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| Disco |
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Disco music |
Disco is a genre of dance music that that had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While disco was a form of black commercial...
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East Coast Lindy |
East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance that evolved from the Lindy Hop with the work of the Arthur Murray dance studios in the 1940s. East Coast Swing can be referred to by many different names in different regions of the United...
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The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in 3/4 (help·info) time, performed primarily in closed position.
There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S....
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| Saturday Night Fever |
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Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man, coming of age, whose weekend activities are visits to a local Brooklyn discothèque and Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual girlfriend. While in...
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| The Red Shoes |
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The Red Shoes (1948) is a British feature film about ballet, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers. Based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a pair of...
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| All That Jazz |
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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of the dancer, choreographer, and director's life and career. The film was...
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Robert Louis Fosse |
Robert louis “Bob” Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American musical theater choreographer and director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated...
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| Girls Just Want to Have Fun |
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"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper as a solo artist. It gained renown as a feminist anthem, an award-winning video and a worldwide smash hit.
With the inclusion of promotional releases, the...
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| West Coast Swing |
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West Coast Swing (WCS) is a partner dance derived from Lindy Hop. It is characterised by a distinctive elastic look that results from its basic extension-compression technique of partner connection, and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the...
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Flashdance is a musical/romance film released in April 1983. The film was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and its presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other 1980s...
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| Salsa |
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Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish-speaking people from the Caribbean. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Son, Guaguancó, Rumba, Boogaloo,...
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| Foxtrot |
The Foxtrot (also: "Fox trot", "foxtrot", "fox trot") is a ballroom dance.
It is often said that foxtrot took its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox; however the exact origins are unclear. The dance was premiered in 1914, quickly...
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Cabaret is a 1972 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing Nazi Party.
The film is...
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| The Tango Lesson |
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The Tango Lesson (Spanish: La lección de tango) (1997) is a drama film by British director Sally Potter. It is a semi-autobiographical film starring Potter and Pablo Verón, about Argentinian Tango.
The film, a co-production of Argentina, France,...
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| Billie Jean |
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"Billie Jean" is a dance-pop R&B; song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was written by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones for the singer's sixth solo album, Thriller (1982). Originally disliked by Jones, the track was almost...
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| Xanadu |
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Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It is an unofficial remake of the 1947 film Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth, as well as an unofficial sequel to the 1944 film Cover Girl in which Gene Kelly plays the same...
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Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when...
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The term Latin dance has two meanings, depending on whether the context is social or Ballroom dance.
Latin dance includes a wide range of dances originating in Latin America and Cuba. Examples include the cha cha cha, rumba, samba, salsa, mambo,...
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| Beat Street |
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Beat Street is a 1984 mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; break dancing, DJing, and graffiti.
Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of...
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| Honey |
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Honey is a 2003 motion picture released by Universal Pictures. Featuring music produced by Rodney Jerkins, the film stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo, Joy Bryant, Missy Elliott and David Moscow. A number of popular hip hop and R&B;...
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| The Pajama Game |
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The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are...
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| Strictly Ballroom |
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Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Baz Luhrmann and produced by M&A; Productions. The film has been shown in at least 86 countries and furthermore has been placed as the film option on the British, South-African...
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| You Got Served |
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You Got Served is a 2004 drama film written and directed by Chris Stokes, manager of its stars, recording artist Marques Houston and the members of boy band B2K. The plot concerns a group of dancers, who take part in a street dancing competition. It...
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Fame is a 1980 American musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva, directed by Alan Parker, and written by Christopher Gore. The film follows a group of students through their studies at the New York High School of Performing Arts (which...
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| The Company |
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The Company is a film about the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. It was released on December 26, 2003 in the United States and around the world in the first half of 2004. The movie was directed by Robert Altman and stars Neve Campbell, who also co-wrote...
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| Dirty Dancing |
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Dirty Dancing is a 1987 romantic film made in the United States. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jerry Orbach. The story is a coming of age drama that...
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| Bring It On |
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Bring It On is a 2000 film about two competing high school cheerleading squads, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union. It was directed by Peyton Reed and written by Jessica Bendinger.
The film was followed by four...
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| Wild Style |
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Wild Style was the first hip hop motion picture. Released independently in 1982 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video by Rhino Home Video, the movie featured actors like Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quinones, the Rock Steady Crew, The...
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| Guy Davis |
Guy Davis (1966- ) is an American comic book artist primarily known for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre and various Hellboy-related comics. He has also done work for various White Wolf, Inc. books as well has his own series, The Nevermen and The...
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| Footloose |
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Footloose is a 1984 American film that tells the story of Ren McCormack, played by Kevin Bacon, a teenager who was raised in Chicago. McCormack moves to a small town where the local government has banned dancing and rock music. Ren and his...
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| Beat It |
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"Beat It" is a song written and performed by American recording artist Michael Jackson and co-produced by Quincy Jones for the singer's sixth solo album, Thriller (1982). Eddie Van Halen was drafted to add the song's distinctive overdriven guitar...
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| Shall We Dance? |
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Shall We Dance? is an American motion picture released in 2004. It is a remake of the award-winning Masayuki Suo 1996 Japanese film, Shall We Dansu?. The film made its US premier at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
Taglines:
Step out of the...
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| Smooth Criminal |
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"Smooth Criminal" is the seventh single from Michael Jackson's Bad album (1987). The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been attacked in her apartment by a smooth assailant. It was...
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| Susan Stroman |
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Susan Stroman (born 17 October 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director, and performer.
Stroman was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Frances and Charles Stroman. She was exposed to show tunes by her piano-playing salesman...
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| Shall We Dance |
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Shall We Dance? is a 1996 award - winning Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is Shall We Dansu? (Shall We ダンス? ) which refers to the earlier 1934 movie "Shall We Dance" starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. It may also refer to the song, ...
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| Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights |
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is a 2004 United States musical/romance film directed by Guy Ferland. This film is a prequel to the 1987 blockbuster Dirty Dancing, reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the...
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| Center Stage |
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Center Stage, directed by Nicholas Hytner in 2000, is a drama film about a group of young dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York City. The film explores the issues and difficulties in the world of...
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| Swing Kids |
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Swing Kids is a film produced in 1993 and directed by Thomas Carter. The runtime is approximately 112 minutes. The film is considered as being part of the Lindy Hop revival of the 1980s and 1990s, and responsible for bringing more people to this...
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| Rae Dawn Chong |
Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress.
Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director. Chong's father is of Chinese and Scotch-Irish ancestry...
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| Save the Last Dance |
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Save the Last Dance is a 2001 romantic drama film produced by MTV Films, directed by Thomas Carter and released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2001. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago...
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stayin' alive |
Staying Alive is the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as the main character, Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn...
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| Mambo |
Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuban origin that corresponds to mambo music. Mambo music was invented in 1930s Havana by Cachao and his contemporaries and made popular around the world by Perez Prado and Beny Moré. Mambo music developed from Danzon and...
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| Rhythm Nation |
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"Rhythm Nation" is the second single from American R&B-pop; singer Janet Jackson's fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989).
The song became the second of the historic seven top five singles released off the Janet Jackson's...
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| Scream/Childhood |
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"Scream"/"Childhood" is the lead single from Michael Jackson's HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I album—where "Scream" is track one and "Childhood" is track ten. "Scream" is the A-side release and "Childhood" is the corresponding B-side. The...
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Mary Alice Smith |
Mary Alice (born December 3, 1941) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actress.
Alice was born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of Ozelar (née Jurnakin) and Sam Smith. In 1987 she received a Tony for Best Featured...
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| Bad |
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"Bad" was a 1987 hit recording by American singer Michael Jackson. The song was the second of five Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit singles from the album Bad, (the first a time a recording artist achieved this feat) and was his seventh number-one...
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| White Nights |
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White Nights is a 1985 film starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It also contains early-career performances from Marc Sinden and French girlfriend Maryam d'Abo. Directed by Taylor...
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| Singin' in the Rain |
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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its...
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| Dancing with the Stars |
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Dancing with the Stars (US) |
Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on American Broadcasting Company in the United States. The show is based on the United Kingdom BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of BBC Worldwide's international Dancing with the...
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| Fame |
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Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name and was hugely popular during its first few seasons. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the...
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| Girls Just Want to Have Fun |
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985) is a dance movie in the style of Footloose and Flashdance. For many years, Comedy Central, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network and ABC Family have aired the film. As of 2007 ABC Family's sister network, Disney Channel...
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| Breakin' |
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Breakdance: The Movie |
Breakin' is a 1984 movie directed by Joel Silberg. It was also released under the title Breakdance: The Movie in some international locations.
The film setting was inspired by a German documentary entitled Breakin' and Enterin set in the Los Angeles...
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| The Turning Point |
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The Turning Point (1977) was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James...
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| Like a Virgin |
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"Like a Virgin" is the first single by American singer Madonna from the album of the same name and was released on November 6, 1984 by Sire Records. It also appears in a truncated and slightly remixed form on the 1990 greatest hits compilation The...
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| Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo |
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Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo |
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is the sequel to the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin'. It was released the same year as its predecessor by Cannon Films. In some international locations, the movie was released under the title Breakdance 2: Electric...
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| Black or White |
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"Black or White" is a 1991 hit single taken from Michael Jackson's Dangerous album, released in October 1991. The single is considered the biggest selling rock song of the 1990s. "Black or White" is a mix of rock, R&B;, and dance-pop.
Written,...
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| Thank God It's Friday |
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Thank God It's Friday is a 1978 film directed by Robert Klane and produced by Motown Productions and Casablanca Filmworks for Columbia Pictures (whose "Torch Lady", in a specially-produced logo, dances to disco music before the opening credits)....
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| The Way You Make Me Feel |
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"The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song written by American recording artist Michael Jackson and recorded for his seventh album Bad (1987). Produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones, it was released as the album's third single in 1987 and became another...
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| Innocent Steps |
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Innocent Steps (댄서의 순정, Daenseo-ui sunjeong; literally "Dancer's Innocent Love") is a 2005 South Korean film written and directed by Park Young-hoon. Theme of this beautiful movie is "Success can not bring you happiness if the one you love is far...
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| Roll Bounce |
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Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The film also stars Meagan Good, Brandon T....
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