The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.
NYTimes Review:
The sight of a roomful of modern New York City fifth graders determinedly going through the paces of traditional ballroom dancing — the fox trot, the rumba, even the sultry tango — has a certain charming incongruity. The dances, with their old-style Astaire-and-Rogers urbanity, fit oddly with the unlithe bodies and dressed-down urban attitudes of today's American schoolchildren. Nonetheless, thanks to a program organized by the American Ballroom Theater, students in 60 New York elementary schools not only learn the steps and postures but also display them in an annual tournament. Their competition is the subject of a slight, charming documentary directed by Marilyn Agrelo. It is the latest crowd-pleasing documentary to use a narrative device long relied upon by fictional sports movies: the road to the big game. — A. O. Scott, The New York Times
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Heather Berman | Self |
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Emma Therese Biegacki | Self |
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Eva Carrozza | Self |
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Evangelina Carrozzo | Self |
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Paul Daggett | Self |
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Graciela Daniele | Self - Final Competition Judge |
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Pierre Dulaine | Self - Organizer and MC of the Final Dance Competition |
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Leslie Freu | Self - Teacher PS 112 |
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Tara Devon Gallagher | Self |
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Madeleine Hackney | Self |
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Charlotte Jorgensen | Self - Final Competition Judge |
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Rodney Lopez | Self |
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Victoria Malvagno | Self |
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Stacee Mandeville | Self |
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Terri Mintzer | Self - Teacher PS 144 |
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Nell Mooney | Self |
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Michelle Officer | Self - Final Competition Judge |
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Daniel Ponickly | Self |
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Danielle Quisenberry | Self |
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Ann Reinking | Self - Final Competition Judge |
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Yomaira Reynoso | Self - Teacher PS 115 |
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Michael Richardson | Self - Final Competition Judge |
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Allison Sheniak | Self - Teacher PS 150 |
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Solomon Singer | Self |
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Alex Tchassov | Self |
| Director | Marilyn Agrelo |
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| Writer | Amy Sewell | |
| Producer | Marilyn Agrelo, Brian David Cange, W. Wilder Knight II, Amy Sewell | |
| Musician | Joseph Baker, Steven Lutvak | |
| Photography | Claudia Raschke | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Edition Release Date | Oct 18, 2005 |
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