Dance Lexie Dance

Dance Lexie Dance is a 1996 short film made in Northern Ireland.[1] 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.[2] The film ends as Laura teaches her father the first steps of the dance.

Dance Lexie Dance
Directed byTim Loane
Produced byPearse Moore
Written byDave Duggan
StarringB. J. Hogg
Kimberley McConkey
Music byJules Maxwell
CinematographyEugene McVeigh
Edited byDeclan Byrne
Production
company
Raw Nerve Productions
Distributed byNorthern Lights
Release date
1996
Running time
14 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom

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 Féis (dancing competition) in honour of which the boat is decked out in red, white, and blue bunting."[3]

Dance Lexie Dance was nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category at the 70th Academy Awards.[4]

References
  1. Film credits available at "Dance Lexie Dance (1996)". Northern Ireland Screen. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  2. "Dave Duggan/ Dramatist and novelist". Derry/Londonderry City of Culture 2013. July 8, 2010. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  3. Barton, Ruth (2004). Irish National Cinema. Psychology Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-415-27894-2.
  4. AMPAS

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