Actors with Dancing Talent
Actors with Dancing Talent
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#0Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:37pm
Who are some actors you know of who aren't known primarily for their dancing (i.e. not Chita Rivera), but who can dance?
Julia Stiles
Keri Russell
Elizabeth Berkley
#1re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:42pmA lot of Julia Stiles' (good) ballet shots were danced by a double in SAVE THE LAST DANCE. I hardly consider her a dancer.
#2re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:44pm
Ewan McGregor. After Guys and Dolls started I read a lot of reviews that were just shocked that he could dance so well.
Does Catherine Zeta-Jones count as not known primarily for dancing? Even though she's been a professional since what, 17?
Renee Zellweger
I guess OH GOD I forget her name. WHY do I forget her name..the one from Pretty in Pink who was in Cabaret? URGH brain freeze
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#3re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:47pmWell, I enjoyed her dancing in Ten Things I Hate About You, Glebb. She's definitely got rhythm.
#5re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:39pmplease don't forget that tap dancin' tornado--christopher walken.
bunchamuncha
Leading Actor Joined: 3/7/05
#6re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 11:04pmCharlize Theron, Jenna Elfman and Neve Campbell were all ballet trained. And one of my faves, Audrey Hepburn.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#7re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 11:05pm
Good pick, Garland.
Some more:
Victoria Rowell
Finola Hughes
Jeff Fahey
Lea Thompson
#8re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 11:13pmJulia DEFINITELY had a double in STLD. However, she did get very fit, and take as much dance as possible to train for it, so I commend her. But, a rigorous dance schedule doesn't make up for a life of not being in classes. She did a good job, though.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#9re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 11:18pmI assume Marisa Tomei can dance if she was going to be in Sweet Charity.
bwayfan3
Broadway Star Joined: 10/11/04
#10re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/19/05 at 11:39pmJennifer Garner is also a trained ballet dancer. That's why she's so graceful when she's kicking butt on alias.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#11re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 12:22am
It might be a bit of a stretch to call Carmen Electra an "actor", but she can move pretty well.
Carmen Electra & The Pussycat Dolls
#12re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 8:26am
I like Julia Stiles. I just think she would be amongst the first to be cut at an audition for a ballet company.
Neve is very good in ballet slippers and not too bad en pointe. She is a real ballet dancer. Jane Seymour and Emma Samms were also real ballet dancers - well trained and with potential to make it as ballet dancers. Do we consider Jane Krakowski an actress with dance talent (she's a real ballet dancer too) or a dancer with acting talent?
PS - I knew Jeff Fahey at the Joffrey School and he was a very good dancer with perfect ballet legs and feet.
#13re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 8:28amNeve Campbell looked great in The Company, though the film itself left me a little dazed and confused...but she definitely had the training to back up the character.
#14re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 8:31am
Opps, sorry MrMidwest.
I've just reread the first post and see that I should have not brought Jane Krakowski into this thread.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#15re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 9:37am
Oooo...i LOVED The Company...Neve was, indeed, brilliant in that film.
It was bizarre, to be sure, but...impressive and beautiful and simple at the same time. It is a film in its own class.
I dug it.
Don't forget Megan Mullaly, either. Trained and beautiful dancer.
#16re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 10:00amummm....john o'hurley? ha ha.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#17re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 10:37am
"I like Julia Stiles. I just think she would be amongst the first to be cut at an audition for a ballet company."
You're probably right, but I do think that she dances to hip hop with great energy and flow.
I did realize that she was doubled for part of STLD for anyone who thinks I'm that dumb. :-P It was pretty obvious.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#18re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 10:35pmVanessa Williams' dancing in Dance With Me was pretty impressive, I thought.
#19re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 10:37pmGorgeous!
#20re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 10:39pm
(Sorry in advance for going back to the beginning of this thread) BUT...
Julia Stiles didn't do any of her own dance in STLD, I know her double (Chrissy Whitehead), have taken class from her, and she is PRETTY DARN AMAZING.
I don't know where i was going with that. I'm done.
#21re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 10:40pmShe did some of it.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#22re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/20/05 at 11:20pmClaire Danes was featured in this past Sunday's NYTimes as returning to the world of dance, for PS1 here in NY.
#23re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/21/05 at 8:42amI believe Lea Thompson is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts - ballet division.
#24re: Actors with Dancing Talent
Posted: 9/21/05 at 8:53am
Justine Bateman was a super for Joffrey in The Taming of The Shrew at the Dorothy Chandler in L.A. and Cynthia Gibb was a super for Joffrey in Romeo and Juliet at the Dorothy Chandler in L.A.
They were both ballet dancers.
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