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Antonio Banderas stars as a professional dancer who volunteers to teach dance at a New York City public school. His students, who prefer hip-hop to ballroom dancing, resist his methods at first; but eventually, teacher and students team up to create a new form of dance that melds the old and the new. Based on the life of Pierre Dulaine, acclaimed ballroom dancer and director of the American Ballroom Theater's dance program, which was featured in the documentary 'Mad Hot Ballroom.' -

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A teacher and his students open up new worlds for one another in this urban drama inspired by a true story. Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) is a prize-winning ballroom dancer and instructor from Manhattan who volunteers his services to a high school in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the Bronx. Principal Augustine James (Alfre Woodard) in turn gives Dulaine a tough assignment -- a detention class with some of the biggest troublemakers on campus. When the kids learn that Dulaine intends to teach them how to dance in the classic style, they're incredulous at best and dismissive at worst -- until Dulaine demonstrates his moves for the class. While Dulaine's charges -- including Rock (Rob Brown), LaRhette (Yaya DaCosta), Ramos (Dante Basco), Eddie (Marcus T. Paulk), and Sasha (Jenna Dewan) -- respect his talent, they have their own way of dancing, and as they mix hip-hop moves with ballroom discipline, they create an exciting new style. Dulaine also strives to instill self-confidence and a work ethic in hi

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