Three generations pull together in a dance school that dedicate themselves to the Broadway dance. There is LIANG Yi(梁一), an older man who grew up... More

Three generations pull together in a dance school that dedicate themselves to the Broadway dance. There is LIANG Yi(梁一), an older man who grew up in Shanghai and moved to Taipei in 1949 at the age of 17, whose early exposure to rock and roll and Gene Kelly movies during the 1950s has turned him a faithful follower of Broadway dance all his life. There is Yang Yang(揚揚), an iron-willed thirty-year-old woman who grew up in the 1980s, a cultural pragmatist who choreographs crowd-pleasing routines in hopes of becoming successful and famous not only in Shanghai but also in the whole of China. And there is LI Chuan, twenty-five and the leader of a group of young dance students who gather together in Shanghai from different places in China, rebellious and an individualist, who has grown up in the 1990s against the backdrop of China's economic explosion. These three share the same passion for dance but with different underlying beliefs and approaches to their art, and the interplay of their conflicting ideals and faiths reflect the changing dynamics of their times. This is a documentary about young and passionate Chinese, about tap dancing and jazz, mingled with Shanghai's past and presence, in which you will witness genuine ideal and harsh reality. Close