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	Mad Hot Ballroom
		Judging from the theatrical trailers for Mad Hot Ballroom, one might expect to encounter yet another kids-in-showbiz tale (common on TV) of obsessive coaches, unbalanced stage moms, and children engaged in uncomfortably unnatural activities.
		Mad Hot Ballroom (rated PG for some thematic elements) instead follows three fifth-grade ballroom dancing classes from three very different New York City public schools, leading up to a big, city-wide dance competition.
		Mad Hot Ballroom begins with a principal of one of the schools explaining that she doesn't particularly like "hard competition" and "winning" (almost as if they're dirty words), but has stuck with the ballroom dancing program because of the obvious rewards.
	movies.worldmagblog.com /movies/archives/016027.html (354 words)

	Review: Mad Hot Ballroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mad Hot Ballroom is about ballroom dancing in the same way that Spellbound is about spelling bees and Hoop Dreams is about basketball.
		Mad Hot Ballroom follows three schools on the long road from first class to final bow.
		Mad Hot Ballroom isn't just heartwarming and inspiring, it's a remarkable look at a group of children whose most noteworthy trait is that they are ordinary.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mad_hot.html (750 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom
		Ballroom dancing is not the most obvious choice for children, especially boys.
		Mad Hot Ballroom does tend to drag because it is overly long, and because it relies a bit too much on the 'cute' factor to generate laughs.
		All of the want their children to succeed, and they see ballroom dancing as a first step to give them confidence or keep them away from drugs.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/mad_hot_ballroom.html (493 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Mad Hot Ballroom" Movie Review
		Director Marilyn Agrelo’s “Mad Hot Ballroom” is the best documentary bar-none since 1994’s seminal basketball saga “Hoop Dreams.” It is an astonishing, life-affirming journey into New York’s inner cities, chronicling a burgeoning love affair between fifth grade public elementary school students and the world of ballroom dancing.
		The glory of “Mad Hot Ballroom,” much like “Spellbound” before it (but even more so here), is how these children just seem to blossom and grow as they learn more and more about this new and extremely (at least to an 11-year-old) peculiar subject.
		“Mad Hot Ballroom” gives me hope for a brighter tomorrow, a belief these children are going to grow up and help lead us to a brighter future.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/m/madhotballroom.htm (787 words)

	DVD Review: Mad Hot Ballroom
		Not so with the kids of "Mad Hot Ballroom", who appear to be having a great deal of fun learning the art of ballroom dancing.
		"Mad Hot Ballroom" does show all of the awkwardness that happens when kids are forced to dance at this age.
		SOUND: "Mad Hot Ballroom" is presented in Dolby 2.0, but the sound is largely, as expected, documentary-style audio (except for the occasional music track on the soundtrack.) Audio is a little thin at times, but dialogue is still easily understood.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews7/madhotballroomdvd.html (545 words)

	Reviews: Mad Hot Ballroom - Christianity Today Movies
		Mad Hot Ballroom is the documentary that follows the 2004 program in three culturally diverse inner-city schools, from the first dance class to the Finals of the multi-school Rainbow Team Matches competition.
		It is Mad Hot Ballroom's triumph that, watching the kids move with grace across the ballroom floor, we cheer not only for their dance, but for their future.
		Mad Hot Ballroom follows some New York 11-year-olds as they learn the steps of ballroom dancing, tell their own stories, and work their way toward a citywide competition.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/madhotballroom.html (1994 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is a heart warming and amusing documentary about a ballroom dancing competition between 11 year old students at several New York public schools where ballroom dancing is taught.
		It begins as the kids start to learn to dance, at first sometimes awkward and bashful, but by the end of the course the kids are transformed into "ladies and gentlemen" (as the teachers refer to them), miniature versions of accomplished ballroom dancers.
		It will not be surprising if ballroom dancing courses begin to spread in schools through the country.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0438205 (388 words)

	calendarlive.com: 'Mad Hot Ballroom'
		Directed by Marilyn Agrelo, "Mad Hot Ballroom" couldn't exist without a program, run by the American Ballroom Institute, that has brought trained teachers to what at last count was some 7,000 fourth- and fifth-graders in 68 elementary schools across the five boroughs.
		Still a few years from the mad hormones of adolescence, the film's fourth- and fifth-graders, glimpsed on the dance floor and in candid moments outside school, seem hardly likely to embrace the physical touch and constant eye contact ballroom dancing demands.
		But the wonder of "Mad Hot Ballroom" is that these kids embrace dance and even get to love it.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/turan/cl-et-mad20may20,0,6568495.story (640 words)

