In het bekend en populair worden van dansen heeft de film sinds 1920 een heel belangrijke rol gespeeld.
Veel dansen zijn hierdoor wereldwijd gelanceerd. Een aantal van de belangrijkste toppers en trendsetters:
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Step Up 3D |
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2010 |
Streetdance 3D |
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2009 |
Fame |
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2008 |
Step Up 2 the Streets |
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2008 |
High School Musical 3 |
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2008 |
Center stage: turn it up |
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2007 |
Hairspray |
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2007 |
Stomp the yard |
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2007 |
High School Musical 2 |
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2007 |
How she move |
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2007 |
Bring it on: in it to win it |
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2006 |
High School Musical 1 |
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2006 |
Save the Last Dance 2 |
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2006 |
Step Up |
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2006 |
Take the Lead |
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2005 |
Mad Hot Ballroom |
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2004 |
Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights |
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2004 |
Shall We Dance (Engelse versie) |
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2003 |
One last dance |
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2003 |
Honey |
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2002 |
Chicago |
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2002 |
Assassination Tango |
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2001 |
Moulin Rouge! |
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2001 |
The Way She Moves |
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2001 |
Save the Last Dance |
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2000 |
Mad about Mambo |
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mambo |
1999 |
Burn the floor |
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Ballroom ea |
1998 |
Dance with me |
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1998 |
Tango, no me dejes nunca |
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tango |
1997 |
The Tango Lesson |
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tango |
1996 |
Shall We Dance (Chinese versie) |
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1996 |
Last dance |
Sharon Stone |
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1994 |
True Lies |
Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Tia Carrere |
tango |
1992 |
Scent of a Woman |
Al Pacino, Jamie Lee Curtis |
tango |
1992 |
Strictly Ballroom |
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paso doble |
1990 |
Lambada |
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lambada |
1988 |
Salsa |
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salsa |
1987 |
Dirty Dancing |
Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey |
mambo |
1984 |
Footloose |
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1983 |
Staying alive |
John Travolta |
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1983 |
Flashdance |
Jennifer Beals |
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1980 |
Fame |
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1978 |
Grease |
John Travolta, Olivia Newton John |
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1977 |
Saturday Night Fever |
John Travolta |
disco, hustle |
1979 |
Hair (Musical 1969) |
John Savage |
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1969 |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
Jane Fonda, regie Sydney Pollack |
maraton |
1964 |
Zorba (de Griek) |
Anthony Quinn |
Sirtaki |
1961 |
West Side Story |
Natalie Wood |
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1952 |
Singing in the rain |
Gene Kelly |
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1933 |
Flying Down to Rio |
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers |
samba |
1921 |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Rudoph Valentino |
tango |
"In Hollywood maakt men vaak zulke lange films dat de opnamen soms langer duren
dan de huwelijken van de acteurs."
(Barbra Streisand)