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FIVE DANCES

Writer-director Alan Brown collaborated with acclaimed choreographer Jonah Bokaer to create this exhilarating and moving drama about the life of a young dancer in search of success and romance in New York
Collaborating with internationally renowned choreographer Jonah Bokaer, writer-director Brown has taken five gifted New York dancers, and fashioned a story about Chip (Ryan Steele in his first film role), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old who arrives from Kansas and joins a small downtown modern dance company. Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer's life, where discipline and endless hard work, camaraderie and competitiveness, the fear of not being good enough, and the joy of getting it just right, inform every minute of every day. Five Dances capture the exhilaration and emotional turmoil of a small dance company, and all of Chip's poignant firststhe forging of friendships, being chosen for the important solo, his first ever love affairwith intimacy and immediacy.
USA, 2013, 83 min., Color, Unrated | Director: Alan Brown