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Mad Hot Ballroom is a 2005 American documentary film directed and co-produced by Marilyn Agrelo and written and co-produced by Amy Sewell, about a ballroom dance program in the New York City Department of Education, the New York City public school system for fifth graders.
Sep 1, 2008 · Beautifully directed and shot, energetically edited, and with a fantastic score, Mad Hot Ballroom tells the story in a way that is always compelling and dramatic. But there is something more ineffable: the magic that comes when all of these elements are masterfully woven together.
In Mad Hot Ballroom, producers Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell followed students at three schools from the beginning of the ten-week course through the final, citywide competition. The documentary is charming, exciting, often hilarious, and, in the end, deeply inspiring.
Nov 15, 2005 · Forget Strictly Come Dancing, the real dancefloor action takes place in Marilyn Agrelo's Mad Hot Ballroom. This acclaimed documentary is about three groups of diverse 11-year-old kids...
Nov 10, 2005 · Contains no sex, violence or bad language. Spellbound meets Shall We Dance? in Mad Hot Ballroom, a feelgood documentary about a hoofing contest for New York schoolchildren. Instead of...
May 11, 2005 · Film. Review: Mad Hot Ballroom. The film feels as if it were intended by director Marilyn Agrelo as a point-by-point rebuttal of Jeff Blitz’s Spellbound. by Ed Gonzalez. May 11, 2005. Something Jeff Blitz seemed unwilling to seriously assess throughout Spellbound is how brainpower facilitates an unhealthy form of social and personal cocooning.
Feb 23, 2005 · Alternating dance classes, interviews with teachers andpupils, and eavesdropping on peer-to-peer conversations and gossip, Mad HotBallroom builds to something more than an inspirational tale...
