After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering.
Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country.
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School.
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Specter of the Rose (1946)
Directed by Ben Hecht Starring Judith Anderson Michael Checkov Ivan Kirov Viola Essen. Music by George Antheil.
Specter of the Rose: Lights of the City dance sequence
Scene from the film "Specter of the Rose" (1946). A troupe of "modern" dancers audition their new ballet and George Antheil gets to make fun of himself. Written ...
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