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Dance or Die
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	Strictly Ballroom Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.75 Outrageously funny, bittersweet critique of ballroom culture. Nice extras.
	Shall We Dance? Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.47 The American version has its own merits, but most prefer the Japanese original.
	Dance with Me Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.99 Cuban motion, studio culture, a fine soundtrack, and Vanessa Williams.
	Swing Kids Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $2.71 Strongarm tactics of the Nazis are a strange complement to energetic dance sequences.
	Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $12.99 Enormously entertaining. Don't miss out on these Hollywood spectacles of another era.
	An American in Paris Buy used from: $1.30 Music by Gershwin, plus the uber lovely Nina Foch. Consider 'The Young Girls of Rochefort' as well.
	Moulin Rouge (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $2.28 A beautiful modern spectacle. Lovely singing between the principals and some wild bohemian tango.
	Mad Hot Ballroom Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $2.36 Hilarious, heartbreaking, and vastly inspiring. To hell with competition, it's really about where gentler hearts and minds meet.
	Take the Lead Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.94 Did not expect to like this, but it is actually rich and colorful, engaging and thoroughly entertaining. Interesting ballroom culture and some scorching tango, too.
	Billy Elliot Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.14 Hard-edged, colorful tale of a young danseur breaking out of the working class. The dance-off in front of the father is priceless.
	The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $18.50 Tragic ballerina story with cinematography from out of this world. Surreal and old-fashioned in a good way, like the Wizard of Oz.
	Assassination Tango Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.50 Unique meditation on a wayward hit man who develops a thing for the Argentine Tango, among other entrapments.
	Tango Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $11.80 For the obsessed, a little dark history of Argentina.
	The Tango Fundamentals - Volume 1: Basic Elements Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $24.95 If you could only learn one dance.
	Introduction to Ballroom Dancing [VHS] Buy used from: $2.00 It's never too late to start. This is excellent basic instruction.
	Dance the Night Away Over 100 Dances Buy used from: $6.38 Full of standards, but also the strange and wonderful fad dances of yesteryear.
	Tap Dancing: Beginners [VHS] Buy used from: $2.60 Simple progression into a basic routine. Tap is not for everyone, but consider this.
	Ballroom Dancing Basics Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $9.30 A nice couple offering gentle instruction. They were featured competitors in the Vegas finale to 'Dance With Me.'