Were You…Born to Dance, Like This Multimillion-Dollar Dance Movie?
Entertainment
There is a formula to every contemporary dance movie, cribbed from Romeo and Juliet, jacked from West Side Story, and interpreted in various mix-n-match forms from Dirty Dancing to Step Up (all versions) to Save the Last Dance to Stomp the Yard to Lambada: the Forbidden Dance to Honey to Footloose (both versions), ad infinitum. The formula is thus: one lead (usually the man), is an outsider for reasons of class, race, dance style, or a combination of the three; the other lead (usually the woman) is the insider, and when she also is a dancer, it’s usually something like ballet to connote her proper nature.