Playing like gangbusters with thoroughly engaged audiences, the Paramount Classics release, which eschews fancy technical footwork in favor of straight-ahead storytelling, could find itself dancing off with some similarly spellbinding, all-ages business. First introduced in two schools a decade ago, the American Ballroom Theater's nonprofit Dancing Classrooms provides ballroom instruction in more than 60 New York public schools. For their purposes, director Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell chose to limit their attention to P.S. 150 in trendy Tribeca, P.S. 115, located far uptown in lower-class, heavily Dominican Washington Heights and P.S. 112 in Bensonhurst, a traditionally Italian Brooklyn neighborhood that, because of a recent spike in immigration, is now half Asian.

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