High Strung

Arts movie High Strung has a goofy script and a clichd plot, but the dance sequences and musical performances are memorable, ambitious, and highly enjoyable.

"High Strung" wears its tired let's-put-on-a-show clichs as if they were neon turquoise leg-warmers.

Sure, this is all a familiar tune - but it's still catchy.

The story strings pearls of performance on the flimsiest of plots.

What it loses in thematic richness, the uncynical High Strung makes up for in pure joy.

Hip-hop and classical artists stop, collaborate, and learn.

As in love with dance as The Red Shoes, this spinning, leaping and quite fun dervish of a film should prove an audience pleaser.

Stunning ensemble dancing actually shows a correlation between hip-hop and classical ballet.