Before that, she was an athlete, which gives her dance performances a lot of strength but perhaps not as much technique as the others. While most of the girls have been studying ballet since they could walk, she has only been dancing for five years.
She is willing to do whatever it takes for him as well as for herself. They are both equally committed to being the one dancer selected to join the company but in every other way they are different.ĭiana Silvers, who made a strong impression in " Booksmart" and "Ma," plays Kate Sanders, a student who is on scholarship, low on money, and is the only child of a loving single father willing to do whatever it takes to support her dream. The competition between the two young women in this film is amplified further. It's not just internal ballet is a world where every body is judged down to the smallest (or not-small-enough) detail. That elevates some of the drama about body image, for example. There's no stage of life and no field that's more high-pressure, and classical ballet is based on near-impossible standards of perfection, without a foot or a hair out of place (see " Black Swan"). Stories about teenagers are automatic emotion intensifiers add ballet and the stakes are ramped even higher. "Birds of Paradise" is along those lines, as it tells of two American teenage girls in France, competing with others to be the one dancer selected to join the company of the Opéra national de Paris. But in 2000, "Center Stage" imprinted on its fans less for the dancing than for the (sorry, fans) soapy storylines about the competition between young dancers to see who will be a prima ballerina, with issues of parental pressure, perfectionist premier maîtres de ballet, eating disorders, injury, and the very rigid, even impossible standards of traditional dance companies versus experiments with more contemporary music and steps. That one featured sensational dancing by real-life ballet stars, including a stunning "Le Corsaire" by Mikhail Baryshnikov. (An exquisite outdoor dance to "My Funny Valentine" in the pouring rain has a movie's worth of insight into the commitment of a ballet dance.) 1977's "The Turning Point" had great performances by Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft as aging ballerinas confronting the roads not taken. It is an intimate, subtle film with vivid insider details, based on her experiences as a ballet dancer.
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The all-time best non-documentary ballet movie is Robert Altman's 2003 " The Company," co-written by the movie's star, Neve Campbell. There's really only one way to evaluate "Birds of Paradise," and that is this: Is it better, worse, or as good as "Center Stage"?Įvery generation gets one key ballet movie.
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