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The best of the ballroom dance films
As a heavy-duty ballroom dance fan, I found this the best of all the ballroom dance films - for sheer talent. I had no idea Vanessa Williams was that good a ballroom dancer, let alone such a fine actress and a stunning woman. Chayenne, not the best actor around, is nevertheless somewhat sweet and charming but he cannot hold a candle to the firepower of the professional ballroom dancers. The scenes where the competitions take place are fabulous, using real ballroom dance champions, doing real, not bastardized, ballroom dancing.

The story-line behind the dancing (and it *is* behind the dancing) is a nice one but predictable. Chayenne is a Cuban immigrant on a trip to meet his American father (Chris Christofferson), who doesn’t know Chayenne is his son, fathered by him in an old love affair aboard a cruise ship. Chayenne arrives to do handyman work at Christofferson’s dance studio and the latter soon realizes Chayenne is his son, which creates tension between them. To me, that aspect of the film was padding and could easily have been omitted in favor of more dancing.

The better parts have to do with a clash in dance style between Vanessa Williams’ character and Chayenne’s but they work it out and it becomes great fun to watch the two free-form dancing together, and dancing with others at small night clubs.

Truth to tell, I wish there were far more ballroom dance movies of high quality like this one. The other ballroom dance movies are built more around love stories, such as “Strictly Ballroom”. “Shall We Dance”, with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez is also good but doesn’t have the professional spark that “Dance With Me” reveals.

(Not that this has much to do with ballroom dance, but I am still waiting for some hugely talented person to release a high-quality DVD of just Fred Astaire’s dances. JUST the dances with dates, partners, name of film; no interviews, no talking, just his dances, with and without partners. If anyone knows of such a DVD, I’d sacrifice my firstborn for it!)

Dance With Me
Chayanne & Vanessa Williams did a great job. I never knew that Vanessa Williams could do salsa until I watched this movie. Great movie!

FABULOUS!
Fantastic dance movie. Plot is not bad. But it’s all about the dancing. Woah, hot love scene bet. Vanessa and Chayanne, no nudity, but WOW! Lucky Vanessa. Check it out ladies, too hot. This is a good movie for all you latin dance lovers. Enjoy.

SO MUCH FUN
Yes, the plot is predictable but the key to enjoying this movie is not to over-analyze it. What is it’s objective? To be fun and it does that superbly. Both Vanessa and Chayanne look beautiful, have tremendous chemistry and move well together. Great music too! Like others who’ve reviewed this movie I can’t figure out how Kris Kristofersson was cast for this movie. That’s all wrong. But if you want a down in the dumps, rainy day picker-upper this is a sure thing.

Watch it for the dancing
Latin heartthrob Chayanne can sing. Chayanne can dance. Chayanne can teach Ricky Martin a thing or two about moving the hips. But, Chayanne cannot act very well. Vanessa Williams basically has to carry the movie because Chayanne, when he is not dancing…does very little for the film. But, when Chayanne is dancing all the bets are off. The passion in the dance sequences is palpable, the dancing is amazing and darn…it looks like fun!

The film’s plot has been done in many many other films. So, it is not only predictable, it is downright scene by scene a what every dance movie til then and since then has done. But, don’t watch it for the predictable plot. The strengths of this movie lies in the dancing…because it is Latin hot! Trust me, I am Latin

		List Price: $24.99		Publisher: Arthaus Musik Salesrank: 67242 Released: 2005-08-16 Theatrical-Release: 2005
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More exciting than the first volume, but still only 50 minutes of video
RHYTHM is the second episode of Sir Simon Rattle’s “Leaving Home”, a television programme introducing 20th century orchestral music. We go between the brief lectures of Rattle, seated at a piano, and excepts from various pieces in performance by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rattle. While the first episode introduced the expansion of tonality in early 20th century Vienna, here Rattle celebrates the exploration of musical pulse.

Rattle begins with a sensible starting point, Stravinsky’s wild “Le Sacre du Printemps”. Edgar Varese’s “Ionisaton” is given as an example of how the changing landscape of the modern world, with its automobiles and skyscrapers, inspired new forms of composition. One of Conlon Nancarrow’s pieces for player piano shows how technology can aid the composer towards new rhythmic possibilities when merely human performers would immediately tire out. Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood” shows African inspiration, while Pierre Boulez’s “Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna” updates the funeral dirge to serialist complexity. The treatment of two pieces, however, stands out. Rattle asserts that Ligeti’s “Atmospheres”, far from being a formless mass as is often perceived, is really an ingenious collection of many varied rhythmic experiments. This greatly expanded my appreciation of Ligeti’s earliest micropolyphonic work. The last work discussed on the album is Olivier Messiaen’s “Turangalila-Symphony”, where the composer took everything he ever learned about Indian rhythms and applied it in the most exhuberant fashion. The shots of CBSO performing this, with Jeanne Loriod on ondes martenot and Peter Donohoe on piano, are quite exciting.

This is less well-known material than on the first volume, so even one who’s listened to this sort of music for a little while already may learn new things here. For total neophytes, this would be all very enlightening and Rattle continues to use relatively innocuous music that wouldn’t scare the viewer away. Nonetheless, RHYTHMX contains further downsides common to all DVDs in the series. While music is being played, the scene goes between instrumentalists performing and stock footage of whatever the producers thought would be good; for example, while a portion of Messiaen goes on, we get interspliced footage of fireworks. Besides looking somewhat goofy, I feel that this forces a single interpretation on the listener, when in reality instrumental music can mean anything one likes. And the decision to put only a single episode on each DVD, charging the usual ArtHaus rate for just fifty minutes of video, is outrageous. Even getting the seven volumes together in the boxset doesn’t save one much, and I think that this is a sensible purchase more for libraries than individuals. The only bonus material consists of biographies of the composers (little more than what one would find in a common encyclopedia) and a music track with Messiaen’s “Turangalila”. One should think carefully before acquiring the DVD.

Still, I suppose that RHYTHM and other entries in the “Leaving Home” series could be a good buy for fans of contemporary music who want loved ones to find the same pleasure in new music that they do. And fans of Ligeti may appreciate the new perspective on “Atmospheres”.

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