Center Stage 2: Turn it Up or Center Stage 2 (2008) is the official sequel to the 2000 dance

Dance film

Dance Film is the creation of choreography that exists only in the medium of film/video. At its best, DanceFilm uses filming and editing techniques to create twists in the plotline, multiple layers of reality, and emotional/psychological depth....

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 Center Stage

Center Stage

Center Stage is a 2000 American drama film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, about a group of young dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the fictitious American Ballet Academy in New York City...

. The film was directed by Steven Jacobson and written by Karen Bloch Morse, based on characters created by Carol Heikkinen.

It stars Rachele Brooke Smith

Rachele Brooke Smith

Rachele Brooke Smith is an American actress and dancer. Her dance talent has been featured in films such as Center Stage: Turn It Up, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, and Burlesque.-Biography:...

 as Kate Parker, Kenny Wormald

Kenny Wormald

Kenny Wormald is an American professional dancer and actor. He is best known for his appearances on the MTV network show Dancelife, and his starring roles in Center Stage: Turn It Up and the 2011 version of the 1984 film Footloose.-Personal life:Wormald was born in Boston, to Melanie and Edgar K...

 as Tommy Anderson, and also features Sarah Jayne Jensen as Suzanne Von Stroh, with Peter Gallagher

Peter Gallagher

Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007...

 and Ethan Stiefel

Ethan Stiefel

Ethan Stiefel is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre . His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT.-Biography:...

 returning from the first film as Jonathan Reeves and Cooper Nielson, respectively. No other characters, or plotlines, return from the first film, making this an unusual sequel

Sequel

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.

Plot

The film starts with Kate Parker saying goodbye to her friends in Detroit and her sister because she is leaving home to go to an audition for the greatest dance school in America, the American Ballet Academy. Kate doesn't make it and instead of her Suzanne Von Stroh (Sarah Jayne Jensen) is chosen, because of an argument between the director of the school, Jonathan (Peter Gallagher) and one of the teachers, Cooper Nielson (Ethan Stiefel), who has returned to ABA after his ballet company lost its funding. A young dancer, Tommy Anderson (Kenny Wormald), is stunned by Kate and is sure that she passed and got into the academy, but soon he discovers that she was rejected, and he is paired up with Suzanne instead. Kate, homeless in New York City, goes to a club called The Foundry where she finds Tommy and impresses both him and the owner of the club, Sal, who is Tommy's best friend, with her dance moves and energy. She is given a job at the club and sleeps in the upstairs office. Because she needs to find an apartment she agrees to help Tommy with his dance if he pays her.

Soon they start the classes, she finds an apartment, Tommy becomes a great student and is given the opportunity to dance with Suzanne for the famous choreographer Monica Straus. Meanwhile, Tommy and Kate begin to have feelings for each other and become a couple. They break up after Kate sees Tommy dance with Suzanne, for a gala, and at the end of the dance Suzanne kisses him. The next day Tommy finds Kate's sister, Bella (Nicole Muñoz), waiting for her at ABA and takes her to Kate. She then confesses to her sister that she was not accepted into the school and decides to leave New York and go with Bella back to Detroit.

The next morning while waiting for the bus, Bella shows Kate a leaflet Tommy gave her, advertising an audition for "The Glass Slipper", a Broadway ballet version of Cinderella that Monica Strauss is casting. Kate decides to give her dancing dream one last shot. Bella and Kate go to the audition theater and about seven blocks away was the end of the line. Kate gets into a final audition with 2 other girls, Suzanne being one of them, and three boys, including Tommy. Monica Straus asks Tommy to dance with Suzanne but he rejects her and offers the dance to Kate. Tommy got the part of the prince and Kate got the part of Cinderella.

Cast

• Rachele Brooke Smith
  Rachele Brooke Smith
  Rachele Brooke Smith is an American actress and dancer. Her dance talent has been featured in films such as Center Stage: Turn It Up, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, and Burlesque.-Biography:...
  
   as Kate Parker
• Kenny Wormald
  Kenny Wormald
  Kenny Wormald is an American professional dancer and actor. He is best known for his appearances on the MTV network show Dancelife, and his starring roles in Center Stage: Turn It Up and the 2011 version of the 1984 film Footloose.-Personal life:Wormald was born in Boston, to Melanie and Edgar K...
  
   as Tommy Anderson
• Sarah Jayne Jensen as Suzanne Von Stroh
• Crystal Lowe
  Crystal Lowe
  Crystal Lowe is a Canadian-born actress best known for her scream queen roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.-Early life:...
  
   as Lexi
• Peter Gallagher
  Peter Gallagher
  Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007...
  
   as Jonathan Reeves
• Ethan Stiefel
  Ethan Stiefel
  Ethan Stiefel is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre . His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT.-Biography:...
  
   as Cooper Nielson
• Lucia Walters as Monica Strauss
• Nicole Muñoz as Bella Parker
• Harry Shum Jr. as Club Dancer

Release

Center Stage: Turn it Up was first broadcast in the United States on November 1, 2008, on the Oxygen Network. The DVD was released in January 2009, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film was theatrically released in Australian cinemas in October 2008.

Soundtrack

• Raising The Barre - Medusa
• Balloon - Sara Haze
• Give It All I've Got - Bekki Friesen
• Turn Around - Soul P
• Burnin' - Ms. Triniti
• I Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Soul P
• Num Num - The DNC
• You Should Be Gone - Christelle Radomsky
• Loosen Up - Golden ft. Sophia Shorai
• Mista Ambarosia - The Spectaculars
• Don't Sweat - Ms. Triniti
• Street Ballet - Medusa
• Paper Plane - Lucy Schwartz
• A Part In That Show - Chris Joss
• Act Like You Want It - X5 ft. Mr. Fang
• Inside Outside - Miss Eighty 6
• Swing Baby Swing - The DNC
• Nobody Hot As Me - KU
• Rainmaker - Sara Haze
• Ten Things To Prove - Amali Ward
• You Belong - The Skies Of America
• 24 - Jem