Author:
Baz
Luhrmann
&
Craig
Pearce
Publisher:
Currency
Year:
1999
(5th
edition)
ISBN:
0868193593
Cover:
soft
paperback
Pages:
84
pages
(includes
some
coloured
pages)
Condition:
Excellent
condition.
(A
few
highlighted
words/sentences
on
approx.
7
pages.)
Description:
Strictly
Ballroom
is
a
romantic
comedy
telling
the
story
of
an
Australian ballroom
dancer,
Scott
Hastings.
Scott
comes
from
a
family
with
a
history
of
ballroom
dancing
and
has
been
training
since
childhood.
He
has
become
very
proficient
but
he
encounters
considerable
resistance
when
he
tries
to
dance
his
own
steps
in
preference
to
the
more
traditional
ballroom
moves.
Scott's
steps
are
not
strictly
ballroom.
His
dancing
partner
Liz
leaves
him,
and
he
eventually
finds
a
new
dancing
partner,
and
love,
with
the
plain
and
ordinary
dancing
student
Fran.
At
the
Pan-Pacific
Grand
Prix,
it
is
discovered
that
the
competition
has
been
fixed
by
Barry
Fife,
chairman
of
the
Australian
Dancing
Federation.
Fife
disqualifies
Hastings
and
Fran,
but
they
dance
anyway
and
practically
bring
down
the
house
dancing
the
Paso
Doble,
which
they
have
learned
from
Fran's
father
and
grandmother.
In
the
end,
it
is
not
revealed
whether
Scott
and
Fran
win
or
lose,
as
in
the
story,
that
is
not
an
important
factor.
A
sub-plot
involves
Scott's
discovery
of
his
parents'
hidden
past
-
they
too
had
been
ballroom
dancing
champions
until
Scott's
father
(now
a
quiet
and
retiring
type)
had
attempted
to
flout
convention
with
novel
dance
steps.
Thanks
for
looking!