Best Dance Movies Ever Made | Top 10
For all the dance enthusiast out there this is the perfect getaway in the movie world because in the following you are going to see some of the best dance movies ever made.
This is one amazing list that contains unique motion pictures where the entire action is based on a dance theme.
So now you are entering the world of professional dancers and trained actors who will take you on a tour of dance moves combined with powerful stories and unique characters.
They embark on a journey full of dance moves, challenges and powerful and motivational stories.
They help you understand the meaning of the dance and explain to you with the dance moves their life experience.
Stay tuned for some amazing moves and talented dancers who try to show you through their moves, a passionable story and a wonderful choreographic act.
Now we see the first movie from the list of the best dance movies ever made->
10. Stomp the Yard
The first movie is about a street dancer who has to surpass the death of his younger brother, played by the famous singer Chris Brown, and join a university where he was problems.
The film centers, after the death of young Chris, on the life of his bigger brother who has a hard time competing with a local fraternity.
With a unique story who from the beginning offers you a melodramatic twist and throws you in a world where competition and rivalry are on the menu of the day.
With fierce street-style dance moves, talented dancers and a unique story the movie shows us the stomping style dance which defines the entire movie.
With a huge success the opening night and opening weekend, Stomp the Yard opens the list of the best dance movies ever made, with a strong story and a dance style that supports even a love story
So for those who saw it, let’s remember it again and try to fit the shoes of Dj Williams and his struggle to make everything work at school, with the other fraternity and last with April’s family, all of these in dance moves.
Next a love story between a interracial couple->
9.
Save the last dance
Save the last dance offers the public a love story like no other.
In a world where dancing means everything to her, Sara has to deal with her mother’s death and her moving to a new school to stay with her father.
After failing her first admission to dance school and the fact that her mother died arriving there, she felt so guilty that all the dancing ambitions were lost.
The film starts with a very sad story of a girl with great ambitions but whose faith made her go on a different path.
Starting with classical dance moves like ballet, the movie strikes you back as the second character enters the plot, Derek, who is set to help Sara pursue her dreams.
If at first he is helping her with some moves, they fall in love and the next step is to make her understand that hip hop can change her ballet moves and make her win a scholarship at Juilliard.
Mixing ballet with hip-hop moves, street style dancing with choreography moves the scenery changes often from the clubs and the street, to private ballet rooms and stages for the big audience.
Next movie made the big screen 37 years ago.->
8.
Saturday Night Fever
This particular movie show us that dancing makes you happy, makes you forget about about everything and that music is like medicine for the soul.
Starting in the main role, John Travolta gives a special twist to his character and makes Tony a young man who lives for dancing.
Even though he has a job that he hates, parents who don’t support him, Tony manages to forget about all these things and ends up dancing in the disco clubs of Brooklyn.
The thing that manages to impress everyone is that the dancing culture and music culture of the late 70’s and early 80’s is well presented here so that now when we look back we can see all the changes made.
The perfect image of the disco era mixed with haute couture styles of clothing and symphony orchestrated melodie also bled with the graceful choreography that was made in the movie.
The moves, the attitude and dress style make the moves go smoot along the music line, while John Travolta show how confident and loose he is during his performance.
In the next movie the story is played in a dance studio->
7.
Dance with me
Centered around a love story and around the blooming career of a dance instructor, the movie tells the story of a young man who comes to work in the States and finds himself in a dance studio falling in love.
We see again a painful death and a person who seeks another way to change the scenery.
For those who saw the movie we will like to remember the main character Rafael and his new discovered love Ruby when they perform with other dancers a Latin Salsa song by Albita Rodriguez where the couple discovers that they are meant for each other.
The movie brings out the dancing competitions, the heat and the beat of salsa based music and all the gracefulness behind a strict and vibrant choreography.
On the the list of the best dance movies ever made Dance with me could be the movie who mixed salsa with comedy and drama to build in our imagination a world where dance could change you and make you happy again.
Next we have the movie where dancing is forbidden->
6.
Footloose
The unique story behind Footloose could inspire a lot of people to adopt the way of dancing because our nature of being couldn’t exist without it.
With a remake after several years the movie has brought to the surface the fact that religion could coexist with music of every type and dancing is a way of exercise, celebration and joy.
The movie centers a little town where music, dancing and rock and roll are forbidden by the town council because an accident occurred several years before, during similar experiences.
So now dancing and music became forms of manifestation and drew attention so that the people understand that teenagers have the need to dance and party, this being mother nature’s course.
Even though they are several synchronized dances, solos and lots of things that bring the movie in the area of musicals, we can say that Footloose is definitely a movie to see and the most amazing thing is that music and dancing mix together perfectly to create a teenager environment whit lots of fun and joy.
Next is a movie where the main characters are the famous B2K->
5.
