Save the Last Dance 2
Save the Last Dancealso known as Save the Last DanceStepping Up is a directtovideo sequel to 2001s theatrical feature Save the Last Dance. It was released to DVD on October 10, 2006 by Paramount Home Entertainment and MTV. While featuring some returning characters, none of the original cast including Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas are retained from the original film. Rhythm and blues singer NeYo makes an appearance in the film.
The film is set soon after the original. Sara has made the first part of her dream come through. Her audition with the Juilliard School of Dance worked out well and she was accepted resulting in her moving from Chicago to New York City. Sara would soon find out that as rough as it was to get there staying would require raising the bar to almost painful heights. Her main dance teacher, Monique Delacroix Jacqueline Bisset is old school when it comes to demanding each student master the traditional and arduous curriculum. She has little to no use for the influence of any other form of dance on ballet so the concept of hiphop is not only foreign to the staid teacher, it is repugnant.During orientation on her first day at Juilliard, Sara meets Miles Sultana Columbus Short, who takes her for a trombone player. When she tells him she is there for ballet, he questions whether she is a ballerina. Sara boldly states that she is already a ballerina she is there to become a prima ballerina. This set up a playful antagonism that ends up in a romantic relationship. Sara also has to deal with the students at her new school. In a high pressure school like Juilliard the more favor you gather with the teachers the more jealousy you encounter from the students. It is a cut throat environment with an extremely high failure rate. Among her new classmates is Marcus Matthew Watling who infuriates Ms Delacroix the first day for wearing pants that swish. Then there is Katrina Maria Brooks destined to be the main rival for Sara. It also turns out that Miles is actually her professor for Introduction to HipHop Theory. Miles invites Sara and her friend Zowi to a club where Sara shows her skills by dancing with a girl, due to her activities in the club she is late for her ballet class and is scolded and punished by Ms Delacroix, despite that Sara tries to impress Ms Delacroix by taking ballet very serious which makes her decline Miles request for her to lead them in choreography but later agre
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