DANC 1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Streetdance 3D, Street Dance, Food Fight
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Sets up the role of class and class difference in the film. Ballet dancers are better than everyone / street dancers have no respect/class. Respect towards commitment carly starts to respect ballet boy more when she sees him working hard and practicing after hours. They all respected each other"s unique skills. Dissolved food fight, having fun together. Street dance can be done anywhere, whereas ballet is typically done in special places (like a ballet studio), so when the street dancers invade their space too, the ballet dancers feel threatened. Difference of gender opposite of save the last dance (hip hop girl and ballet boy) Commitment (both to dance, each other, and romantically) The street dancers transgressed their differences because they included the ballet form in their routine at the end, instead of simply looking past the fact that they are different and ignoring ballet.
