In American movies, there has always been a tension, sometimes a thrilling and explosive one, between the sexual freedom of dance and the finely honed straight edge of ”masculine” control. Gene Kelly, ...
It's been 25 years since Billy Elliot first danced its way into films fans' hearts, going on to be a hit musical ...
As film-to-stage adaptations go, Stephen Daldry's "Billy Elliot" could hardly have been a better candidate. The movie, released in 2000 to torrents of critical and popular applause, is a perfectly ...
Paramount Theatre’s production of “Billy Elliot The Musical” is a spectacle in every sense of the word: From set designer Michelle Lilly’s magnificently forbidding mine shaft, whose murky interior ...
As Billy Elliot turns 25, we revisit an interview with its director Stephen Daldry on the film’s political context, emotional rhythms and expressive physicality. From our October 2000 issue.
To really bring it, to release his core emotions and ideas, Billy Elliot must dance. But to dance, the 11-year-old son of a coal miner must overcome entrenched opposition to boys in ballet shoes. The ...
As film-to-stage adaptations go, Stephen Daldry's "Billy Elliot" could hardly have been a better candidate. The movie, released in 2000 to torrents of critical and popular applause, is a perfectly ...
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