[] All That Jazz [] "Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this vibrant and spectacular film follows Fosse's alter ego. Joe Gideon in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. His womanizing both supports and debilitates him as he juggles his mistress, ex-wife and beloved daughter. Hovering over all of his excess is an angel. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences, lavish production numbers and fabulous sets." [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Band Wagon, The [] Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Billy Elliot [] Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Center Stage [] The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks proves to be both invigorating and painful. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Chorus Line, A [] In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Company, The [] A behind-the-scenes look at the world of dance as seen through the eyes of a talented young dancer on the brink of success [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Dance With Me [] Rafael, a young Cuban whose mother has just died, comes to the U.S. to meet his father, who runs a dance studio and is unaware of his paternal status. While dancers prepare for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas, it becomes clear that Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the studio's best hope for the championship. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Dirty Dancing [] Naive 17 year old vacationing with her parents in the Catskills meets and becomes romantically involved with the resort's dance instructor. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Fame [] Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric." [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Flashdance [] Alex Owens is a Pittsburgh steel worker by day and an exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company. With encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Girls Just Want to Have Fun [] Janey and her friends pull-out all stops to achieve their mission: To appear dancing on national television. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Hairspray [] In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Happy Feet [] Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection, Mumble and his true friends set out to find the true cause of the famine. Through the friends trials and perils, Mumble learns many things about his frozen world, not the least of which being that his toe tapping talent may be what he needs to save his people. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Honey [] Honey is a girl from the streets who works in a record store, teaches the occasional dance class at a community center, and treks downtown every weekend to hit the clubs and try out some new hip-hop dance moves. There, she meets a music video producer who offers her a chance to be a choreographer. But Honey decides that she is unwilling to pay his price. Determined to pick herself back up, Honey goes back to the inner-city of her youth with plans of starting a dance school. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] How She Move [] Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood. There, she defies all the rules to achieve her dreams as she re-kindles her passion for the competitive world of step dancing. She gets the chance to get out of her drug and crime infested neighborhood to attend an exclusive academy. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Love n' Dancing [] Jessica is a bored-with-life middle-school English teacher who meets Jake, a West Coast Swing champion dancer. The two have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what has been missing in their lives. But Jessica has a workaholic fiancé who's not a bad guy - when he's not on his Blackberry. Corinne is Jake's former dance partner, who just won't let Jake get away from the dangling carrot of a rekindled relationship. Now, Jake and Jessica must try to elude all obstacles, romantic or otherwise, to stay focused on their goal - winning the World Title and winning each other. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Mad Hot Ballroom [] Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing, and from their candid and hilarious perspectives, reveal pieces of themselves along the way. This school program started in 1994 and today has over 6,000 kids from 60 schools involved. Found in non-fiction videos in 793.33 M178. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Red Shoes, The [] Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Saturday Night Fever [] The story of a Brooklyn store clerk who is a Saturday night disco king; he begins to question the narrowness of his perspective when he becomes influenced by his more sophisticated dance partner. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Save the Last Dance [] When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a black classmate and her handsome brother, Derek. Sara and Derek's shared love for dance leads to romance-- and opposition from their families and friends. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Shall We Dance [] A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Shall We Dance [] A middle-aged businessman's dull life takes an interesting turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class just to meet the beautiful dance instructor. In Japanese with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Step Up [] Tyler is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks. The only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending an elite school of dance in Baltimore. The only thing standing in the way of her brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora¹s attention. With sparks flying on and off stage, Tyler realizes he has just one performance to prove that he can step up to a life far larger than he ever imagined. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Stomp the Yard [] After the death of his younger brother, D.J., a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping,' an old traditional dance performed by African American fraternities and soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top two campus fraternities. Both, want and need D.J.'s fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Strictly Ballroom [] A championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules and his ugly duckling dancing partner make their dreams come true together. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Swing Kids [] Two friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Take the Lead [] Pierre Dulane is a former professional ballroom dancer who volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system. At first his background clashes with his students' tastes, but together Dulane and his students create a completely new style of dance. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] Turning Point, The [] Two friends who started in ballet are reunited after many years; one is now a star ballerina, the other a Midwestern housewife/dance teacher whose daughter is embarking on her own ballet career. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ---------------------------------------- [] You Got Served [] At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But a crew from the suburbs moves in and crashes the party, stealing their dancers, and their moves. Elgin and David are street dancers who will have to pull together in order to believe in themselves, their crew, and in their dreams if they are to represent the streets and win the challenge and the money that is up for grabs. [This film is in the following lists:] A Dancer's Life ----------------------------------------