Center Stage: Turn It Up
By Marshall Fine
Rating:
Saturday, Nov. 1, 8PM, Oxygen
In this TV movie, a young street dancer (hot newcomer Rachele Brooke Smith) tries to make it in the demanding world of New York ballet. Naturally, she has to face numerous obstacles first, including a school administrator (Peter Gallagher) who doesn't believe she has the talent for the school - and a mean/rich girl ballerina who becomes her rival for the cutest straight male dancer in the school. It's her street cred - her passion and fire - that gets her over the hump. This is a TV sequel to a 2000 theatrical release, "Center Stage," and does have real-life ballet whiz Ethan Stiefel going for it, along with some very watchable dancing. Otherwise, it's pretty clichéd stuff about working hard to overcome adversity and nice (but tough) girls triumphing in the end.
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