Cha-cha lesson with Bieje Chapman before the 2:30PM screening on 9/26/26. Get your tickets today!
A warm, imaginative, vivid, and bonkers love letter to dancing through grief. Haru and her husband loved to compete in Tokyo’s ballroom scene, but when sudden tragedy strikes, Haru falls into depression. Eventually, her friends convince her to dance again in this Sundance Directing Award-winning, cross-cultural nod to Strictly Ballroom and Dirty Dancing. (dir. Joseph Kuota Wladyka, U.S., 2026, 122 min.)
“Shifts from poignant emotion to comedy to surreal scenes that take us inside Haru’s fantasies just as gracefully as the dialogue shifts from Japanese to Spanish and English.” —The Hollywood Reporter
Bieje Chapman is the director of BCDance in Saugerties has a unique & varied performance & teaching background having worked as a musical theatre singer, classical ballet performer, Theatre Arts aerialist and head of various dance programs for children and adults. Bieje continues to train in all aspects of theatre, voice and dance. Bieje’s training experiences include coaching and mentorships from world & national ballroom dance champions, artists from the Broadway stage, the Bolshoi Ballet, New York City Ballet and The Martha Graham Dance Co. Bieje has taught or led programs for the Woodbury Ballet, CT Dance Theatre, Steps in Time Ballroom, Dancesport Manhattan, Asheville Ballet School, Logrea Dance Academy, Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre & the Ogunquit Playhouse, to name a few.
This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
