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Craft guide / 2 tracks

Telling stories through dance and music

Eleanor Bergstein explains how songs, repeated dance steps, and camera choices develop the characters in Dirty Dancing. Atom Egoyan and Mychael Danna describe planning image, score, source music, and silence together for Exotica. Compare how movement and music communicate relationships before dialogue or plot makes them explicit.

Reading order

Read the commentaries in order.

  1. Dirty Dancing poster

    Part 1 of 2

    Dirty Dancing (1987)

    Eleanor Bergstein

    Writer / 1h 39m / 256 segments

  2. Exotica poster

    Part 2 of 2

    Exotica (1994)

    Atom Egoyan / Mychael Danna

    Multi-voice / 1h 43m / 296 segments