Center stage

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The best quotes from the 2000 dance movie, Center Stage

How 24 pairs of leather pants, a tearaway tutu, and red pointe shoes made for a generation’s greatest dance movie. The cast and crew of Nicholas Hytner’s Center Stage explain how the ballet film got made.

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Though it wasn’t a box office smash, Center Stage twirled its way into audiences’ hearts and became a beloved cult phenomenon in 2000 — two decades later, the now-iconic movie still resonates as a love letter to both dance and New York City. Amanda Schull, who starred as ambitious ballet dancer Jody Sawyer, and production designer David Gropman take EW behind the scenes of the film’s most iconic locations.

Jody Sawyer (Amanda Schull), Cooper Nielsen (Ethan Stiefel) ~ Center Stage (2000) ~ Movie Stills #amusementphile

From a major cut storyline to the mistake that's haunted her for decades, the star takes EW behind-the-scenes of the iconic, cult-favorite dance film.