Dance in Film · 2018
High Strung: Free Dance (2018)
Sequel following new characters at the same dance academy, blending contemporary, ballroom, and street dance in a summer intensive competition.
High Strung: Free Dance is a 2018 dance feature film centred on Modern Fusion & Commercial, Blues & Slow Social Dance, Hip-Hop & Street Dance, Ballet. For dancers, it's a chance to see these styles performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Where to watch: Streaming (various)
The dance sequences in High Strung: Free Dance
22 sequences, 16 with a timestamp — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Danced by Juliet Doherty; Desmond Richardson; Free Dance audition ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
Number 100 disappearing into a hard-driving Broadway open call before forcing a second look.
Zander's five-six-seven-eight launches numbered dancers into a driving phrase while the lyric keeps hammering “Harder” and Ravi watches the casting table. The crowded call makes Barlow's number 100 only one body in a wall of attack, exactly the anonymity she must break before the heels round.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Desmond Richardson; Emma demonstrator; audition ensemble · Choreography Myles Thatcher
Candidates grabbing partners on command while Sammy and Emma demonstrate the lift.
The women shed their ballet shoes, Sammy and Emma demonstrate the partnering task, and strangers pair off before the groups trade lines to “In Icy Waves.” Barlow has to negotiate a lift with an unfamiliar body rather than hide inside unison, making trust itself one of Zander's audition criteria.
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- 00:14:36
Barlow repeats the heels combination
Danced by Juliet Doherty; women's audition ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
Barlow rejoining after her cut and finishing two triples into a layout in heels.
After Zander cuts her for missing a turn, Barlow slips into the last group and lands two triple pirouettes into a layout in heels. Zander later recites those exact feats back to number 100, confirming that her unauthorized repeat forced him to see the dancer he had already dismissed.
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- 00:20:23
Kid Diamond and the Sugar Snaps at Moxie's
Danced by Manuel Pacific; Sugar Snaps ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
Charlie rescuing the Sugar Snaps' floor show after the music disappears.
Kid Diamond fronts the amber-lit room while the Sugar Snaps flank his white hat and cane, then Caroline's entrance is announced as straight from the Moulin Rouge. When the sheet music fails, Charlie improvises at the piano and the dancers pivot into his accents until “Everybody” pulls the whole room back into the number.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Desmond Richardson; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
The cast freezing mid–across-the-floor phrase as Zander throws out the drummer.
Counts send the cast across the studio while Zander orders Barlow to make the far edge on “run, run, hit.” The phrase repeatedly stalls because he says the drummer is rushing, and the musician's firing makes broken tempo the first rehearsal's concrete casualty.
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Danced by Ali Tomineek · Choreography Phillip Chbeeb
Ali Tomineek rapping and moving straight through Times Square without breaking stride.
Alex turns a Times Square sidewalk into a continuous walk-and-rap, punching the rapid “level up” verse while pedestrians and giant signs stream behind him. His forward travel makes the camera chase the bars down Broadway, giving a rehearsal musician his own street-sized production number.
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Danced by Harry Jarvis; Juliet Doherty; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
Charlie winning the job by holding the dancers' second-movement rehearsal together from the piano.
Charlie gets sixteen bars at the rehearsal piano while the cast restarts Act One's second movement around him. The delivery boy keeps dancers and music locked through the trial, so Zander's decision to hire him arrives while bodies are already proving that his tempo works.
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- 00:39:36
Apartment roommate freestyle
Danced by Juliet Doherty; performers playing Ava, Keke and Paloma (not independently identified)
Ava, Keke and Paloma dancing one after another until the neighbor shouts through the ceiling.
Ava's turn sparks Keke and Paloma into floor drops, hip-led bursts and cheers in the crowded living room while Barlow watches from the couch. An upstairs voice finally yells “Keep it down,” making the cramped patch between chairs the loudest part of Barlow's roommate interview.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Thomas Doherty; Desmond Richardson · Choreography Myles Thatcher
Barlow's développé and liquid descent as Zander takes over the stand-in duet.
Zander first asks Sammy to lift Barlow, then takes the partner's place and builds the duet through a chest touch, turn-and-wrap and développé. His instruction to pour onto the floor “like liquid” changes the studio exercise into the ballet duet Harry Jarvis identifies as “Lion,” and the official clip preserves their held eye line through the last turns.
Watch this sequence · This sequence is on YouTube as a standalone clip. The official film channel supplies the standalone scene clip; the 00:42:23 feature onset is aligned to the named 1080p BluRay subtitle reference.
Danced by Juliet Doherty; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Phillip Chbeeb
Barlow dropping from Zander's partner to the back line as the hip-hop counts begin.
Seconds after the pas de deux, Zander orders Barlow back to her normal corps place and counts the hip-hop section from six-seven-eight. The ensemble's angular hits swallow her inside the back line, turning a change of style into an equally sharp change of status.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Desmond Richardson; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
Barlow taking the center for “Wonderful” immediately after the lead announcement.
The cast's congratulations dissolve into counts as “Wonderful” starts and Barlow is told to take big arms into a spin. Zander's command that “all this is your role now” materializes the promotion by moving her through the center while Christie and the corps keep the phrase alive around her.
