Julia Stiles can not dance


She does the steps but looks like its difficult for her. She doesn't feel the music and looks stupid trying to dance hip hop. Also her final dance at the auditions sucked the choreography was just awful. If someone danced like that they would not get in to juliard.

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...And you're an expert on this?

I don't think she looks stupid trying to dance hip hop, I'm pretty sure they wrote it to make it look like she's struggling. I danced for 9 years, and I think she did fine.







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She was in this movie for her name not because she could dance.

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I danced for 9 years, and I think she did fine.

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I like Julia Stiles, but she isn't that fantastic of a dancer. The choreography and her dancing wouldn't have gotten her into Juilliard. But I didn't really care - I thought her acting was pretty solid in the movie, and I'd rather have them cast an actor who can't dance than a dancer who can't act.

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I think Julia Stiles represented well, considering she probably couldn't dance like that before hand.Especially the second time at the club.

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Julia Stiles got the role because she's a great actress. Carter was looking for a good actress in the first place, and a good dancer in the second place. She is a good dancer too. I don't know who else would have been better at this, really. She can dance.

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I danced for 20 years. I started at 3 and stopped 2 years after I graduated college. I knew I didn't want to go professional so I didn't pursue it. But, I still love to dance.

I don't understand the criticism of Julia dancing ability. Sara does both ballet and jazz/modern dance. Just because she knows two different styles of dance doesn't mean she knows hip hop, she's not supposed to be good. She's from the suburbs, not exactly a style you would see training at a dance studio. Sara isn't supposed to know hip hop when she's mostly a classically trained dancer. Think Miss Abby at a competition trying to do a hip hop dance routine and the girls didn't place. It was laughable because it's not her style of dance nor her style of choreography.

So actress first, dancer second because most movies about dance use real dancers to fill in for the actress anyway. Jennifer Beals wasn't a dancer, she was an actress, the director and producers used three professional dancers, one being a guy.

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Actually Julia Stiles was cast in the role because she was already an accomplished club dancer, as evidenced by her table dance in "10 Things I Hate About You". It was the ballet she did not know well, and she trained for months to do a lot of that portion herself. I think she is a good dancer and pulled the part off well. I wish I could move like her.

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^agreed. I'd like to see anyone else THAT good of an actor do better. And seriously, some of you would rather have a better dancer than actor? kinda defeats a point of a movie then huh?

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I'm sure the steps were difficult for her. She was not a ballet artist. She had to train for several months before the movie to do the part. I think she did a very admirable job with the ballet bits considering that she wasn't a ballet artist. And I think her character was supposed to look a bit silly when dancing hip hop. The character had never danced that way before...hence Derrick having to teach her. I'm glad that they picked Julia for the movie. The movie was more about the drama anyway so they were more worried about getting a good actor who could pull off the dancing parts. Would you have rather had a good dancer who would look great in the dancing sequences but totally suck in the acting parts? The acting, not the dancing, was the most important part of the movie which is why they went with Julia for the character.

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Both her acting and dancing were bad.

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No, neither one was!

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at the start of the film you didnt see her top half at the same time as her bottom half...not her dancing...then when derrick started training her she did! so....she can dance ok!

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