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Costumes Toronto

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First Position: A Young Rèvèrence (thepoliticker.observer)

A popular and critical success at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the touching documentary _First Position_ is of interest not only to ballet fans but to anyone who has ever faced tremendous odds to make a dream come true. This is a film of charm and fire about six enormously talented ballet students (seven, actually, but one drops out) on their way to the Youth America Grand Prix, the world’s largest ballet competition that awards full scholarships and job contracts to aspiring dancers ages 9 to 19. More than 5,000 hopefuls enter the semifinals held in 15 cities around the globe. Only 300 of them make it to the finals in New York, where judges from 30 major dance companies reward or reject them, one by one, changing their lives forever. The future virtuosos _First Position_ focuses on are some of the most likeable, passionate and dedicated kids you will ever meet. Aran, the 11-year- old son of a U.S. Navy doctor who lives on a military base near Naples and travels two hours every day to a dance class in Rome, has been knocking himself out at the bar since he was 4. ...

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