Save the Last Dance was released in 2000 by MTV Films which grossed $91 million at the domestic box office. Save the Last Dance features a strong female character thrust into a new setting where her sexuality emerges in response to learning a new kind of dance. It tackles the ideological issues of: race, class and women's sexuality. Sara is a high ... dance, but her form of expression is ballet, a dance normally associated with upper and middle class whites. Hip- hop is an expression of black youth and while Sara is no stranger to performance, this form of dancing is nothing like she has see...

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