THE DANCE OF TWO LEFT FEET

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THE DANCE OF TWO LEFT FEET

ANG SAYAW NG DALAWANG KALIWANG PAA

By Alvin YAPAN

VIM YAPAN / ALEM CHUA PRODUCTIONS - as PROD / FIN

Drama - Completed 2011

Wanting to get to know his teacher Karen, Marlon solicits the help of Dennis to teach him to dance. Dance of Two Left elegantly utilizes poems from Filipino feminists to discuss LGBT issues intertwined with the dances highlighted in the film.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Drama, Art - Culture, LGBT
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- FILIPINO
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Alvin YAPAN
- Writer(s)
- Alvin YAPAN, Christine MUYCO
- Cast
- Paulo AVELINO, Rocco NACINO, Jean GARCIA
- Synopsis
- When Marlon stalks Karen, his literature professor, he finds out that she moonlights as a choreographer and dance teacher. Doing poorly in class, he plans to impress her by enrolling in her dance studio. He hires Dennis. As he learns how his body should move, Marlon begins to understand the intersections between poetry and dance.
  
  Marlon understands how the poems are testaments to Karen’s choice to live the life of an artist choosing to remain single, instead of marrying into luxury. Her only passion is her dance. To support her art, she teaches literature and choreographs for debuts, weddings and other secular events.
  Dennis informs Karen that Marlon enrolled in her class to be near her. She then confronts Marlon. Marlon feels betrayed by Dennis, revealing his closeness to Dennis, whom he now considers a friend. Up until then, Marlon and Dennis have become inseparable tackling the complexities of poetry and dance. They would even discuss during their dance tutorials making sense of the poems for Karen’s class.
  
  Sensing the coldness between the two, Karen trains both Marlon and Dennis to star in her dance adaptation of the epic Humadapnon. Marlon will play the lead, Humadapnon, who’s trapped in a cave full of women. Dennis’s character, Sunmasakay, the male incarnation of the goddess Nagmalitong Yawa has to rescue Marlon from the women.
  
  On the eve of their performance, in a drunken conversation, Marlon confronts Karen how he could not understand her poetry. Karen assures Marlon that he does understand her poetry. His mind is just unwilling to, unlike his body which already understands. Karen invites Marlon to dance with her, but in the middle of her dance, she passes him onto Dennis. Their drunken dance culminates with Marlon and Dennis taking on the roles of Humadapnon and Sunmasakay on stage.