	Tail Slate - Film Review - Mad Hot Ballroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mad Hot Ballroom documents this program’s surprising success and popularity, wisely capitalizing on the beguiling charm of its stars — the students themselves.
		Mad Hot Ballroom shimmies between schools to capture the wit and confidence evident in TriBeCa’s kids, the good-natured appeal at Bensonhurst, and the Washington Heights team’s competitive focus.
		This is a minor objection, because ultimately, Mad Hot Ballroom turns out a delightful crowd-pleaser that merengues, foxtrots, swings, rumbas and tangos across the screen, daring its seat-bound audience not to twitch along with in time.
	www.tailslate.net /reviews/film/reviews.asp?ID=127 (513 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom (PG)
		The aim of the scheme is that over the course of 10 weeks 11-year-olds learn how to dance in a number of ballroom styles including the tango, foxtrot and swing.
		Mad Hot Ballroom focuses on this as much as it does the dancing, not only filming the children in class but following them at home and around New York.
		Mad Hot Ballroom is on limited release from Friday November 25
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=150999 (522 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Mad Hot Ballroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Participants in New York City's 10-week competitive ballroom dance program, the kids of Public Schools 112 (Brooklyn), 115 (Washington Heights), and 150 (Tribeca) not only learn the importance of "Latin movement," but also how to work together for a goal… and how to look each other in the eye without cracking up.
		Mad Hot Ballroom offers plenty of good tango, swing, rumba, merengue, and foxtrot footage, but its best moments come when Agrelo captures candid conversations between the kids.
		Boys from P.S. 112 play foosball and talk about girls and gay marriage; girls from P.S. 115 have a surprisingly mature discussion about the qualities to look for in a potential boyfriend/mate (he should be educated and have a good future, he shouldn't sell drugs, he should have respect for other people and for you).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/m/madhotballroom.q.shtml (453 words)

	CNS Movie Review: Mad Hot Ballroom
		NEW YORK (CNS) --"Strictly Ballroom" it isn't, but "Mad Hot Ballroom" (Paramount Classics) is nonetheless a generally appealing documentary about ethnically diverse New York City elementary school students, mostly 11-year-olds, competing in a citywide American Ballroom Theater's "Dancing Classrooms" program.
		The schools -- in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn -- are as variegated as the youngsters themselves, from the savvy "downtown" ambience of P.S. 150 to the more poverty-informed air of P.S. 115 in Washington Heights.
		The virtues of the ballroom program are extolled by the teachers who note several instances of problem kids whose behavior dramatically improved.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/movies/05mv576.htm (493 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom - Dayton Daily News movie review
		That word perfectly describes Mad Hot Ballroom, a documentary about 11-year-olds in the New York City Public Schools learning ballroom dance and advancing to the annual districtwide competition.
		There's no way you won't grin seeing the kids gulp a bit as they try to forge "eye-to-eye connections" with their partners or learn to remain composed from the waist up while swaying their generally compact hips in the merengue.
		You won't have to be a ballroom expert to guess before then which school might win.
	www.oxfordpress.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/M/madhotballroom/ddn.html (415 words)

	Raphael Pungin's Blog
		The other good thing about the shows being held in the main ballroom is that the room that was used for the show last year served a different purpose this year.
		Watch out, ballroom dancing is overtaking NBA playoffs, and local bars now show Dancing With The Stars on their TVs.
		A bunch of NYU Ballroom Team members and other college ballroom dancers volunteered to show up in full costume at Dance Chelsea dance studio at 6:30 in the morning to be seen live on TV during Fox 5 Good Day New York program segment on Ballroom Dancing.
	journals.rpungin.fotki.com /dance (2013 words)

