Dance Movie: Step Up

Fans of DIRTY DANCING and FAME will dig the moves in this tale of a sullen young thug named Tyler (Channing Tatum) who winds up doing community service at the Baltimore High School for the Performing Arts. At first he's just smirking and mopping the floors, but then Nora (Jenna Dewan), a talented dancer and choreographer, loses her partner to a fractured ankle mere weeks before the big showcase, and Tyler steps in as her partner. At first he doesn't take it too seriously but then again, he's never had a real chance in life. His best friend from the street (Damaine Radcliff) gets jealous and forces Tyler to decide which side of the tracks he thinks he belongs on. Meanwhile, romance heats up between Tyler and Nora, and there's some side business with the school's hip-hop composer (Mario) falling in love with Nora's hot friend Lucy (Drew Sidora), who is going out with an older man--a successful artist who cheats on her.

Information from Golden Village Website

Here's the mass dance done during the movie that I found quite cool.

The song is to Drew Sidora's "'til the Dawn", Enjoy.

Although I've heard mixed reviews about the movie, I personally thought the movie was good. True that there weren't so much dance scenes and more story telling, I guess some parts of the movie did teach us a thing or two about dancing itself.

Quote I always remembered there was this one scene where Nora (the female lead) was trying to convince the Director to let her team up with Tyler (the male lead) to be her stand in partner and they were discussing about "suitable" alternatives and Tyler made the comment that they were talking about dance like "it was rocket-science, or something".

Dancing at the end of the day, be it salsa, tango, rock and roll or just good old Zouk shaking, should just be the feeling of movement to the tune and the song. Simple as that.