Out of that, I became interested and started to study dancing. In high school, in Los Angeles, I was a gymnast, and our coach thought it would be good for the team to take ballet, so this strange little woman came in and gave a ballet lesson to the team. I didn’t start dancing until I was 17, and until then, I had no idea what ballet was. None of my family was involved in the arts. Long: I come from a background not very different from Billy’s. Nevertheless, now that you’ve seen the movie, did you feel that it spoke to you, that it related to your life? Question: “Billy Elliot” takes place in the 1980s in a coal-mining town in England, which is pretty far removed from the time and place in which we all live. Here, in edited form, is what they had to say.
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To help answer these questions, we asked four men in the Chicago dance community to share their thoughts on the movie and their own lives in dance: Daniel Duell, former principal dancer with New York City Ballet and now artistic director of Ballet Chicago Larry Long, artistic director of the Civic Ballet of Chicago and director of the Ruth Page School of Dance Brian McSween and Davis Robertson, both dancers with Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Is this a likely story? Does it accurately reflect the attitudes and problems a young man faces when he chooses dance as his career? Or is it simply a sentimental rendition and a bit of wishful thinking about the life of a male dancer? But Billy, a tough and stubborn kid, perseveres and, in the end, reaches his goal. His widowed father and older brother, both tough coal miners on strike, at first hate the very idea of Billy’s dancing, believing that it means he’s unmanly. In the new and endearing movie “Billy Elliot,” an 11-year-old boy from northeastern England decides, against all odds, that he wants to be a ballet dancer.