In becoming well-known and popular of dances has film played a very important role since 1920. 
Many dances are therefore launched worldwide. Some of the key top movies and trendsetters:
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2010 |
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 |
mambo |
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1999 |
Burn the floor |
Ballroom ea |
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1998 |
Dance with me |
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1998 |
Tango, no me dejes nunca |
tango |
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1997 |
The Tango Lesson |
tango |
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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 |
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1992 |
Scent of a Woman |
Al Pacino, Jamie Lee Curtis |
tango |
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1992 |
Strictly Ballroom |
paso doble |
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1990 |
Lambada |
lambada |
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1988 |
Salsa |
salsa |
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1987 |
Dirty Dancing |
Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey |
mambo |
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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 |
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1979 |
Hair (Musical 1969) |
John Savage |
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1969 |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
Jane Fonda, regie Sydney Pollack |
maraton |
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1964 |
Zorba (The Greek) |
Anthony Quinn |
Sirtaki |
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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 |
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1921 |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Rudoph Valentino |
tango |
"In Hollywood they often make such long movies that the film sometimes takes longer than the marriages of the actors." (Barbra Streisand)