After watching Mad Hot Ballroom, i completely fell in love with it. The documentary, directed by Park Sloper Marilyn Agrelo, follows New York public school kids in a citywide a ballroom dancing competition. If you haven't yet seen it, you should run out and do so. Watching Mad Hot Ballroom is worth watching just for the priceless pairings of gawky, grinning 10-year-olds, forced to make eye contact and hold hands at an age when they're still allergic to each other. During rehearsals, as they constantly practiced and practiced, there was always a few students that would simply turn into little clowns. Nevertheless, throughout the whole documentary, i had my laughs and chuckles here and there. In addition, those children were so incredibly adorable! I actually enjoyed every moment of it, and it certainly caught my attention.
I think that the school personally chose to enroll and get those children involved in a ballroom dancing program because you honestly don't see a whole lot of schools, or any schools at all really, start a ballroom dancing program and it would be a change and something completely unique. Living in an atmosphere like how those kids were living in, in a few years, one would predict that the majority of those kids, once all grown up, would be either drug dealers, or to just generally say... criminals of some sort. Therefore enrolling the kids in a sophisticated program such as this, as the kids grown older and older they would learn to appreciate the art of dancing and perhaps continue on and possibly all become famous dancers or something of that nature. In my opinion, having a ballroom dancing program would be incredibly fun, however it is too bad our school will never provide us with any expensive and entertaining program like this.
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