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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.
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- 8 vittorie e 10 candidature
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- QuizThe three schools that the film follows are: PS 150 from the affluent Tribeca area; PS 112 from the primarily Italian and Asian area of Bensonhurst; and PS 115 from Washington Heights, a Dominican neighborhood where over 97% of the residents live below the poverty line.
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White chubby kid: My religion does not allow me to dance, and Mouhamed's does not allow him to dance either, so we have really enjoyed being DJs.
Mouhamed: Everybody has been very nice to me, although... I am... from another...
[hesitates]
Mouhamed: country.
- Curiosità sui creditiSome of the children add their observations about life in film clips during the credits.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Al Franken/Fountains of Wayne (2005)
- Colonne sonoreFEVER
by Peggy Lee
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Superb documentary about far, FAR more than dance
NYC has a 10 week Phys. Ed program that teaches ballroom dancing to 5th graders. Some of those kids can elect to join a team, similar to one in football, basketball, track, etc. -- of inter-school competition. This documentary follows the development, training, and competition of some of those teams.
While learning to dance and the competition is the overlying central theme of the narrative, the film is about far more.
Fifth graders will be typically six years old PLUS their grade level -- so most will be about eleven while some are 12 and a few are 10 years old. These students are at -- or a few degrees either side -- of the cusp of puberty. That stage is also graphically reflected in their heights --some are barely above 3 feet while others approach six. Many of the kids come from neighborhoods in which most are disadvantaged, crime ridden, and fractured families while some are from the reverse.
The film brings back to us what it was like to be a kid (and maybe wonder which of those we see here that we would have been most like?), the whole process of learning, of growing up, of the transition of thoughts and expectations kids have about what lies beyond puberty, the relation between caring adults (teachers) and children, the emotions teachers have about the ones they lose and the ones they win, etc.
I've often wondered if -- maybe -- many of us have a hidden, secret talent -- to be a Serena Williams, a Yo Yo Mah, Carol King, W.H. Auden, Charles Eames, etc. -- but our hidden talent has never been discovered.
The NYC program filmed here discovers some of those talents that would otherwise remain hidden. And this documentary shows, through the lens of dancing, some of the process of a crucial stage in human development and our dependence on our peers and empathic teachers/mentors.
And all of this is done without a voice over narration. At times I was a little confused about which kids of which school we were watching. But I learned to relax -- it's the panorama that's most important.
Great film.
It takes "Spellbound" as a model and advances it.
I'd welcome seeing 50 films of this quality a year.
While learning to dance and the competition is the overlying central theme of the narrative, the film is about far more.
Fifth graders will be typically six years old PLUS their grade level -- so most will be about eleven while some are 12 and a few are 10 years old. These students are at -- or a few degrees either side -- of the cusp of puberty. That stage is also graphically reflected in their heights --some are barely above 3 feet while others approach six. Many of the kids come from neighborhoods in which most are disadvantaged, crime ridden, and fractured families while some are from the reverse.
The film brings back to us what it was like to be a kid (and maybe wonder which of those we see here that we would have been most like?), the whole process of learning, of growing up, of the transition of thoughts and expectations kids have about what lies beyond puberty, the relation between caring adults (teachers) and children, the emotions teachers have about the ones they lose and the ones they win, etc.
I've often wondered if -- maybe -- many of us have a hidden, secret talent -- to be a Serena Williams, a Yo Yo Mah, Carol King, W.H. Auden, Charles Eames, etc. -- but our hidden talent has never been discovered.
The NYC program filmed here discovers some of those talents that would otherwise remain hidden. And this documentary shows, through the lens of dancing, some of the process of a crucial stage in human development and our dependence on our peers and empathic teachers/mentors.
And all of this is done without a voice over narration. At times I was a little confused about which kids of which school we were watching. But I learned to relax -- it's the panorama that's most important.
Great film.
It takes "Spellbound" as a model and advances it.
I'd welcome seeing 50 films of this quality a year.
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- Bob Pr.
- 27 lug 2005
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 8.117.961 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 45.348 USD
- 15 mag 2005
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 9.104.327 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 45 minuti
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- 1.85 : 1
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