It’s rare for a documentary to inspire applause during the feature, but there you have the power of Amanda Lipitz’s Step, an inspiring crowd-pleaser that provides a positive look at the lives of every day teens in Baltimore, living in the shadow of Freddie Gray and the subsequent unrest related to his death. Step is a universal story of triumph, following a year in the life of a dance team at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women as their seniors get accepted into school, experience heartbreak, and ultimately make in-roads in step competitions, crafting an elegant and powerful dance inspired by Black Lives Matter and their neighborhoods. The film provides a means of expression without veering too far into the grit of the street and the realities of the domestic struggles. The team’s seniors are confronted with paying for school, filing Fasfa forms and applications, while...
- 1/31/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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