Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a poignant comedy filled with music and dance, that also addresses the issues of intolerance and ageism. The film stars Gena Rowlands, Julian Sands, Kathleen Rose Perkins, two time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver, Oscar winner Rita Moreno and is directed by two-time Emmy winner Arthur Allan Seidelman. The screenplay is by two-time Writers Guild Award winner Richard Alfieri, based on his play.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a touching and human, yet madcap comedy about a formidable retired woman, Lily Harrison (Gena Rowlands), who hires an acerbic dance instructor, Michael Minetti (Cheyenne Jackson), to give her private dance lessons —one per week for six weeks— in her Gulf-front condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

What begins as an incompatible relationship blossoms into an intimate friendship as these two people from very different backgrounds reveal their secrets, fears, and joys while dancing the Swing, Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, Cha-Cha, and Contemporary Dance. By the final lesson, Lily shares her most closely guarded secret and he shares his greatest gifts, his loyalty and compassion.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks , was produced by György Gattyán, András Somkuti, and Thomas H. Brodek and Executive produced by Marc Platt, Jerry Offsay and Bruno P. György. Cinematography was by Academy Award winner Vilmos Zsigmond. Zsigmond has also received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society of Cinematographers and the Cannes Film Festival.

Ms. Rowlands recently won the LA Film Critics Life-time Achievement Award – and will soon be honored with the same award from the Savannah Film Festival. Additionally, she has previously won two Golden Globes (A Woman Under the Influence and The Betty Ford Story), and has received two Academy Award nominations (A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria).