Movie Montage Monday: 80’s Dance Practice

In an ongo­ing series about movie mon­tages, the dance prac­tice theme was bound to come up sooner or later. Almost every dance movie includes some sort of prac­tice mon­tage, but since I’ve been on a big eight­ies music kick this week (as if I’m never not on an eight­ies music kick), I decided to keep today’s col­lec­tion of mon­tages con­fined to the decade when it was con­sid­ered styl­ish to wear three lay­ers of col­ored socks over tights, even if you weren’t a dancer.

Put on your sparkly leo­tard and dance along at home!

Breakin’

You ain’t no street dancer and you know nothin’ about what we do. You don’t even have a cool street name like Spe­cial K.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

The good old days when Sarah Jes­sica Parker was hot. Here’s Janie and Jeff prac­tic­ing for the big D-TV con­test with a lit­tle help from Shan­non Doherty and Pepsi prod­uct placement.

Stayin’ Alive

The open­ing cred­its to Stayin’ Alive , the 1983 sequel to Sat­ur­day Night Fever , gave us John Tra­volta in tights and a head­band danc­ing the shit out of it. Gay rumors? What gay rumors?

Dirty Dancing

One of the most mem­o­rable scenes from 1989’s Dirty Danc­ing (which totally ripped off The Lift from Girls Just Want to Have Fun , btw). I always wanted a pair of sil­ver sparkly shoes just like Baby’s, even if I’d prob­a­bly never wear them. Oh how I miss late eight­ies era Patrick Swayze.

Footloose

I saved the best for last. Let’s hear it for…the white boy who can’t dance.

What the hell is Movie Mon­tage Monday?

Every Mon­day I come up with a new theme and post a series of related movie mon­tages. There’s no real rea­son for it, I just really like mon­tages. Also it’s kind of a chal­lenge to myself to see how long I can keep it going. I’m bound to run out of themes even­tu­ally, right?

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