Center stage

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Movie
German title Center stage
Original title Center stage
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Nicholas Hytner
script Carol Heikkinen
production Laurence Mark
music Edgar De Lange
George Fenton
Diane Warren
camera Geoffrey Simpson
cut Tariq Anwar
occupation

Center Stage is an American dance film from 2000. In 2008 the sequel Center Stage: Turn It Up was released .

action

After Jody is accepted into the American Ballet Academy, a dream comes true for her . In order to be taken over by the “Company” at the end of the year, she and her friends train hard, which does not leave everyone without a trace. For example, Maureen is getting deeper and deeper into bulimia to maintain her weight and is demanding too much of herself to do justice to her ambitious mother.

During the year Jody and Charlie get closer, but she then gets involved with Cooper, the star of the Ballet Academy. However, this makes them after a night rebuffed what they initially not realized.

At the end of the year there is a “workshop” in which it is decided who will be taken on by the company as a professional dancer. Sergei and Maureen dance together, but because of her anorexia it becomes more and more difficult for her and she loses the fun of dancing because she only realizes her mother's dream and not her own. Eva is only allowed to dance a small role here because Jonathan, the head of the Academy, doesn't like the fact that she didn't take training seriously over the course of the year and was often late.

Jody, Charlie and Eric study a modern ballet under Cooper's direction, but here there is tension between Jody and Cooper, because she now realizes that he was not interested in her and he criticized her all the time for her poor technique. Charlie still manages to convince Jody that she can dance well. She regains her self-confidence and also manages to convince the jury during the performance.

Eric, on the other hand, injured himself during rehearsals, but was taken anyway. Eva, who dances instead of Maureen when she realizes that ballet is not her dream, as well as Charlie become members of the company. Jody declines the offer and starts her career in Coopers Company, because Jonathan never found her good enough and she doesn't always want to dance in the second row. However, she does not fall in love with Cooper again, but stays with Charlie. Maureen gives up dancing, you can see her in a final sequence at the university .

background

Every year there are entrance exams and auditions for ballet academies around the world . How many dancers are accepted depends on the respective academy. The dancers receive a well-founded dance education over a number of years and graduate from the academy with a diploma. Usually there is a dance gala where representatives of ballet companies watch and recruit the best dancers for companies.

criticism

“[…] There are many dance films - and somehow they all show the 'American Dream', the dream of becoming a star from the little ballet rat. Center Stage makes no difference either - a little bit of chorus line , a little bit of flash dance  - and yet it is still fun to watch the mix here as well. What is particularly pleasing here are the many young and fresh faces in the ensemble. "

- moviemaster.de

"[...] Center Stage is definitely a great dance film (even if the special art and aesthetics of ballet may not be accessible to everyone), but its plot weakens enormously, which is mainly due to the fact that the least stereotypical subplots unfortunately also the least elaborated. Overall, it is very nice to look at, but just as flat in terms of content as a double episode of Melrose Place . Indeed, it seems that the better teenage films were all made in the eighties. "

- filmszene.de

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Center Stage . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Film review for Center Stage , moviemaster.de. Updated August 31, 2002. Retrieved May 26, 2010.
  3. ↑ Film review for Center Stage , filmszene.de. Retrieved May 26, 2010.

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