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Danced by Jorgen Makena; Bollywood ensemble · Choreography Nakul Dev Mahajan
Kayla calling Zander into her rhinestone Bollywood number while Barlow watches.
Kayla arrives at Ravi's party in rhinestones and pop-star sparkle, commanding massed hand patterns and bright formations while the song boasts that she always gets what she wants. She beckons Zander from the audience mid-number, so the huge entrance sells both her celebrity and the exact power that removes Barlow from the marquee.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Jorgen Makena; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Myles Thatcher
Barlow demonstrating the stolen lead while Kayla watches from the studio.
At Kayla's first rehearsal, Barlow dances the lead from just before the pas de deux while the new star studies the role she has taken. Zander corrects a straight leg, a stiff upper body and Barlow's upstage place in the same run, forcing the two women to occupy one part as model and replacement.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Harry Jarvis; Jorgen Makena; Desmond Richardson; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio; Phillip Chbeeb; Myles Thatcher; Nakul Dev Mahajan
Barlow demonstrating amid invisible wires, riser fans and the prepared-piano rewrite.
The technical run threads dancers through a staircase, nearly invisible wires, a flying cyc and fans built into the risers while Charlie shifts a section onto prepared piano. Zander stops the spacing, asks Barlow to demonstrate and then imagines a hard shaft of light on Kayla, exposing how mechanics, music and bodies are being locked together before opening.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Harry Jarvis; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio; Phillip Chbeeb; Myles Thatcher; Nakul Dev Mahajan
Barlow taking Kayla's center position as the Broadway curtain rises on the blue-lit cast.
The stage manager counts three-two-one and the curtain rises only minutes after Barlow is pinned into Kayla's dress. She emerges in white at the center of a blue-lit ensemble, paying off every stand-in rehearsal by placing number 100 inside the machinery built for a star.
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Danced by Juliet Doherty; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
The ensemble continuing as Paloma is carried to medics and Barlow is sent back through the wing.
A shouted “Keep going” lands as Paloma is knocked down and medics pull her toward the wing while the remaining dancers are ordered back onstage. Barlow checks the fallen performer, hears that they will be all right and immediately re-enters, making continuity under a live emergency part of the number's physical demand.
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Barlow audition
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Juliet Doherty; audition ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio; Phillip Chbeeb; Desmond Richardson; Myles Thatcher; Nakul Dev Mahajan
Front-facing audition frames expose line, attack and adaptability under direct comparison.
The coverage alternates between adjudicator-style wide views and reaction shots without abandoning the routine's structure. Clear musical hits, difficulty peaks and formation changes create a legible competitive arc, making the result feel earned on the floor.
Bollywood production number
Bollywood DanceDanced by Juliet Doherty; Harry Jarvis; ensemble · Choreography Nakul Dev Mahajan
Color, hand gesture and massed formations expand the backstage musical into unabashed screen spectacle.
The camera expands and contracts with the number, moving from architectural wides to selective details at musical turning points. Scale, costume and formation changes amplify the choreography instead of replacing it, so the spectacle remains anchored in dancing bodies.
Charlie and Barlow's final reach
Contemporary BalletDanced by Juliet Doherty; Harry Jarvis; Free Dance ensemble · Choreography Myles Thatcher
Charlie reaching for Barlow as Zander watches the show and calls the image perfect.
After the costume change, Charlie finally reaches for Barlow inside the show even though Zander had drilled that the muse must remain unattainable. Zander's whispered “It's perfect” watches his forbidden gesture become the finale's resolving image, allowing the staged romance to answer the rivalry that built the production.
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Contemporary rehearsal duet
Contemporary BalletDanced by Juliet Doherty; Thomas Doherty · Choreography Tyce Diorio; Phillip Chbeeb; Desmond Richardson; Myles Thatcher; Nakul Dev Mahajan
Supported off-axis shapes and held eye-lines let partnering carry the relationship without dialogue.
The framing stays close enough to catch breath, eye-line and lead-follow negotiation, then widens when the partnership needs spatial room. Small weight shifts and pauses carry as much force as the larger figures, which makes the dance register as a live relationship rather than decoration.
Free Dance live-show finale
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Juliet Doherty; Harry Jarvis; Thomas Doherty; ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio; Phillip Chbeeb; Desmond Richardson; Myles Thatcher; Nakul Dev Mahajan
Stage machinery and cinematic cutting escalate with the show while recurring full-stage views preserve formation logic.
The camera expands and contracts with the number, moving from architectural wides to selective details at musical turning points. Scale, costume and formation changes amplify the choreography instead of replacing it, so the spectacle remains anchored in dancing bodies.
Opening courtyard audition
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Juliet Doherty; audition ensemble · Choreography Tyce Diorio
Barlow standing among the unchosen dancers after five audition numbers are called.
Pinned audition numbers scatter across the sunlit stone courtyard as the dancers finish a fast combination and selectors call 13, 14, 49, 12 and 43. Barlow remains outside the chosen cluster, so her number bib turns the film's first dance into a visible record of another rejection.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. The dance begins before the first timed subtitle in the named BluRay reference, so the onset is left blank/low. The official media page supplies the sunlit courtyard stills used to identify the passage.
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