Sentences with phrase «debutante dance scene»
This trilogy is composed of METROPOLITAN's portrayal of the debutante dance scene in late 60s or very early 70s, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO's re-evaluation of the disco scene of the late 70s and very early 80s, and DAMSELS IN DISTRESS's consideration of how hard it is to start a dance craze in contemporary times.
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, in METROPOLITAN he is for the «ridiculous» Cha - Cha and most especially the highly - organized dances and rituals of the debutante ball scene, and in his latest, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, he is for the collegiate damsels prescribing tap and Astaire for depression, and trying to start their own Latin dance craze.
Where his Metropolitan and Barcelona dropped anchor in immaculately - observed social environs (Manhattan's waning debutante scene and the European refuge of loquacious Americans, respectively), Stillman's modestly - budgeted return to filmmaking holed up in a dreamlike and not especially convincing college setting, where Gatsby-esque self - inventors sought to transform their ugly little world through good soap and new dance crazes.