Dance in Film · 2003
Honey (2003)
Jessica Alba stars as a hip-hop choreographer from the Bronx who gets her big break as a music video dancer while trying to open a community dance studio.
Honey is a 2003 dance feature film centred on Modern Fusion & Commercial, Hip-Hop & Street Dance. 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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The dance sequences in Honey
25 sequences, 20 with a timestamp — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Danced by Jessica Alba; Laurieann Gibson · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Honey turning Katrina's club challenge into the homemade tape that launches her career.
Katrina takes the Overdrive circle first, and Honey answers in the same cleared pocket while Gina and the surrounding club crowd push the exchange forward. Katrina's side complains that Honey is taking their material, so the camcorder recording becomes both a battle scorecard and the footage Michael Ellis later studies.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Romeo Miller; Zachary Isaiah Williams; neighborhood youth dancers · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Benny dancing in the street circle, then accusing Honey of biting his move.
Cheers pull Honey and Gina toward Benny, Raymond and the other boys as the pavement opens into a compact cypher. The chant of “Go, Benny” gives his solo a name before Honey copies a move, praises his flavor and converts the encounter into an invitation to her class.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Jessica Alba; community-center students · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Honey calling Letitia her inspiration and folding the slipped step into the phrase.
Honey starts the remix with a five-six-seven-eight, but Letitia slips on water and the room momentarily breaks its count. Honey demonstrates one-and-two, three-and-four and places the girl's recovery after the clap, turning a public mistake into a step the whole class must learn.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Romeo Miller; Jessica Alba; Zachary Isaiah Williams; community-center students · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Benny declaring that he is schooling Honey, then taking the center of her class.
Benny arrives late, refuses the back line and mocks Honey's eight-count breakdown before the class has finished its elbows. He answers with his own floor-centered show-off phrase, and Honey's “comedy hour's over” restores the lesson without pretending his movement was not strong.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by audition dancers (not individually identified) · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
A counted video-audition phrase ending just as Honey is told the open call finished at noon.
Inside the midtown room, dancers finish a counted two-through-eight combination while Honey waits at the desk outside. The coordinator's immediate “Next” closes the studio door on her before she can move, making the visible audition line the precise opportunity her day job has cost her.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Jessica Alba; Laurieann Gibson; Jadakiss; Sheek Louch; music-video dancers · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Honey being dropped into the center row after learning only eight counts of Katrina's routine.
Katrina gives Honey only the first eight counts before she is placed in the center row and playback begins on the Jadakiss set. Michael cuts the take almost immediately because the women still look too choreographed, leaving Honey's careful attempt stranded inside the problem he wants her to solve.
Watch this sequence · This sequence is on YouTube as a standalone clip. Universal Pictures supplies the standalone legal scene clip; the 00:21:36 feature onset is aligned to the named 1080p BluRay subtitle reference.
Danced by Jessica Alba; Laurieann Gibson; Jadakiss; Sheek Louch; music-video dancers · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
The crew rebuilding the Jadakiss video around Honey's solo while Katrina watches her phrase disappear.
Michael clears the formation and asks Honey to imagine that she is back at the Overdrive, giving her the set alone until the other dancers can follow what she finds. The finished playback turns her freestyle into ensemble material, and Benny later recognizes one of his street moves when the video reaches neighborhood television.
Watch this sequence · This sequence is on YouTube as a standalone clip. Universal Pictures supplies the standalone legal scene clip; the 00:22:48 feature onset is aligned to the named 1080p BluRay subtitle reference.
Danced by Jessica Alba; music-video dancers and artists (not all independently identified) · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Honey moving from one playback-driven music-video setup to the next as her career accelerates.
A call for playback launches Honey through a rapid run of staged takes, changing sets and costumes while her dancing remains the montage's continuous line. The compressed jobs make Michael's promise of two more videos before Ginuwine visible as work rather than dialogue, and they end just before her first public introduction as a choreographer.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
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Papi Chulos house presentation
Danced by Harmonica Sunbeam; Papi Chulos house performers (not individually identified) · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Harmonica Sunbeam calling for the judges and receiving four tens at Papi Chulos.
Harmonica Sunbeam announces another night at Papi Chulos as the house performer finishes a runway-style presentation under the club lights. Four perfect tens arrive in sequence from the judges, placing queer ballroom scoring and the “mother of the house” directly inside Honey's first industry networking night.
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Danced by music-video dancers (not individually identified) · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Honey stopping the take to exchange two dancers in the back line.
A full line works Honey's one-through-eight phrase twice before the take is cut. She immediately switches two women in the back, praises their dancing and then studies the set for what is still missing, making placement rather than a flashy solo the scene's choreographic decision.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Tweet; music-video dancers (not individually identified) · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
The dancers descending on Honey's “Fly” count and having to land in plié before the sexy pose.
Honey cues “Fly” on seven and sends the women down from the rig before correcting their arms, landing plié and final pose. Benny watches close enough to be teased about taking notes, so the airborne setup becomes his first practical apprenticeship rather than a backstage visit.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Jessica Alba; Romeo Miller; Zachary Isaiah Williams; community-center students · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Ginuwine walking into the center just after Honey asks the class to clean up the eight-count.
Honey stops the children's phrase after one-through-eight and asks them to clean the counts before a surprise visitor interrupts the room. Ginuwine's entrance turns that ordinary rehearsal into an audition promise, and the same students who were class members now have a concrete video concept to prepare.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Ginuwine; Romeo Miller; Zachary Isaiah Williams; community-center youth dancers · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
The neighborhood children reaching their first professional cut on the Ginuwine set.
