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25 years ago today saw the release of Center Stage, the dance movie featuring Amanda Schull and Zoe Saldãna, along with Broadway alums such as Donna Murphy, Peter Gallagher, and Debra Monk. The film follows a group of New York City ballet students working within the competitive world of professional dance, where they must devote themselves to their art with the rigor of Olympic athletes. While experiencing the joys, sorrows, and conflicts of youth, they vie for a place in the prestigious American Ballet Academy and strive to take center stage. Led by Schull as Jody Sawyer, the movie also featured a slew of real-life professional dancers such as Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky, both of whom were principals with the American Ballet Company. It also...

Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky are reuniting to discuss the impact that Center Stage continues to have on their lives 20 years later. As fans of the drama will recall, this film was one of the first dance focused movies of the early 'aughts, with Julia Stiles' Save the Last Dance following the next year. It launched the careers of Amanda and Zoe, both of whom admitted during the reunion that this movie helped them realize that they truly wanted to devote their life to acting.  As Zoe explained it, she had given up on becoming a dancer prior to landing the role. "Booking Center Stage was beyond my...

“Center Stage” stars Zoe Saldana, Amanda Schull, Sascha Radetsky and Ethan Stiefel reunited 20 years after the film’s debut to discuss the cultural touchstone and life-changing ballet film. Between port de bras and pas de trois references and stories about driving Harleys across fancy stages, the cast took this moment to reflect on larger issues of representation and diversity in the ballet community.

Joining together to raise funds for the American Ballet Theatre’s Crisis Relief Fund, a charity that provides aid for dancers, production crews, musicians, ballet staff and faculty impacted by cancellations from Covid-19, the cast shared behind-the-scenes stories and fun memories. But then the conversation turned more serious with a thoughtful breakdown about how “Center Stage” helped dispel stereotypes for male dancers and how much work the ballet community still needs to do for better representation.

Over the years, Schull revealed that she is often approached by...

Jody Sawyer and her terrible turnout are about to pirouette into a new venue: the small screen.

A TV adaptation of the 2000 dance movie Center Stage is in development at Sony Pictures Television, our sister site Deadline reports. Sweet/Vicious creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is on board to write, executive-produce and direct the pilot.

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Laurence Mark, who produced the film and its two sequels — Center Stage: Turn It Up...

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Madonna's celeb friends like Ariana Grande, Sean Penn, Chris Rock, Alex Rodriguez, Dave Chappelle, Karolina Kurkova, and David Blaine participated in the auction where over $7.5 million funds were raised. James Corden served as Master of Ceremonies and kicked off the night saying, "let's toast with Perrier-Jouët for Raising Malawi," at Madonna's star-studded charity bash with cuvées provided by the iconic champagne house.

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Confession: I love Center Stage. A lot. Like “I downloaded Jamiroquai’s ‘Canned Heat’ for when I need to get pumped up” a lot. I even watched the sequel Turn It Up when it premiered (exclusively) on Oxygen.

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I know the films aren’t high art. All I ask for is dance sequences. Lots of them. (Sorry, Starz’s Flesh and Bone — you needed 80 percent less drama and 100 percent more dancing.) So the opening minutes of Lifetime’s threequel movie On Pointe on Saturday were a promising start,...

Attention, lovers of early '00s cinematic classic Center Stage: This is not a drill! Lifetime has made another sequel to the seminal dance movie and E! News has your first look at the new production, Center Stage: On Pointe. Before you start to worry, take a breath: Yes, Peter Gallagher is back as American Ballet Academy boss Jonathan Reeves, Sascha Radetsky is back as dancer (and now choreographer) Charlie, and Ethan Stiefel is back as cocky dancer-turned-choreographer Cooper Nielson (you know—great choreographer, sucky boyfriend). Kenny Wormald and Nicole Munoz are also returning as their Center Stage: Turn It Up characters Tommy Anderson and Bella Parker, who were introduced in the 2008 made-for-tv...

Sneak Peek footage from the Starz Limited Series "Flesh and Bone", from Emmy award-winning writer/executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett ("Breaking Bad"), available January 5, 2016 on Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment:

"...young ballet dancer 'Claire', who has a distinctly troubled past, joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The dark, gritty, complex series unflinchingly explores the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world and New York’s inherent drama.

"Claire is emotionally wounded, sexually damaged, and possesses self-destructive tendencies amid her vaulting ambitions. She is a transcendent ballerina, but her inner torment and aspirations drive her in compelling, unforeseeable ways...

"...especially when confronted with the manipulations of the company’s unpredictable Artistic Director, and an unwelcome visitor from her past..."

