The Israel Film Service Collection

No Left Feet

9 Minutes, 1986
Genre:
Documentary

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Directed by: Nily Dotan
Production Company:Dotan / Aroch Film Production, Israel Film Service
Photographer: Gadi Danzig
Language: Hebrew
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This short documentary film, presented as part of the “A Man and a Place” series produced by the Israel Film Service, follows Sammy Perry, a long-time ballroom dancing teacher who immigrated to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece when he was 17 and went on to found the “Sammy and Son Dancing School” in Tel Aviv. As of 1987, Perry has been a ballroom dancing teacher for 56 years, and his dancing lessons have become a kind of cultural institution in Tel Aviv. Perry shares the story of his Aliyah to Israel, his first-ever dance and the first dance lesson he taught in Tel Aviv. In 1987, decades later, Perry still cannot go one day without dancing, and he continues to teach dancing lessons in each and every style of ballroom dancing as well as some others, including tap dancing. His studio in Tel Aviv is still alive and bustling, with some students remaining for over 20 years, even some who never believed they could dance; as Perry says, “There are no left feet. Anyone can learn how to do anything.”

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