	Paramount Classics' Slamdance '05 Doc "Mad Hot Ballroom" Dances Atop the Specialty Box office
		Marilyn Agrelo's "Mad Hot Ballroom" debuted at a pair of locations over the weekend, giving the Slamdance 2005 award-winning doc the lead in the iW BOT with a $22,674 per screen average, grossing $45,348.
		"Mad Hot Ballroom" brought out an array of audiences according to Dinerstein, attracting a diverse age range as well as a sizeable Latino audience.
		The success of Mad Hot Ballroom's opening weekend can not be denied, however, to accurately compare it to the opening weekend of Super Size there needs to be a little bit of clarification.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_050518boxoffice.html (683 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
		Mad Hot Ballroom received a wildly enthusiastic world premiere at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival.
		A certain critical theory goes like this: Since MAD HOT BALLROOM offers us a look at NYC schools from the Washington Heights ghetto to the rich of Tribecca, it could have been a great film (one that included more of the social, economic and whatever) instead of merely being enormously entertaining and legitimately feel-good.
		But it didn't, and it is. And what's here is so spectacularly pleasurable--much more than I, for one, imagined--that you might as well just give in, rent it, sit back, get to know these teachers and their students and watch the kids, initially halting and insecure but finally dancing up a storm.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=133802 (263 words)

	'Mad Hot Ballroom' warms the heart - The Washington Times: Entertainment - May 20, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Mad Hot Ballroom," an oddly overheated title for an endearing subject, distills a semester of ballroom dance instruction and competition among fifth-grade students in New York City public schools.
		The P.S. 150 youngsters also have a memorably softhearted teacher, whose solicitude for her brood is so intense that the thought of the competitive dance season is painful to her.
		Emotionally, "Mad Hot Ballroom" would be no less satisfying if it ended 20 minutes earlier.
	www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20050519-092937-2731r.htm (644 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mad Hot Ballroom at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She mentioned Mad Hot Ballroom and I said, "What?" I was however enticed by the knowledge that we were to see it in a place by the name of Reel Pizza, a...
		The trailer hook for Mad Hot Ballroom (6000 kids; 60 schools; 10 weeks; 1 dream) pretty much tells you what this is all about.
		Mad Hot Ballroom is a true life documentary set in New York City.
	www.epinions.com /mvie_mu-1145792/display_~reviews (744 words)

	Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: Mad Hot Ballroom
		MAD HOT BALLROOM documents precocious fifth graders in the New York public school system learning how to dance and the teachers who are passionate about the Dancing Classrooms program.
		Dancing is MAD HOT BALLROOM'S focus, but Agrelo also observes how the kids, on the cusp of interest in dating, grow into their gender roles.
		The fifth graders are still young enough that they don't seem self-conscious in front of the camera or around one another, but most acknowledge, often in humorous ways, that they're aware of the feelings that they have for members of the opposite sex.
	reeltimes.blogspot.com /2005/05/mad-hot-ballroom.html (1072 words)

	The Green Head - Emporium : Theatrical Release Shop - Mad Hot Ballroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mad Hot Ballroom follows a handful of kids in three different schools from the beginning of their dance classes to the night of the inter-school dance finals.
		Regrettably, the movie fails to pursue the dancers themselves; a few scenes provide glimpses of some smart, articulate kids with vivid personalities and compelling emotions, but the filmmakers make a minimal effort to draw the kids out or explore their lives outside of the classes.
		The reason seems to be one of honesty: honesty in approaching the subject matter, honesty in allowing the lives of the individuals involved in the story to speak clearly without superficially imposed emotion, and honesty in presenting the subject for what it is instead of moralizing or judging.
	www.thegreenhead.com /emporium/B00005JO8W/Mad-Hot-Ballroom.html (1083 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mad Hot Ballroom is going to draw inevitable comparisons to 2003's Spellbound for its portrait of children in competition.
		If there's one frustration to be had in Mad Hot Ballroom, it's that there's no way to find out what happens next with these kids.
		Mad Hot Ballroom is a good start, but only that.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=140724 (597 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: MAD HOT BALLROOM
		As told by the 11-year-old boys and girls from several schools, as well as their adult instructors, we see how the regimented training and practice instills confidence in the kids who all come from various socio-economic backgrounds to compete in the ballroom dancing championship.
		The film could inspire some kids to watch to take up ballroom dancing (or try the same on their own at home).
		A boy comments on having a tall female dance partner, that she was like an adult and then shows that he was looking at her chest with open-mouth awe.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2005/mad_hot_ballroom.html (1250 words)