Honey's five-six-seven-eight starts the first filmed take built around children styled as Ginuwine's miniature street posse. Michael's “Cut” lands after the group completes the phrase, and Honey's reminder that this is their first job gives the set's matching hair, bling and formation an unusually specific stake.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Ginuwine; Zachary Isaiah Williams; Romeo Miller; Shaker Boys; community-center youth dancers · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Raymond getting his own cue before the Shaker Boys are called forward to shake the front line.
Honey counts the ensemble through one-and-two, three-and-four, then threads Ginuwine through the group before calling Raymond and the Shaker Boys to the front. Their separate entrances stack adult star, smallest child and boys' crew into the pied-piper concept she pitched, ending with the set cheering the children rather than treating them as background.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Laurieann Gibson · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Katrina beginning a replacement solo while Honey's young dancers are ordered off their own set.
After Michael cuts Honey and the children, he gives Katrina music and tells her to listen and move on the same Ginuwine set. Her brief solo is intercut with Honey pleading that he not punish the kids, so the replacement choreography is inseparable from the suddenly emptied youth formation around her.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by agency dancers (not individually identified) · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
The audition line continuing its turn-front-back phrase as Honey is quietly shut out of work.
Women turn front and back on a five-six-seven-eight while Honey waits for another chance at the edge of the room. The agency's refusal arrives over the still-running count, making the anonymous rehearsal a moving door that remains open for everyone except the dancer Michael has blacklisted.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Laurieann Gibson; Missy Elliott · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Missy Elliott halting Katrina's routine and demanding Honey Daniels instead.
Katrina asks for more motion in the hips and launches the replacement phrase after Missy agrees to watch it once. Missy stops the room, mocks the routine as backup dancing for Heather Hunter and catches an M.C. Hammer lift in the material, turning a few counts into a comic audit of Michael's substitute.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Romeo Miller; benefit youth dancers · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Benny busting the juvie move that Honey immediately asks him to teach the group.
Benny interrupts the benefit rehearsal, calls the existing material wack and answers Honey's challenge with a compact floorwork phrase. Her question about whether he learned it in juvie turns his new vocabulary into proof that he can bring something constructive back from detention.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Jessica Alba; Romeo Miller; Zachary Isaiah Williams; benefit youth ensemble · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Benny's move being absorbed into the benefit group as Honey calls one more tight run.
Honey clumps the cast tightly with only days left, calls for music and lets Benny's return feed the next five-six-seven-eight. Her “keep it tight” correction after the run binds his individual juvie phrase into the community-center ensemble instead of leaving it as a separate boast.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Danced by Blaque · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
Honey lining Blaque up in her own studio and ending the film on a fresh eight-count.
Inside the finished Bronx Dance Center, Honey places two members of Blaque on one side and the third opposite before specifying right leg first. Her seven-eight launches the final counted phrase as the film cuts out, replacing Michael's gatekeeping with Honey running both the room and the video preparation.
Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. Sequence onset aligned to the named Honey.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG English subtitle reference; commercial editions may shift. Current U.S. rental access was verified through Fandango at Home on 2026-08-05.
Club freestyle introduction
New Style Hip-HopDanced by Jessica Alba; Joy Bryant; club dancers · Choreography Laurieann Gibson
The social circle shows Honey responding to other dancers, establishing musical adaptability before professional polish.
Wide frames make the ensemble geometry readable, while selective cuts redirect attention without breaking the musical phrase. Layered entrances and changing formations turn the group itself into a visual rhythm, giving the number scale without sacrificing clarity.
Community-center kids rehearsal
Hip-Hop Party Dances (Old School Social)Danced by Jessica Alba; Lil' Romeo; Zachary Isaiah Williams; youth ensemble · Choreography Laurieann Gibson
Group spacing and repeated basics keep the children's different skill levels visible while building shared confidence.
Observational coverage keeps the dancers' full bodies and surrounding community in view, using close-ups mainly to reveal effort and response. Because the film lets attempts, corrections and recoveries remain visible, the sequence shows how the dance is made rather than presenting only a polished result.
Dance benefit finale
New Style Hip-HopDanced by Jessica Alba; Lil' Romeo; youth and community ensemble · Choreography Laurieann Gibson
Successive age groups and crews enlarge the stage, making the community—not the solo choreographer—the image of success.
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.
Dancing for Change benefit showcase
New Style Hip-HopDanced by Romeo Miller; Zachary Isaiah Williams; community-center youth ensemble · Choreography Luther Brown; Laurieann Gibson
The children carrying Honey's “Dancing for Change” showcase through to the encore chant.
After Honey tells the donors that dancing is who the children are, the youth ensemble fills the benefit stage with the phrases built in class and in Benny's return rehearsal. The showcase runs until the crowd demands an encore, making the same neighborhood movement that industry executives discarded the evidence that secures the Bronx Dance Center.
Watch this sequence · This sequence is on YouTube as a standalone clip. Universal Pictures supplies the standalone legal benefit clip. Honey's introduction ends at 01:23:23 in the named BluRay subtitle reference, but the subtitle-silent dance onset cannot be fixed honestly, so the timestamp remains blank/low.
First music-video rehearsal
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Jessica Alba; Laurieann Gibson; backup dancers · Choreography Laurieann Gibson
Counts, marks and camera-facing resets reveal how club vocabulary is reorganized for production.
Observational coverage keeps the dancers' full bodies and surrounding community in view, using close-ups mainly to reveal effort and response. Because the film lets attempts, corrections and recoveries remain visible, the sequence shows how the dance is made rather than presenting only a polished result.
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