If we really crunch the numbers, there is a surprising amount of dance in movies.
Musicals would be the quintessential medium of all dance, song, and acting, but today we decided to focus on the films that inject a single dance scene. In some films, it is almost hard to forget the iconic dance scene, and in other cases, the scene is the main event or a major turning point of the film.
In today’s episode we have friend, scholar, and dance movie enthusiast NATHAN SCOLL, talking about our love for dance scenes in movies and what the dances are doing as an integral moment in the film.
NATHAN SCOLL is a film scholar/practitioner/instructor who emphasizes cinematic genre, narrative, and aesthetics. He has just completed his doctoral dissertation entitled "Dance Movies: From The Red Shoes to Black Swan and Beyond" which he hopes will see publication as the first book on dance movies.
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The Big Lebowski | Gutterballs (1998)
Dir. Ethan + Joel Coen
Chor. Bill and Jacqui Landrum
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
Dir. David Mirkin
Chor. Smith Wordes
Burning (2018)
Dir. Lee Chang-dong
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