Mad Hot Ballroom DVD 2005 Ein Film, der aus der Reihe tanzt! / Directed by Marilyn Agrelo / Documentary about ballroom dance program

EU 111817

UPC 4010884531169

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: English 2.0

SUBTITLES: English HOH, English, Danish, German, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish

Total time: 101 minutes

English Summary:

Mad Hot Ballroom is a 2005 American documentary film directed and co-produced by Marilyn Agrelo and written and co-produced by Amy Sewell, about a ballroom dance program in the New York City Department of Education, the New York City public school system for fifth graders. Several styles of dance are shown in the film, such as tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba and merengue

Based on a feature article written by Sewell, Mad Hot Ballroom looks inside the lives of 11-year-old New York City public school kids who journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves along the way. Told from the students' perspectives as the children strive toward the final citywide competition, the film chronicles the experiences of students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst and Washington Heights. The students are united by an interest in the ballroom dancing lessons, which builds over a 10-week period and culminates in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. As the teachers cajole their students to learn the intricacies of the various disciplines, Agrelo intersperses classroom footage with the students' musings on life; many of these reveal an underlying maturity.

German Summary:

Mad Hot Ballroom ist der preisgekrönte Film, der Viert- und Fünftklässler auf ihrem Ausflug in die Welt des Turniertanzes begleitet. Er erzählt aus ihrer ehrlichen und unbeküm-merten Perspektive, wie sie lernen, dass es beim Tanzen nicht nur um einige Schritte geht sondern ums Leben. „Sie werden aus dem Schmunzeln nicht mehr heraus-kommen', wenn ganz normale Stadt-kinder Merengue, Tango und Rumba tanzen und sich buchstäblich in „Damen und Herren" verwandeln, als sie sich auf das heiß ersehnte stadtweite Tanzturnier vorbereiten.