Eliot Feld is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer, actor, teacher and director.
He attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and later studied at the School of American Ballet and the New Dance Group.
At the age of sixteen he appeared on Broadway in the stage version of "West Side Story" and was later cast as 'Baby John' in the film version of the musical.
In 1967 he formed his own company, the American Ballet Company (later known simply as Feld Ballet) and in 1978 a ballet school, the New Ballet School.
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.