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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Max has inherited his father's talent but there are few opportunities to use it, so he has had to turn to crime. The big question: will he be able to go straight using his talent? The dancing is what makes this movie work, but Sammy Davis Jr. Gregory Hines does a capable job too.
Savion Glover is also quite good as Amy's son. Suzzanne Douglass is good as dance teacher Amy. At the time this movie was made, Gregory Hines must surely have been the best living tap dancer. If he wasn't, one of his co-stars probably was. In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, Max comments that the old men don't have the ability any more. They take this as a challenge and display incredible talent. Another great scene is the one where Max shows where he got his ideas for routines by dancing in the streets of New York while construction is going on.
And there is the scene where year-old Lewis is teaching Amy's dance class above Sonny's. There was plenty of good music here, but surprisingly, a lot of the dancing was done without music--though what I like most about tap is the music made by the dancers, much like the percussion style of Buddy Rich. I especially liked the arrangement of 'Cheek to Cheek' which started out as elevator music when Max and Amy were dancing ballroom style, but changed over to jazz when they switched to tap.
I wasn't crazy about attempts to make tap more hip by adding special equipment to shoes so the dancing could be heard with rock music, but it made the movie interesting. This was worth seeing. Details Edit. Release date February 10, United States. United States. Tap Dance. Beco Films TriStar Pictures. An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house Tap Stream and Watch Online.
TMDb Score. NR 1 hr 51 min Feb 12th, Music , Drama. Movie Reviews Cyrano. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. He was largely influential in bringing tap back to the forefront of entertainment in America throughout the 80s and 90s particularly, bringing then current music trends such as funk and rock to the form. Despite his formal training in dance, Hines spoke often of the masters who influenced him in tap, an art that is largely handed down rather than taught.
He was reverential to the masters who came before him, and used his platform to show their work to the world. His style undoubtedly borrowed from the masters above him, but revitalised the form. In that moment, he aligned tap with the latest free-form experiments in jazz and new music and postmodern dance. Skip to content.
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