You Got Served

Release year: Jan. 2004
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Tagline: If you want respect, you've got take it
Director: Chris Stokes
Casts: Omarion Grandberry
Marques Houston
Jennifer Freeman

First, I will tell you about the plot of this movie. In order to achieve thir dream of opening a recording studio, two friends (Omarion, houston) must first win their city's dance contest - a fierce competition that pits them against a group of tough street dancers.

To be honest, I do not really like the story of this movie. But I love all the dancers in this movie. This movie has high quality of hiphop boom after 2000.

If you are interested in urban music and its culture or hiphop dancing, I totaly recommend you to watch this movie!!

All That Jazz

Release year: 1992
Director: Bob Fosse
Casts: Roy Scheider
Jessica Lange
Leland Palmer and more...

This is the very very famous movie with derector, Bob Fosse.

Although Bob Fosse was too short for a dancer, he had perfected his technique as a performer, choreographer, and director while serving his tour of duty.


This dancing style, 'Fosse style', had chaged broadway and it is still in the light as a kind of jazz dance of the first rank.

TAP

Release year:1989
Genre: Drama
Tagline: The heartbeat of a dream has a rhythm all its own
Director: Nick Castle
Casts: Gregory Hines
Sammy Davis Jr.
Suzzanne Douglas and more


I do not do tap dancing but I am very interested in it.
I have never seen this movie before but I can tell you that this is a cool one.


Tap dancing has longer history than street dancing.
Tap dancing is now not really popular such as hip hop dancing but tap dancing is still growing.
As I told you that I can not tap unfortunately, and I do not know about tap dancing very well but I can see the dancers in this movie are reeeeeeeally good dancers.

I like this movie, not only because of the cast dancers quality but also the massage in this movie. I think this movie tells us that "the importance to be true to own" and "dream comes true". Even though you are very very old, you can still dream about something. Anyway, at the beggining of this movie, Max (the main character) have taken some mistakes in the past but throwing this movie, we can see the changing on him.

Because of the dancing and the massage (also the story), I reccomend you to watch this movie!

Save the Last Dance 2

In this movie, the message is "True to yourself." Sara is a girl who has been learning ballet since when she was a little. She worked really hard and she accepted by Juillard School and she is trying to be a prima ballerina there. Also she loves hip-hop music and its dance. She has a gift for both hip-hop dancing and ballet but they are very different. She needed to decide what she really want to be...
Biggest difference between ballet and hip-hop is the posture. Ballet it more about flying and flowing.
According to this movie,　hip-hop is soul, rap, R&B, and funk. For mose people today, hip-hop is about bling-bling. But before the bling-bling, such as the escalades, money, or alcholes, it is a form of cross-cultural communication, lifestyle, a language, and a fashion. Hip-hop is about a individual questioning the establishment, recombining, combining everything that came before, and about finding a new voice. But what hip-hop really is can be summed up in three words, "I am here."
Most of the hip-hop dancers don't even realize that there is a history behind every move. I want more people to know thier history and even I want to know more about them.