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  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Chip (Ryan Steel), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old dancer from Kansas joins a small downtown modern dance company. In his first weeks of rehearsal, Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer's life, where discipline and endless hard work, camaraderie and competitiveness, the fear of not being good enough, an...

Directed By: Alan Brown

Written By: Alan Brown

  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 23 m

Five Dances

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Chip (Ryan Steel), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old dancer from Kansas joins a small downtown modern dance company. In his first weeks of rehearsal, Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer's life, where discipline and endless hard work, camaraderie and competitiveness, the fear of not being good enough, an...

Directed By: Alan Brown

Written By: Alan Brown

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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63% Mixed
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80
Nov 14, 2013
The sensual movement of bodies through space creates a visual language whose infinite variations seduce and fascinate over the course of the film’s numerous rehearsals.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 11, 2013
It's a lovely way to open a film that is at its best when it is displaying dancers in motion and exploring the complex dynamics of a rehearsal space.
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63
Oct 4, 2013
It's the moments when director Alan Brown stops worrying about clarifying plot and character motivation and lets the performances bring those into being that makes this an authentic project.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 8, 2013
The gorgeous physicality is more impressive than the sketchy storyline of this dance-centric drama.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 3, 2013
A promising, though static, new film that never leaves its taciturn shadows for a single emotionally gripping moment.
By David DeWitt FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 3, 2013
Though the film’s untested cast struggles with the drama, and the sketched-out story is often banal (there are several amateurish calls-to-mom scenes), the presentation of a specific city subculture is etched from the heart.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 1, 2013
If only verisimilitude equaled quality. But unfortunately, schmaltzy music and drab melodrama drag down the otherwise graceful moves of Five Dances.
By Violet Lucca FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Perry Street Pictures
Release Date Oct 4, 2013
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating TV-14
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Website https://www.facebook.com/fivedances
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Awards

Iris Prize Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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