Cast includes 22 accomplished ballet dancers including former 'American Ballet Theatre' soloist Sascha Radetsky and Irina Dvorovenko, also a former American Ballet Theatre principal.

Ethan Stiefel formerly artistic director...

Network: Starz

Episodes: Eight (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: November 8, 2015 — December 27, 2016

Series status: Ended

Performers include: Sarah Hay, Ben Daniels, Irina Dvorovenko, Sascha Radetsky, Raychel Diane Weiner, Emily Tyra, Josh Helman, Damon Herriman, Tina Benko, Karrell Williams, Patrick Page, and Tovah Feldshuh.

TV show description:

This drama follows emotionally wounded ballerina, Claire Robbins (Sarah Hay), as she joins New York's American Ballet Company (ABC). Claire's talent and ambitions are in conflict with her self-destructive nature. Rudderless, Claire navigates this new, dysfunctional world, even as she is confronted by her past.

The bipolar, bisexual Paul Grayson (Ben Daniels), is founder and artistic director of the ABC. Once a celebrated dancer, Paul is driven to make ABC the premier ballet company, and he sees Claire as a tool in achieving that goal.

Last night, Starz aired the finale of their Flesh and Bone TV series. Has it been cancelled? Will it return for a second season?

Flesh and Bone revolves around the artists who are part of New York's American Ballet Company (ABC). It explores both the dysfunction and the glamor of the world of ballet. The large cast includes Sarah Hay, Ben Daniels, Irina Dvorovenko, Sascha Radetsky, Raychel Diane Weiner, Emily Tyra, Josh Helman, Damon Herriman, Tina Benko, Karrell Williams, Patrick Page, and Tovah Feldshuh.

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Here’s some welcome news for all of you Sassenachs: The Outlander Season 2 trailer has arrived.

The long-awaited promo gives fans of the Starz series a taste of what’s ahead, including (but not limited to): life in France, the Frasers discussing how to thwart the Jacobite uprising, fancy clothes, a swordfight, sky-high powdered wigs, a battle and — of utmost importance — Jamie caressing an expectant Claire’s baby bump in bed.

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Season 2 of the time-travel/historical drama will premiere sometime in 2016.

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Claire, prepare to have your honor defended.

Outlander has cast Oscar Kennedy as John William Grey, someone who will play an incredibly important role in both Jamie and Claire’s lives for decades to come, TVLine has confirmed. (The series first announced the casting via Twitter.)

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But if you’re a fan of the books who’s dying to meet the smooth, blonde British officer… you’ll have to wait a while. The Starz series is introducing Grey as a boy, the same way readers meet him in Dragonfly in...

The adage “Dance like nobody’s watching” doesn’t really apply to the ballerinas of Starz’s new Flesh and Bone. As members of one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the country, these slender, determined athletes must move like every single step, gesture and facial expression is being scrutinized in microscopic detail.

Because it is.

On that tip, we’d like to hear what you thought of the limited series, which premiered Sunday. But first, a brief recap:

The drama begins in Pittsburgh, as 21-year-old Claire (played by Sarah Hay, Black Swan) hustles herself and her suitcase out...

To hardcore ballet fans, Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky are two of the greatest male dancers of the past decade, both of whom retired after storied careers at American Ballet Theatre. To everyone else, they will forever be Cooper (Stiefel) and Charlie (Radetsky), the swoon-worthy guys vying for the heart of Jody Sawyer in Nicholas Hytner’s Center Stage. In real life, the fan fiction writes itself: Stiefel and Radetsky, along with their ballerina wives (Abt principal dancers Gillian Murphy and Stella Abrera, respectively), are total besties. They’re reunited on Flesh and Bone, Starz’s new ballet-centric drama miniseries debuting Sunday night, created by Breaking Bad producer Moira Walley-Beckett. Stiefel is behind the camera as choreographer, while Radetsky’s warming up his acting chops again as Ross, a talented dancer with his eye on the troupe’s latest addition, Claire (Sarah Hay). Stiefel and Radetsky chatted with Vulture about...

Blood, sex, manipulation. It’s all in a day’s work for the ballet company at the center of Starz’s Flesh and Bone (premiering Sunday).

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The limited series follows ingenue Claire (played by real-life dancer Sarah Hay) as she runs away from her troubled past and falls into a “dark and gritty” situation that is a far cry from co-star Sascha Radetsky‘s circa-2000 dance-themed movie Center Stage, the actor says.

The Starz project “really takes risks,” Radetsky continues. “It explores all the shadier elements of not just the dance world,...

