Dance in Film · 2022
Neneh Superstar (2022)
Neneh Superstar places a Black 12-year-old dancer inside the Paris Opera Ballet School’s rigid classical system, pairing Oumy Bruni Garrel’s formal ballet work with hip-hop freestyle to make gatekeeping visible through contrasting movement vocabularies.
Neneh Superstar is a 2022 dance feature film centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Where to watch: Gaumont currently offers the official trailer, but no U.S. streaming, rental, or purchase source was verified on 2026-08-09; JustWatch lists the film as unavailable in the United States. Regional availability may change.
The dance sequences in Neneh Superstar
3 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Ballet-shop dance
Free-form dance in ballet shopDanced by Oumy Bruni Garrel
Neneh dancing mirthfully among ballet clothes and shoes in a warm-toned shop.
The warm, playful shop dance gives Neneh an embodied interval of joy away from the school's surveillance, using free movement and color to restore the self-possession that institutional pressure erodes.
Not currently available to stream; timestamp is for reference. The opened ABC review directly describes Neneh dancing through a ballet shop and contrasts its warmth with the ballet school's cool visual threat; Gaumont verifies the exact work and Oumy Bruni Garrel. The movement style is not identified by the source and is therefore recorded as a taxonomy gap. Gaumont lists the theatrical release as 2023 while displaying a 2022 copyright; the historical and Film at Lincoln Center canonical identity remains 2022. No scene-level choreographer or timestamp is inferred.
Formal ballet-school pirouette
Classical BalletDanced by Oumy Bruni Garrel
Neneh executing a precise pirouette in the cool-toned ballet-school setting while classmates and teachers scrutinize her.
The controlled pirouette places Neneh's classical ability inside the school's exacting visual order, allowing the same body celebrated for skill to become the institution's contested subject.
Not currently available to stream; timestamp is for reference. The opened ABC review explicitly identifies Neneh's formal-school pirouette and the film's rigorous ballet training; Film at Lincoln Center verifies Oumy Bruni Garrel, the ballet boarding-school setting, and the canonical 2022 festival identity. No scene-level choreographer or edition-specific timestamp is asserted. JustWatch reported no U.S. streaming, rental, or purchase option on 2026-08-14.
Street hip-hop freestyle
Hip-hop freestyleDanced by Oumy Bruni Garrel
Neneh moving freely to hip-hop in the street with the same assurance she later brings to ballet.
Neneh's outdoor freestyle establishes that her musicality and confidence exist before the institution evaluates her, making street movement a direct counterweight to the school's demand for uniformity.
Not currently available to stream; timestamp is for reference. The opened ABC review explicitly contrasts Neneh freestyling in the streets to hip-hop with her formal-school pirouette; Villa Albertine identifies Oumy Bruni Garrel and the 2022 film. Generic hip-hop freestyle has no exact supplied dance_key, so no approximate street-style key is substituted. Villa Albertine credits Khalid Benghrib at film level, while a conflicting secondary listing names another choreographer; no scene-level credit is asserted. JustWatch reported no U.S. streaming, rental, or purchase option on 2026-08-14.
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