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Mad Hot Ballroom
2005 Documentary
Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Writer: Amy Sewell
Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to “ladies and gentlemen,” on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition.
Providing unique insight into the incredible cultural diversity that is New York City, this film profiles several kids from three schools (out of 60) at this dynamic age, when becoming that “cool” teenager vies for position with familiar innocence, while they learn the merengue, rumba, tango, the foxtrot and swing.
American Ballroom Theater's (ABrT) Dancing Classrooms is the nonprofit organization that currently provides instruction in ballroom dance at over sixty public schools in New York City. The program was introduced in two schools ten years ago. In ten weeks of intense, required clases, the program's skilled and passionately inventive teachers take their students through a dance repertory; merengue, rumba, tango, foxtrot and swing dancing. In the process, we see boys and girls learn a whole lot more than just how to make the right steps.
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