Starz announced today multiplatform, nationwide sampling of the premiere episode of limited series Flesh and Bone. Sampling of the pilot begins tonight, November 2, six days before the season premiere on Sunday, November 8 at 9:00pm Et/Pt. Starz says, “Flesh and Bone follows a young dancer with a distinctly troubled past as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.”

Flesh and Bone stars Black Swan‘s Sarah Hay as Claire. Per Starz, there are 22 ballet dancers in the cast, including Irina Dvorovenko (Kiira), Sascha Radetsky (Ross), Raychel Diane Weiner (Daphne) and Emily Tyra (Mia) from Boardwalk Empire. Rounding out the cast are Josh Helman, Damon Herriman, Tina Benko, and Tovah Feldshuh. Read on for details of this Starz series premiere sampling. Read More…...

Flesh and Bone, an eight-hour limited series, premieres on Starz, Sunday November 8, 2015; check local listings for times. Starz says, “Flesh and Bone follows a young dancer with a distinctly troubled past as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York." The series was created by Breaking Bad writer and Executive Producer, Moira Walley-Beckett. John Melfi (House of Cards, Sex and the City), Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting) and Kevin Brown (Roswell) are Executive Producers. Australian filmmaker David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, Rover) directed the first episode.

Flesh and Bone stars Black Swan's Sarah Hay as Claire. Per Starz, there are 22 ballet dancers in the cast, including Irina Dvorovenko (Kiira), Sascha Radetsky (Ross), Raychel Diane Weiner (Daphne) and Emily Tyra (Mia) from Boardwalk Empire. Rounding out the cast are Josh Helman, Damon Herriman, Tina Benko, and...

Beneath copious sequins and thunderous applause lies the grueling life of a professional dancer, and Starz’s Flesh and Bone is determined to bring you into that world — bloody toenails and all.

In the exclusive video above, series creator Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) and members of the cast and crew take us behind the scenes of the ballet drama, which cast real dancers in the lead roles rather than using body doubles.

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“It felt important that the world of the [ballet] company feel as raw and authentic as we could make it,...

Are you ready to dance the s--t out of it...again?! Every '90s kid who danced at some point in their lives was obsessed with Center Stage. It shaped our youth! We quoted it constantly, we memorized the dances, we wanted those bright red pointe shoes.  So when E! News caught up with Sascha Radetsky, aka "boyfriend material" Charlie, at the 2015 Summer TCA press tour while he was promoting his gritty new Starz series Flesh and Bone (in which he plays a ballet dancer so opposite from Charlie we could barely believe our eyes), we had to ask...could we ever get a Center Stage sequel? (And no, we are not even considering the "sequel" Center Stage: Turn It Up as a real sequel, because we...

The AMC drama Breaking Bad has revealed the talents of a number of its crew over the years, with many of them going on to individual projects that have garnered attention themselves. Among them was writer and executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett, who has penned episodes such as “Ozymandias” and “Bullet Points” for the show. Walley-Beckett’s next project will see her at the helm of her own show, as she created the upcoming Starz series Flesh and Bone.

Billed as a limited series, Flesh and Bone will revolve around an aspiring ballerina in New York City, and will consist of eight episodes, with the cast being filled out by 22 professional ballet dancers. The show’s synopsis is as follows.

Claire, a talented but emotionally troubled dancer, joins a company in New York City, and soon finds herself immersed in the tough and often cutthroat world of professional ballet.

Starz had...

If you’re of the mind that ballet is all about poufy tutus and curtain calls, Starz’s Flesh and Bone would like you to think again.

In the following first trailer for the limited series, a young dancer named Claire (played by Black Swan‘s Sarah Hay) has a very rough introduction to the competitive world of professional ballet.

Insults are yelled, chairs are thrown — though all of the abuse at the studio seems to pale in comparison to what’s going on for Claire at home. (Might the door-banger be the mysterious, unwelcome visitor from her past?)

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Starz is adding to their slate of originals with a limited run series, Flesh and Bone, and it could end up being one of the biggest shows around when it finally hits on November 8th.

It has a lot going for it in terms of getting people interested and talking – Breaking Bad connection, dancer with a troubled past and lots of problems – and with the track record of focusing on quality shows, this one should really be amazing.

Take a look below, and mark your calendars.

Starz Limited Series “Flesh And Bone” To Premiere November 8, 2015 From Emmy® Award-Winning “Breaking Bad” Writer and Executive Producer Moira Walley-Beckett

Starz today announced that “Flesh and Bone,” the eight-hour limited series created by Emmy® award-winning “Breaking Bad” Writer and Executive Producer Moira Walley-Beckett, will premiere on Sunday November 8, 2015.

