As usual with musicals, one expects the plot and story-line to be thin and somewhat incredible - this is no exception. However, the music and dance is very impressive and that is the point of what we see here.
The contrast between White middle-class art's passionlessness and poor Black street culture's anger and verve is well-pointed. And so is the fact that ballet is good at telling stories that street dance does not do so well. The idea here is to create a hybrid form between the two - about as likely as a tabloid newspaper with broadsheet content. But the idea of rescuing classical arts from its tendency toward formalism inherent anachronism has its heart in all the right places, despite the fact that such need grant funding precisely because they are so out of date that they render themselves decidedly non-commercial.
The acting is weaker than in Fame and West Side Story which weakens the love storytelling - but the sheer talent on show here is undeniable as the sheer joy of life.
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