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After eleven-year-old Billy Elliot discovers ballet, he suffers the disapproval of his family and friends in his small hometown in northern England, where men work in the coal mines, they don't dance.
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Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999. "John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising...a truly cautionary tale" (Independent)
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
This is the soundtrack to 2009 Tony Award winning musical, Billy Elliot. Some of the hottest British pop stars, such as Marc Bolan, Eagle-Eye Cherry, and Paul Weller, performed songs for this heart-warming British comedy/drama. Titles are: Cosmic Dancer * Shout to the Top * Get It On * I Believe * Town Called Malice * Burning Up * London Calling * I Love to Boogie * Children of the Revolution * Ride a White Swan.
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2.3, Bielefeld University, language: English, abstract: Everington, Durham, 1984 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has just declared war on the mining industry, and therefore, on the entire county. The people have laid down their tools to go on strike, and they are willing to make sacrifices until their fight for better salaries and working conditions succeeds. In this environment, hard men cannot allow themselves to show any weaknesses, because it could lead to the ruin of their families or the entire community. The miners stick together—anyone who falls out o...