Five Dances

Name: Five Dances
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Released: October 4, 2013
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 51

2013

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TLA Releasing | Release Date: October 4, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Chip (Ryan Steel), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old dancer from Kansas joins a small downtown modern dance company. In his first weeks of rehearsal, 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, andChip (Ryan Steel), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old dancer from Kansas joins a small downtown modern dance company. In his first weeks of rehearsal, 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.… Expand

Director: Alan Brown

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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Ronnie Scheib

Nov 14, 2013

The sensual movement of bodies through space creates a visual language whose infinite variations seduce and fascinate over the course of the film’s numerous rehearsals. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Oct 4, 2013

It's the moments when director Alan Brown stops worrying about clarifying plot and character motivation and lets the performances bring those into being that makes this an authentic project. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Hank Sartin

Oct 11, 2013

It's a lovely way to open a film that is at its best when it is displaying dancers in motion and exploring the complex dynamics of a rehearsal space. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Oct 8, 2013

The gorgeous physicality is more impressive than the sketchy storyline of this dance-centric drama. Read full review

Violet Lucca

Oct 1, 2013

If only verisimilitude equaled quality. But unfortunately, schmaltzy music and drab melodrama drag down the otherwise graceful moves of Five Dances. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Oct 3, 2013

Though the film’s untested cast struggles with the drama, and the sketched-out story is often banal (there are several amateurish calls-to-mom scenes), the presentation of a specific city subculture is etched from the heart. Read full review

David DeWitt

Oct 3, 2013

A promising, though static, new film that never leaves its taciturn shadows for a single emotionally gripping moment. Read full review

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