凯特（蕾切尔•史密斯Rachele Smith饰）是个执着追求芭蕾舞梦想的女孩，她未经受过任何专业训练，通过录像带模仿练习，舞技出众。其父沉迷博彩不关心凯特，但是妹妹却力挺她完成梦想。她来到美国芭蕾舞学院面试，然而主考官里弗斯（彼得•盖勒 Peter Gallagher 饰）出于功利放弃了她，选择了名门之后。然而，凯特的舞技还是令人侧目，特别是另一考官库伯（伊桑•斯蒂菲尔 Ethan Stiefel 饰）和入选者汤米（肯尼•沃曼德 Kenny Wormald 饰）。前者曾为她据理力争，而后者则对她一见倾心。后来，因为在夜店一段即兴的HIP-HOP表演，凯特得到了一个HIP-HOP俱乐部的工作机会。同时，汤米开始与她约会，两个人都怀揣着对芭蕾的梦想，所不同的是前曲棍球运动员汤米转型成功，而自学成才的凯特却历经艰难……

The french choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her preparation for her next performance is the main focus of this documentary. The choreography's practices and the bodies, everything is registered in some sort of anthropological way by the filmmaker's camera.

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.