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Dance Lexie Dance
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'Dance Lexie Dance' is a 1996 short film made in Northern Ireland.Film credits available at The two principal characters are a widower, Lexie, and his daughter, Laura, who live in Derry. Laura becomes keen on Irish stepdance and on joining Riverdance when she grows up. Traditional Irish dancing is practiced by Irish Catholic families. Lexie and his daughter are Protestant, but Lexie relents and encourages his daughter. Self-taught, Laura enters a dance contest across the River Foyle in a Catholic district. The film ends as Laura teaches her father the first steps of the dance.
Ruth Barton writes of the film's structure, "Symbolically, the film illustrates its theme of bridging divides between father and daughter, Protestant and Catholic traditions, life and death by the device of the boat Lexie (B. J. Hogg) pilots across the Foyle to and from his job, itself a mixed workplace. Finally, Laura performs in a Fis (dancing competition) in honour of which the boat is decked out in red, white, and blue bunting."
'Dance Lexie Dance' was nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category at the 70th Academy Awards.[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1269424357143 AMPAS]
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*[https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/dance-lexie-dance-355 Dance Lexie Dance] at Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
Category:1996 short films
Category:1996 films
Category:British short films
Category:British dance films
Category:Films set in Northern Ireland
Category:1990s British films
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