Because of this conversation, Sara and Chenille's friendship becomes strained, and Sara decides to break up with Derek. Later, Chenille tells Sara that she did not approve of the fight, but can understand the bitterness since Sara, a white girl, is "stealing" one of the decent black boys at school. Having achieved his dream of being accepted into Georgetown, Derek convinces Sara to follow her dreams of Juilliard they eventually begin a romantic relationship.Īt school, Nikki picks a fight with Sara. Afterward, Derek returns to Sara and apologizes for pairing up with Nikki they subsequently make up and return to Roy's apartment. While performing, Derek's ex-girlfriend Nikki ( Bianca Lawson) interrupts the two and begins dancing with Derek, making Sara retreat to the bar. Later, they return to the club and amaze others with their dancing.
He takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and, afterwards, she confides in him about her mother and her dreams. He decides to help Sara develop her dancing skills by incorporating more hip hop into her style. At STEPPS, Sara dances with Derek ( Sean Patick Thomas), Chenille's brother and a student with dreams of attending Georgetown University to become a pediatrician. Chenille invites Sara to a dance club called STEPPS, where she has her first experience of dancing to hip hop rhythms. She also transfers to a majority-black school, where she is one of a handful of white students, but quickly befriends Chenille Reynolds ( Kerry Washington), a teenage single mother who is having relationship problems with an ex-boyfriend named Kenny (Garland Whitt). She moves to the South Side to live with her estranged father Roy ( Terry Kinney), a jazz musician who plays the trumpet at nightclubs. Sara is wracked with guilt and gives up ballet. She fails the audition and soon learns that her mother was killed in a car accident in her haste to get to it.
Seventeen-year-old Sara Johnson ( Julia Stiles), a promising ballet dancer in suburban Chicago, hopes to be admitted to Juilliard School and invites her mother to attend the audition.
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