Baby, when I tell you in my teens I was OBSESSED with ballroom dancing romantic dramas. It actually started in my preteen years with my all time fav movie and 2 more added to my top 20 fav films, by my early 20’s, Focusing on ballroom dance films though…here are my top 3!
#3) Dance With Me starring Vanessa Williams and Chayanne.
The music was fantastic, the dancing was really done by Vaness and actual well known pro dancing couple, and the story was right up my alley!
So many great dancing performances…but when I tell you this one performance with Chayanne & Jane Krakowski had me in a chokehold! I loved this song from Jon Secada so much I downloaded the Spanish version cause couldn’t find English version.
Also, not for nothing, but this is me just now realizing Kris Kristofferson was in one of my fav ballroom dance movies…
#2) Strictly Ballroom starring Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice. When I tell you I loved me some Paul Mercurio. I even searched for other films and yeah…it’s only Strictly for me.
Strictly had to many fav scenes, but mahn, the way I always find myself humming this song, it might just be my fav song on the soundtrack!
f you have been following me on any of my known socials for any amount of time, then you should already know what my #1 fav ballroom movie and my #1 fav movie of all time is… #IYKYK
1) “Nobody puts Baby in the corner!”
When I tell you, this movie has had me in it’s grasp since I was about 12 years old and nevah let me go…LOL. I still love it…I don’t curr that baby was 17, and Johnny was too damn old…i don’t curr, they stole dirty dancing from Black folk…I DON’T CURR!
There are very few movies I still to this day can visualize the scenes from the soundtrack, but I can promise you I can’t almost absolutely see in my mind’s eys every scene each time any of the songs are played!
I know the most memorable scene is probably this one:
But it’s not even necessarily my favorite scene or song…my actual favorite song (s) my actually be this mix of Otis Redding’s These Arms of Mine and Solomon Burke’s Cry to Me…LOVE IT! Gawd I love that Solomon Burke song so much.
Alright…that’s my top 3 Ballroom Dancing movies…I have some other old comforts, but I wouldn’t put them on my fav lists. These 3 though, are on my all time favorite films list and have stood the test of time for what almost 30 year at least!
So…what are your favs?
And how’d you like this blog post? I’m trying to get back to doing more of them instead of clogging my other socials…LOL. Hit me up if yo want to see more and what you want you’d like to see from me if I continue!
Until next time folks…
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