	blueyonder > channels > Mad Hot Ballroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mad Hot Ballroom is a documentary to melt the cynicism off the crustiest of souls, as it spotlights a group of beguiling NYC dwelling 11-year-olds, who take up Tango and wrestle with the Rumba.
		Culturally-diverse, opinionated kids of Dominican immigrants, and Italian/Asian-Americans, state to camera that ballroom keeps them off the drug-infested streets, (and rather melodramatically), from being kidnapped.
		But it's clear their shining eyes are on the prize to be won in the citywide competition.
	www.blueyonder.co.uk /blueyonder/getContent.do?page=1113574&group=film_page (635 words)

	"Mad Hot Ballroom" Selected for Gotham Prize; Undistributed Film Nominees Unveiled
		"Mad Hot Ballroom" will be honored with a special Celebrate New York prize at the 15th Annual Gotham Awards, according to the Independent Feature Project, which also unveiled nominees for the first "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" Award.
		"'Mad Hot Ballroom' made its first industry outing at the IFP Market in 2004 and to have its triumphant return as part of the Gothams underscores the ability of truly independent films to connect with a diversity of audiences." Last year the prize was awarded to Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
		Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo, Amy Sewell, Michelle Byrd, Al Otro Lado, I Am A Sex Addict, In A Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian, Police Beat, Sir!
	www.indiewire.com /biz/2005/11/mad_hot_ballroo.html (815 words)

	Chicago International Documentary Festival
		Described by one critic as “A kind of Spellbound crossed with Strictly Ballroom,” Mad Hot Ballroom opened this year’s Slamdance Festival.
		Told from their candid perspectives, these kids are transformed from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to "ladies and gentlemen." The film focuses on several schools as their teams move from stage to stage in the competition, eventually focusing on the very best eleven-year-old ballroom dancers.
		The interviews with the students provide riveting insight into their lives growing up in the inner-city dealing with everything from drugs, single parenthood and crime, but provide the innocence that only children can provide.
	www.chicagodocfestival.org /mad_hot_ballroom.htm (252 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom
		Once a year, there's a city-wide contest for them, and Mad Hot Ballroom follows three of the 60 schools involved as they prepare for the contest.
		And although Ballroom is no great shakes as moviemaking - it's sometimes repetitious and its photography is pedestrian - it is nevertheless completely engaging.
		So they keep their upper bodies still, straighten out their spines and, hardest of all, try their best to look their partners in the eye.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0603ballroom0603.html (369 words)

	Mad Hot Ballroom
		Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way.
		Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to “ladies and gentlemen,” on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition.
		Providing unique insight into the incredible cultural diversity that is New York City, this film profiles several kids from three schools (out of 60) at this dynamic age, when becoming that “cool” teenager vies for position with familiar innocence, while they learn the merengue, rumba, tango, the foxtrot and swing.
	www.slamdance.com /2005/festival/film_detail.asp?film_id=603 (112 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Other films including Mad Hot Ballroom, Flightplan and Everything is Illuminated
		According to Marilyn Agrelo's joyfully positive documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, the scheme is a huge success.
		What we don't see much of is the kids at home with their parents, though some of them talk of broken families and the constant threat of abuse.
		Mad Hot Ballroom is a very attractive film about the civilising influence of dancing and formalised social activity.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1651398,00.html (1064 words)

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