Starz also released the key art for the limited series shot by photographer James Minchin.

“Flesh and Bone...

The curtain will rise on Flesh and Bone, Starz’s limited series about the competitive world of professional ballet, on Sunday, Nov. 8, the network announced Thursday.

The drama follows young, talented, self-destructive dancer Claire (played by Sarah Hay, Black Swan) as she navigates “the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world.” Over the course of the eight-hour series, Claire is pushed to her limits by her ballet company’s artistic director (Ben Daniels, House of Cards) and shaken by the arrival of an unwelcome visitor from her past.

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Animal Kingdom director David Michôd will direct the first episode of Flesh and Bone, a Us TV drama created and executive produced by Breaking Bad.s Moira Walley-Beckett.

Commissioned by the Starz network, the show stars Sarah Hay (Black Swan) as a young ballet dancer with a troubled past who joins a ballet company in New York. It.s the director.s second Us TV gig after he made an episode of the HBO comedy Enlightened.

.I.m entirely enamoured of the visual, visceral, artful way David tells story,. Walley-Beckett told Deadline.com. .His style and sensibility is very much in alignment with my vision of my show..

The cast includes American Ballet Theatre.s Irina Dvorovenko and Sascha Radetsky, Ballet Arizona.s Raychel Diane Weiner and Boardwalk Empire.s Emily Tyra. The pilot will shoot in New York City in the northern spring.

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Starz has picked up a drama series called "Flesh and Bone" from "Breaking Bad" writer-producer Moira Walley-Beckett -- but the subject matter is far removed from the world of Walter White.

The series, which is to debut in 2015, centers on a talented but emotionally fragile ballet dancer and her fellow dancers in a ballet company in New York. Professional dancer Sarah Hay (above right with Walley-Beckett) has landed the lead role of Claire. Hay appeared in "Black Swan" as a member of the ballet company, but this will be her first on-camera acting role.

"From the beginning, we all agreed this project could not go forward unless we found a world-class dancer who had the ability to convey the widest range of emotions that Moira has written," Starz CEO Chris Albrecht says in a statement. "This is one of the most challenging and dynamic characters I have ever seen and...

Starz has officially green-lighted its gritty ballet drama Flesh and Bone, the network announced today. The show, created by Breaking Bad's Moira Walley-Beckett, follows Claire, a gifted young ballet dancer with a dark, self-destructive past who is a new member of a rigorous New York ballet company. She'll be played by Sarah Hay, who appeared in Black Swan and was most recently a soloist at the Dresden Semperoper Ballett; the cast also includes American Ballet Theatre's Irina Dvorovenko and Sascha Radetsky. Is it so much to ask that one of the Bunheads make an appearance?...

Starz announced today the greenlight of its next original drama series, "Flesh and Bone," created by Emmy award-winning "Breaking Bad" writer and executive producer, Moira Walley-Beckett. "Flesh and Bone" follows a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world. Acclaimed dancer Sarah Hay ( Black Swan ) has been cast in the lead role, joining an already stellar cast of world-renowned dancers, including former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko and current soloist Sascha Radetsky, along with Royal New Zealand Ballet artistic director and former American...

Starz has cast a foursome of professional dancers in its upcoming dysfunctional ballet drama, which now has the title "Flesh and Bone," in addition to bringing on Ethan Stiefel, the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and one of the stars of "Center Stage," as a consultant and choreographer. Former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko, current American Ballet Theatre soloist Sascha Radetsky (another "Center Stage" cast member), Ballet Arizona company dancer Raychel Diane Weiner and Emily Tyra (“Boardwalk Empire”) will all play supporting roles in the series. National auditions are underway for the lead role of "Claire Robbins," a young ballet dancer with a troubled past who joins a prestigious New York ballet company. "Flesh and Bone," which is in development at the network, comes from "Breaking Bad" co-executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett (whose writing credits on the show include the episodes "Gliding Over All," "Bug" and.

Exclusive: Starz is fast-tracking its ballet drama project, now titled Flesh And Bone. No formal green light yet, but the show, from executive producers Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown and John Melfi and creator/exec producer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad), has been actively casting, locking in four accomplished dancers for supporting roles. Additionally, Ethan Stiefel, star of the movies Center Stage and Center Stage: Turn It Up, has joined the project as consultant and choreographer. He is the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre from 1997-2012. Nationwide search for the lead role, Claire Robbins, continues, with more than 1,000 dancers already auditioned. Described as a dark and gritty exploration of the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world, Flesh And Bone follows a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.