Center Stage (2000 film)

Center Stage is an American dance film from 2000 In 2008, the Center Stage sequel appeared. Turn It Up.

Action

After Jody will be accepted at the American Ballet Academy, is for them a dream come true. To be covered by the " Company " at the end of the year, train them and their friends hard, which does not pass without trace at each. So Maureen device, for example, ever deeper into the bulimia to maintain their weight and requires himself to be her ambitious mother just to much from.

During the year, Jody and Charlie get closer, it can still be on Cooper, the star of the ballet academy. This makes them the brush-off, however, after a night of what they initially not realized.

At the end of the year there is a " workshop" in which it is decided who is accepted by the Company as a professional dancer. Sergei and Maureen dancing together, but she remembers this because of their anorexia getting heavier and it loses the fun of dancing, because it recognizes only be fulfilled the dream of her mother and not their own. Eva is allowed to dance only a small role here as it Jonathan, head of the Academy, not like the fact that she has not taken seriously in the course of the training, and often came too late.

Jody, Charlie and Eric study under Coopers line a modern ballet one, but it comes here to tensions between Jody and Cooper, because she now realizes that he was not really interested in her and he criticized all the time for their poor technique. Charlie succeeds nevertheless Jody to convince them that they can dance well. She wins back her self-confidence and also manages to convince the jury during the performance.

Eric, however, been injured during rehearsals, but is taken anyway. Even Eva dancing instead Maureen, as this recognizes that ballet is not her dream, and Charlie are members of the Company. Jody rejects, however, the offer and began her career in Coopers Company, as Jonathan was never good enough and they do not always want to dance only in the second row. However, they do not fall in love again in Cooperstown, but remains together with Charlie. Maureen is on the dancing, you see them in a final sequence at the university.

Background

Every year there are for ballet academies in the world entrance exams and auditions. How many dancers are recorded depends on the particular academy. The dancers get over a number of years an educated dance training and include the Academy with a diploma. There is usually a dance gala, watch the representatives of ballet companies and compete for the best dancers for companies.

Criticism

" [ ... ] There are many dance films - and somehow they all show the American Dream ', the dream of the little ballet rat to be a star. Since Center Stage makes no difference - a bit Chorus Line, a little bit Flashdance - and yet it's also fun again to watch the mixture. Encouraging especially the many young and unused faces in the ensemble. "

" [ ... ] Center Stage is certainly a great dance movie (even if the particular art and aesthetics of ballet might not be deducible for anyone), but weakens enormously in its plot, mainly because of the fact that the least stereotypical subplots unfortunately also the least developed. Overall, visually very nice to look at, but the content just as flat as a two-part episode of Melrose Place. It actually seems that the better teen movies were all made ​​in the eighties. "

2000 in film Screenplay Laurence Mark Film score George Fenton Diane Warren Geoffrey Simpson Tariq Anwar (film editor) The Crucible (1996 film) The Object of My Affection
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