You Got Served
First of its kind, You Got Served, is the movie where the boys have to battle and compete to win respect, money and fame.
Featuring a well known boy band, B2K, the movie is a classic outtake of the struggle for money and respect when it comes to dancing, some of the best teams doing everything on the streets to earn one of the two.
With free style moves, both solo and team acts, this is the first movie who creates the perfect image of the street dancing teams, their struggle and the fact that some actually can make a living out of battles and competitions.
The performance of the famous r&b boy band was rated as good, and the main characters did an amazing job to recreate the problems and the continuous fight for keeping a team close and managing to win some titles.
With a final performance where you find two teams that excel at what they do, the winners are making an outstanding performance in the loving memory of their lost friend, to emphasize that drama will always follow the dancing scene.
Bringing something new to the table is the professional uptake of the dancing scenes most of the cast being composed from professional street dancers.
Next we go into the ballet world->
4.
Center Stage
Center Stage allows the viewer to take a glimpse in the life of professional dancers, the life which they all love but have a hard time to keep up.
Some of the reviews of the movie were negative but, for all you dance enthusiast out there this is the perfect image of the dancer’s life and all the fights you have to overcome with injuries, contests, not enough rehearsal hours and all you need to see, that happens in a professional dancer’s life.
From the start the movie creates the impression of graceful description of the hard times a dancer has before being famous or before an important show.
If the storyline was criticized in a poor manner, the choreography saved the movie, being a showcase of talents, beautiful dancing and exquisite moves.
The movie makes it to our best dance movies ever made due to its dedications to the dancing life and it spotted the number 4 here, because we considered that this is an exceptional walk-through through the professional dancing individual.
So if you didn’t watch it make sure you closely take a peek into the lives of Amanda Schull as Jodi Sawyer, Zoë Saldana as Eva Rodríguez, Susan May Pratt as Maureen Cummings and Peter Gallagher as Jonathan Reeves.
Next we review a best actress award for a dancing role->
3.
Black Swan
Natalie Portman rocked this movie and won the Best Actress award for the film and also several other nominations from where we would like to mention best picture and best director.
We are talking about Black Swan, of course, a movie quite unique and breathtaking at the same time.
From the start the description, a psychological thriller/horror film, makes us a little bit enthusiastic and we wait to see how the dancing and the moves mold in this kind of motion picture.
That’s why the picture was nominated for best director because the movie who revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet mixes both the ballet life and the struggle with reality.
With terrifying scenes, training scenes, magistral performances and unique characters, the movie made a gross of almost 370 million dollars and is one of the best outtakes on the high dancing scene of New York ballerinas.
Both Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman took ballet lessons before the movie and we can also see a large number of ballet stars who give the movie the authenticity it needed.
So on number 3 we see probably one of the best dance movies ever made who revolves around a main dancer and a famous show.
Number 2 made many sequels->
2.
Step Up
Step Up is the classic case of falling in love on the dance floor. This is why it will always make it to the top of the best dance movies ever made.
Starring Channing Tatum the disadvantaged poor guy who starts at a dancing school as a janitor, and Jenna Dewan who has to do everything because her next major performance will decide her future.
The modern dancing outtake on Lady and the Stray, this movie made a big fan base and the 4 after movies have a great success with the dance community.
The two main characters have to deal with their future in this first movie because they have to make the right decisions and to train as hard as they can and improve their dancing because the biggest step for them is to come.
Step up show how love blends with music and dancing, who the two can create an environment perfect for evolving as a character and as a dancer.
The handsome stray street dancer makes a perfect match with the beautiful and graceful ballet dancer, both of them are showing the world that dancing means everything.
From the point of view of professionalism and artistic outtake we see a movie which presents both the street dancing scene and the classical scene.
Number 1 dancing movie->
1.
Dirty Dancing
This is it, the most popular, most selling movie on home video and movie with the most awards for soundtrack and singles.
Dirty Dancing is our number one for multiple reasons, one of them is the classic take on teenage love and dancing from the 1960’s.
With an original storyline the movie is the worlds famous dance movie where the main characters discover each other and the love they have while training for a show.
The love between a music instructor and a young beautiful girl, takes place while they practice for a dance where the main female dancer had to quit.
Even though the couple has some difficulties and their relation isn’t approved after the final dance they impress everybody so hard and all the audience starts to dance.
The final dance from Dirty Dancing brings out some graceful and technique moves, performed with lots of professionalism and dedication from both Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
All the problems and difficulties that the leading female character has, toughen up her dance style and creates a perfect opportunity to express some hidden feelings.
It was the best dance movie ever created even though it had harsh critics at that time, but as we see it now, it is an amazing dance movie for that period and a great dancing show which was proposed even for Broadway spectacles.
What do you think about the best dance movies ever made? Have you seen them all?
Which one is your favorite and why? Can you add something new to the list?
