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Rinko Kikuchi is stupendous as a ballroom-dancing widow infatuated with her instructor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

Murray paused, then suddenly swung her low in a ballroom-dancing dip.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 16, 2015

Like Cooper’s amateur ballroom-dancing duet with the delectable Jennifer Lawrence in the movie’s climactic dance-contest scene, Silver Linings Playbook is proudly, almost triumphantly imperfect.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2012

When he dances, cane in hand, he glides like a ballroom-dancing smoothie; he is about as macho as Fred Astaire.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2011

Then he formed a ballroom-dancing act with a 16-year-old girl whom he named Hermosa Jos�, after a five-cent cigar.

From Time Magazine Archive