Exciting New Ballroom Dancing Film Released!
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'Beautifully observed, wickedly funny and easily one of the most uplifting films of the year'
The Herald
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As
ballroom dancing continues to delight television
audiences in programmes such as ‘Strictly
Come Dancing’ it is nice to see it proving
equally popular with cinema goers, with the success
of films such as ‘Shall We Dance?’
and the release of ‘Mad Hot
Ballroom’ this November.
This
inspiring documentary takes a look inside the
lives of eleven-year-old New York City public
school kids who journey into the world of ballroom
dancing and discover more about themselves along
the way. Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious
perspectives, they are transformed from typical
urban kids to “ladies and gentlemen,”
as they strive toward the final citywide competition.
Providing
unique insight into the incredible cultural diversity
that is truly the soul of New York City, first
time feature filmmaker Marilyn Agrelo profiles
several kids from three elementary schools who
are at this dynamic and intriguing age - when
becoming that “cool” teenager vies
with familiar innocence while learning the merengue,
rumba, tango, the foxtrot and swing.
American
Ballroom Theater’s (ABrT) Dancing Classrooms
is the nonprofit organisation that currently provides
instruction in ballroom dance at over sixty public
schools in New York City . The program was introduced
in two schools ten years ago. In ten weeks of
intense, required classes, the program’s
skilled and passionately inventive teachers take
their students through a dance repertory: meringue,
rumba, tango, foxtrot and swing dancing. In the
process, we see boys and girls learn a whole lot
more than just how to make the right steps.
‘Irresistable!
A kind of Spellbound crossed with Strictly
Ballroom!'
Kenneth
Turan, Los Angeles Times |
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Where to see 'Mad Hot Ballroom'...
Opens 25th November
Curzon Soho
Cineworld Shaftesbury
Odeon Covent garden
Cineworld West India Quay
Odeon Swiss Cottage
Screen on Baker St
The Barbican
Vue Islington
Cineworld Chelsea
Picturehouse Clapham
Vue Shepherds Bush
Odeon Kingston
UCI Filmworks Greenwich
Cineworld Enfield
Duke of Yorks, Brighton
Cineworld Birmingham BrdSt
Broadway Nottingham
Watershed, Bristol
Cineworld Sheffield
Showroom Sheffield
Cornerhouse Manchester
UCI Filmworks Manchester
Cineworld Glasgow Renfrew
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Cineworld Edinburgh
IRELAND
Irish Film Institute
Cineworld Dublin
VUE Dublin
Movies @ Dundrum
2nd December
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
9th December
The Coronet
The Tricycle
Cineworld Wandsworth
Cineworld Ashford
Cineworld Milton Keynes
Cineworld Stevenage
Cineworld Cardiff
Cineworld Crawley
Cineworld Bolton
16th December
Little Theatre Bath
Belmont Aberdeen
23rd December
Cineworld Feltham
Chapter Cardiff
Cineworld Bradford
Cineworld Castleford
Cineworld Wolverhampton
Tyneside, Newcastle
Cineworld Ashton
Orpheus Bristol
30th December
GFT
6th January
Watermans Brentford
Lighthouse Wolverhampton
Metro Derby
Cine City Norwich
Warwick arts
Birmingham MAC
Picturehouse Exeter
13th January
Phoenix Leicester
Canterbury Cinema 3
David Lean, Croydon
Bradford Pictureville
20th January
New Park Chichester
27th January
Sevenoaks Playhouse
3rd February
Forum Northampton
Royal Leamington
10th February
Riverfront Newport
Taliesin Swansea
Haverhill Arts Centre
17th February
Riverside Studios
You can see the film's website at www.madhotballroom.com or email dance@metrodomegroup.co.uk for more information.
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