A revolutionary dance movie in High Strung
A hiphop violinist meets a ballerina in the high-energy dance movie High Strung, where two misfits didn’t belong until they believed in each other and go head to head against the best of the best in the Manhattan Conservatory of Arts Peterson Dance contest.
Ruby (Keenan Kampa), a lovely ballet dancer on scholarship who doesn’t seem to fit and Johnnie (Nicolas Galitzine), a British musician playing for money in the subway tunnels finally meet and find harmony to achieve their dreams. Ruby’s world is classical and disciplined; Johnnie’s is improvisational and street smart. When a hip-hop battle gone wrong throws the two artists together, they immediately clash but can’t deny it when sparks begin to fly. Their lives quickly get entangled in the pitfalls that come with competing in New York City.
Starring two of the most promising actors, the breathtakingly talented and world-class dancer Keenan Kampa (Russia’s Mariinsky Ballet’s first American dancer) and Nicholas Galitzine (The Beat
Beneath My Feet) alongside 62 of some of the world’s most exciting and original dancers from London, Paris, L.A. and New York, High Strung is a powerful movie that celebrates dance, music and the boundless optimism and energy of youth, hits all of the right notes and makes all of the right moves. Top-notch choreographer Dave Scott supervised
High Strung’s moves into a perfect fruition. Dave managed to meet the demands of the numerous dance genres required in High Strung from which he draws his inspiration from the highly-successful dance movie’s he’s also choreographed such as Step Up 2: The Streets, Stomp the Yard, So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars. High Strung opens in cinemas on April 20 from Pioneer Films.