Staff List: Top Dance Movies

What’s your all-time favourite dance movie?

West Side Story

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain

What’s the best movie dance routine?

Shake a Tail Feather – The Blues Brothers. Watch it. It cannot fail to make you smile.

Who would be your ideal dance partner?

Dick Van Dyke – a la Mary Poppins, I would like to learn to do the rooftop ‘Step in Time’ dance routine OR Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!

What’s your favourite dance movie soundtrack?

BUGSY MALONE!

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

Mad Hot Ballroom

Who do you think is the best dancing couple?

WALL-E and Eve in space outside the Axiom (he’s got a fire extinguisher for propulsion)

Who’s got the worst onscreen dance moves?

Chris Penn (until Kevin Bacon schools him) in Footloose

What’s the best movie dance routine?

Ferris Bueller sings Twist & Shout on a float in the Chicago Parade, and the entire city joins in

What’s your favourite dance movie soundtrack?

Grease – it is, and always shall be, the word

Which film gets you in the mood for dancing?

Saturday Night Fever

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)

Who’s got the worst onscreen dance moves?

Tom Cruise every time he tries

What’s the best movie dance routine?

Without question it’s Ted Striker and Elaine Dickinson in Airplane when they meet in the bar and dance to Stayin’ Alive

How would be your ideal dance partner?

Anyone with their own pair of steel toecapped shoes, but if I had the choice, Heather Graham as Felicity Shagwell in The Spy Who Shagged Me. Oh behave!

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

Has to be Strictly Ballroom. An absolute classic, and without the clichés you get in a lot of dance movies.

Which film gets you in the mood for dancing?

I’ll admit it – Step Up 1 and 2. That routine when they’re dancing outside in the rain in the second film, WOW!

Which dance movie do you know you shouldn’t like,
but you can’t help but love it?

Dirty Dancing 2 is a bit of a guilty pleasure, mainly because of Diego Luna.

Who do you think is the best dancing couple?

Cameron Diaz and Jim Carrey have some impressive moves in The Mask. Smokin’!

What’s the best movie dance routine?

The last scene in Black Swan is just amazing.

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

Dirty Dancing

Who do you think is the best dancing couple?

Patrick Swayze & Jennifer Grey

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) in Flashdance

How would be your ideal dance partner?

John Travolta

What’s your favourite dance movie soundtrack?

Saturday Night Fever or Carlito’s Way

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

Singin' in the Rain

Which dance movie do you know you shouldn’t like,
but you can’t help but love it?

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Who do you think is the best dancing couple?

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers or John Travolta & Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Harry Shum Jr. from Glee

What’s the best movie dance routine?

John Travola in “You should be dancing” from Saturday Night Fever or Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor in “Make ‘Em Laugh” from Singin’ in the Rain.

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

Fame!

Which dance movie do you know you shouldn’t like,
but you can’t help but love it?

Glee (I don’t love it though, that’s the only one I could think of!)

What’s the best movie dance routine?

Jessica Alba in Honey

How would be your ideal dance partner?

Ne-Yo or Justin Timberlake

What’s your favourite dance movie soundtrack?

Dirty Dancing ‘I’ve had the time of my life’

Which dance movie do you know you shouldn’t like,
but you can’t help but love it?

Save the Last Dance

Who do you think is the best dancing couple?

Just because it’s a classic and can’t go without mention – Jennifer Grey & Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing)

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Lauryn from Make It Happen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)

Who’s got the worst onscreen dance moves?

Not too keen on some of the moves Paul Mercurio does in Strictly Ballroom or Antonio Banderas in Take The Lead.

What’s the best movie dance routine?

Shall We Dance – Tango between John (Richard Gere) and Paulina (Jennifer Lopez)

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

The Full Monty

Which dance movie do you know you shouldn’t like,
but you can’t help but love it?

Step Up (lived with cheerleaders, couldn’t be avoided).

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Napoleon Dynamite

What’s the best movie dance routine?

Stifler/Bear dance off, American Pie 3

How would be your ideal dance partner?

Mila Kunis

What is your all-time favourite dance movie?

I think it has to be Singin’ in the Rain. I first saw it only a few years ago, but it made me want tap dance all day for the following few weeks.

Which dance movie do you know you shouldn’t like,
but you can’t help but love it?

I have to admit I was quite a big fan of Save The Last Dance when it came out. I remember my 14 year-old self loved the soundtrack enough to buy it.

Who do you wish you could dance like?

Maybe a combination of Vera Ellen and err... Beyoncé?

Who would be your ideal dance partner?

Christopher Walken, without a doubt.

What’s your favourite dance movie soundtrack?

Grease is always a high-scorer and I also love the Chicago soundtrack, sadly I’m not so attached to my Save the Last Dance CD anymore.