The 1984 version is WAAAAYYY better, though. It's all about the Bacon...
4. Step Up
Set in a performing arts school in Baltimore, it stars a young Channing Tatum as a down and out break dancer who learns to love and heal himself through dance. It launched a huge trilogy of "Step Up" films and other break dancing inspired movies. Plus, Channing Tatum takes his shirt off. This automatically puts Step Up into the Top 5 for us.
3. Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is the story of a young boy who wants to become a ballerino. In a world of football, boxing and harsh realities, he just wants to dance! You feel inspired by Billy's real life journey into loving the arts and finding his talents. That last scene where you see his dream come true in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is awesome.
2. Dirty Dancing
The lift that launched dance films around the world and coined the term, "Nobody puts baby in a corner." It was later adapted into a stage musical and helped launched Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze into full stardom.
1. Centre Stage
This is the best dance movie because it has real ballerinas in it. Yes, the acting is pretty terrible but the dancing is great and the script is pretty accurate to the struggles that dancers go through while trying to make it. Other films try to make dance about things bigger than themselves but Centre Stage said it best, "Give me tiaras and boys in tights, any day!"
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