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Actors: Amanda Schull, Susan May Pratt, Sasha Radetsky, Ilia Kulik
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Center Stage |
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A young dancer has just been accepted into a New York dance school, with the hope of making it as a well known dancer. She will get to know a variety of other dancers who become her friends and help her through rough times.
She will experience love, hate, and making new friends.
While she is at the school she meets cooper, a well known dancer. She falls and love, just to find out he is using her. When she gets cast as a lead in his ballet, she will have to learn how to contol her emotions to be the best dancer she can be.
--Tawney Albrecht, Resident Scholar
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Students from across the nation audition to join the prestigious American Ballet Academy. The movie follows the lives of five students and the trials and tribulations they face as they all compete for spots in the best dance company in the nation. Side stories include a love triangle between two students and a choreographer, a bulimic, arrogant ballerina who doesn't know if dancing is her true passion, and the blossoming of a street-wise tough girl into a sophisticated young lady. Center Stage is a good-hearted, clean cut movie that all dancers will enjoy.
--kelly , Resident Scholar
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This movie is about a group of students who have been accepted into the American Ballet Academy and are competing for spots in the American Ballet Company.
Essentially the story is about Jodie Sawyer, a girl who is told by Jonathon, the director of the ABC that she doesn't have great feet or the right body type that he looks for in the people that he chooses for the ABC. This makes dancing become a hassle for Jodie, who loves dancing, and cannot imagine life without it.
Jodie becomes involved with Cooper Nielson who is a dancer with the ABC, and eventually wins the role as the lead dancer in the piece that he has choreographed for the workshop which determines who wins the places into ABC.
Through the movie a love triangle is formed with Cooper & Charlie (an absolute hottie played by Suscha Rodesky).
--Julia, Resident Scholar
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Center Stage is a very entertaining story about young dancers who want to make it into the American Ballet Company. The competition is fierce and some people will do anything for the goals. Center Stage is an amazing tale about a a female ballet dancer that just wants what her heart desires.
--Cameron Fine, Resident Scholar
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This is the story of a group of young students studying at the American Ballet Academy, and the struggles they go through as they learn that the world of professional ballet isn't all beauty. They face challenges, both in the studio and out, and the main character faces a love triangle. Everything leads up to the "workshop" at the end of the year, when all problems are solved.
--Lauren Socha, Resident Scholar
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Young ballet students train at the ABA while struggling with their own lives. There is romance and lots of dancing to keep you entertained!
--Emily, Resident Scholar
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Six young students attend the ABC school for ballet. At the end of the story they all find out if a live of dance was meant for them.
--kaity loder, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Center Stage |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- dancer
Training/apprentice story
Yes
Lover is...
- totally uninterested
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
- dancer
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
- (woman) very skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- school
- theater
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of dancing
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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