16 Best Dance Movies (1977-2007)

7 05 2007


我最喜愛的 16 套跳舞電影 ! 如你喜歡跳舞,不要錯過以下的任何一套!

They are my 16 favourite dance movies. I think they are the best dance movies  from 1977 to 2007, which are not only about dancing, but love, honor and dream! If you love dancing, don’t miss any one of them.

1977 – Saturday Night Fever (Disco)
1983 – Flashdance (Jazz)
1985 – White Nights (Tap/Ballet)
1987 – Dirty Dancing (Ballroom)
1993 – Strictly Ballroom (Ballroom)
1996 – Shall We Dansu (Ballroom)
1998 – Tango Del Atardecer (Tango)
2000 – Billy Elliot (Ballet)
2000 – Center Stage (Ballet)
2001 – Moulin Rouge (Broadway/Musical)
2002 – Chicago (Broadway/Tango/Musical)
2003 – Honey (Jazz/Funk/Hip Hop)
2004 – Shall We Dance (Ballroom)
2004 – Dirty Dancing Havana Night (Ballroom)
2004 – You Got Served (Hip Hop)
2007 – Stomp the Yard (Hip Hop)

Saturday Night Fever Dance Scene

White Nights Opening from Mikhail Baryshnikov

Strictly Ballroom MV

Tango Del Atardecer

Billy Elliot Trailer

CenterStage – Final Dance Scene

Moulin Rouge Trailer 

Chicago Cell Block Tango

Honey – Jessica Alba Dancing

Shall we Dance – Tango

You Got Served – Movie Trailer

Stomp The Yard Trailer





Flash Dance, JLo & Hyori Lee

1 03 2007

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中國人有句話 : ”橋唔怕舊,最緊要受!

前人有很多東西都是歷久常新、百看/百聽不厭。FlashDance 是 1983 的電影,相常喜歡跳舞的人都一定看過。故事很簡單,內容是一個女主角日間在地盤做苦力賺錢維生,晚間則在酒吧為理想而跳舞。其中一場經典舞戲是在櫈上跳舞再以水淋身。

有關跳舞的電影很多時,橋段也如 FlashDance一樣,就是人們為了生活只好放棄跳舞,若繼續為理想,只好把跳舞當成為興趣或兼職。跳舞電影,如 “Honey“、”Step Up” 也是這個路線,之前有提及的 Reality TV - DanceLife 也是頗相同。好像很消極似的,但是故事的背後/最後,其實也告訴觀眾,堅持理想的重要,有成功的可能,也令更多人喜歡跳舞,給他們動力去學習舞蹈。

而現實呢? 當然要成為一個全職的 Dancer 不是一件易的事 ,尤其是在香港,對很多人來說,跳舞從來都不是一種職業(Profession) ,只是一種興趣 ! 在商業的社會,藝術從來不是文化,而是消閑娛樂。那是一件可悲的事! 我很幸運地,在身邊有很多很有 “Passion” 的舞者 。

Let me share with you the ever-lasting theme with lots of dance scenes.  Enjoy the clips below. I recommend you to watch it from the bottom to the Top (from clip 4 to clip 1) .

Why? Hope I can explain it well….some people said Hyori Lee “copied” JLO.(P.S I don’t mind coz I still like sexy diva Hyori).  Then, Hyori sang JLO’s I’m Glad with FlashDance dancing scene at a live performance(clip1).  JLO procduced the music video”I’m Glad”(clip3) based on FlashDance story, which she was in sued by the Flashdance copyright owner. And Hyori’s Anyclub MV(clip2)  got the same story plot as the FlashDance original Movie(clip4).

clip1 – Hyori Lee – I’m Glad Live

clip2 – Hyori Lee – Anymotion

clip3 – Jennifer Lopez – I’m Glad
 

clip4 – Flash Dance (1983) dance intro