ANTONIO BANDERAS SAYS DANCE, DON’T DO DRUGS

Antonio Banderas takes on the inner city’s roughest and toughest highschool kids and turns them into well-mannered ballroom dancers in the film Take The Lead.

While making the film he says he discovered that dance might be a way of teaching these forgotten teens to stay away from guns and drugs.

“Sometimes our society forgets about these types of kids that are in neighborhoods and public schools that are very susceptible to end up with a gun in their hands easily and drugs, multiple things. If you put a little attention and a little love the results are magnificent and you can change literally society because they are the future.”

The future continues for Pierre Dulaine’s Ballroom Dancing program which currently has 120 schools in all 5 boroughs teaching over 12,000 kids how to tango.