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Five Dances

Ryan Steele (Actor), Reed Luplau (Actor), Alan Brown (Director) Rated:
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3.4 out of 5 stars 318 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Actors: Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau, Luke Murphy, Catherine Miller, Kimiye Corwin
  • Directors: Alan Brown
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
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  • Studio: Wolfe Video
  • DVD Release Date: July 29, 2014
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (318 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00JV0543I
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,542 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsThis film is a keeper.
By George F. Taylor on March 3, 2015
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
This is Alan Brown's fourth independently produced full length movie and without doubt his best. I always rate indie movies differently from major studio films because of the many difficulties in making an indie film. Five Dances was made mostly out of good intentions, hope, and air. The result is a lot better than just good.

The movie began as just a concept of making a movie using dance as the major means of expression. Originally it was to be Seven Dancers, but Brown was only able to find five dancers that could both handle the choreography and also give a creditable job of acting. All the professional reviewers I have seen fault the acting ability of the characters. Considering that none of these people had ever been in front of a film camera before, they do a great job. And it had to be done in one shot because there was no money for the multiple retakes of scenes done in major studio movies.

The plot developed as making the movie progressed. There never was a real script. The choreographer Jonah Bokar was something of a prodigy. The five short dances he made show Merce Cunningham's influence as well as aspects of Paul Taylor and Pilobolus with much traditional ballet, and they are very, very difficult. The dancers learned the choreography in two twelve-hour days with no music or counts to help them keep in sync with each other. This must have been very hard because the dancers are often broken up into different small groups doing different steps and then seamlessly come back together in perfect synchronization. The film was shot at twice the usual frame rate so the dances could be slightly slowed at times to fit the music finally chosen. The whole movie was shot in four days. After months of editing, Brown once again pulled a rabbit out of a hat.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsReflective, thoughtful, not for everyone...but
By Craig Haynes on July 27, 2014
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If you love modern dance and like romantic backstories, this may fill the bill for an evening well-spent with a cuddly partner or bottle! Not a lot of new ground here. Newcomer, Ryan Steele is a talented dancer and whether by training or instinct, a good actor, at least in this role. He effectively communicates the anxiety, uncertainty and youthful, unconscious risk-taking of an 18 year-old breaking-into the hustle, bustle and pace of the big city as an artist in the uber-competitive world of dance. We feel for this character and we want him to succeed. Steele successfully portrays all the awkwardness and social immaturity of his character's age, but exudes a talent that betrays all of that. His dancing, and that of his co-stars, is interesting to watch not only because they are good, but having been taken behind the scenes into each dancer's 'struggle', we are in awe of just how they are even able to to do it. Performing artists are, for that reason, highly entertaining and curious, i.e., despite personal, known demons of internal and external origin, they are able to find that place within--again and again--of grace, purity and innocence and without any obvious constraints, give it up (in public performances, anyway) for the world to wonder, explore, discover and appreciate. I like that and I am forever fascinated by it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Lyric Invocation to Love through Dance
By Drew Odom on September 11, 2014
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All dance pays homage to Eros. There are other gods it may invoke. But no art is as carnal as dance. Its meanings, no matter how abstract, must be incarnate. And they must be musical,at the very least rhythmic, responsive to the human pulse, just as the measures of poetry are.

Five Dances is an original, innovative, beautiful, and above all lyric film. At its heart is its invocation to love through the body's movement, if by 'love' is meant many things in addition to the sexual: for example, the carefulness of touch, the suggestions of glance, the movements of arms and legs, and so on, in response to others' movements and touches and looks. It is lyric because as much of the story is told through those movements, through dance, as by words. In fact, the fundamental narrative of the film is in its choreography. I don't mean just the five dances isolated by the number titles, but throughout the movie as the choreography is tested, rehearsed, changed, prepared for performance.

It is therefore a mistake to separate the "plot" of the film from the dance. Rather, they weave in and out of one another, as the dancers do so often in their dancing. How the dancers dance is affected by what has just happened or is about to happen in their lives. Their lives are part of the continuity of the dance. In the dance numbered three, for example, Chip is most isolated; he dances his solo. In the one numbered five, Chip and Theo dance together and how they dance is now transformed by their having been together in other ways shortly before.

This way of living in and through dance is true for all four dancers, five if one counts the choreographer Anthony who is also part of his piece.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBeauty. Grace. Simplicity. Excellence.
By Jeff Frye on December 9, 2014
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One of the best LGBT movies I have seen in YEARS. The plot is believable and honest. The choreography is stunning and a rightful supporting actor. The talent of these dancers amazes me. I have watched it multiple times, and it still is captivating. If you love the arts and dance, you will love this movie from beginning to end. It's that simple.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNot for the Offended Eyes

Slow but Beautiful. If I didn't know better, I would have thought this was a foreign film.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Wonderful Film. Couldn't be happier.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Saw this on Amazon Prime, and had to have it. Gave to a friend for Christmas also.

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1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

I am a dance fan but did not really like this show

Published 2 months ago by Chryl R.
5.0 out of 5 starsMovie is all and so much more, thanks A ...

Movie is all and so much more, thanks A. Brown for the expertise on how this movie played out. In my opinion, unless you have been there, you just can't see it, but I found this a... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Richard
5.0 out of 5 starssatisfaction guaranteed

I enjoyed this movie - it felt like one long bl-vv job, and is just as (throat) deep.

Published 3 months ago by Noam Eitan
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

Boring

Published 4 months ago by Alexandru G.
5.0 out of 5 starsgreat soundtrack and dancers are amazing

A lovely movie, great soundtrack and dancers are amazing. Quiet subtle emotion expressed with a dance or glance. Read more

Published 5 months ago by N Florida
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

An excellent view into a dancers story line that could easily mirror so many others.

Published 5 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsIt is wonderful.

This movie more than met my expectations. It is wonderful.

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