Step chronicles the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore. These young women find a unity through their team that pushes them to challenge themselves on and off the stage. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counselors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams: to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives by making it their goal to have every member of their senior class accepted to and graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.
“This ebullient chronicle of a Baltimore girls step team’s senior year matches a fascinating, worthy subject with unabashedly joyful filmmaking.” — Variety
Director’s Biography
Amanda Lipitz is a Tony Award Winning Broadway producer and documentary filmmaker. Her first foray into Broadway producing was at the age of 24 with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. For Broadway, she has produced Legally Blonde The Musical, Modern Orthodox, and A View from the Bridge, for which she won a Tony award.