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Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Susan Glatzer
Produced by	Susan Glatzer
Starring	Dawn Hampton; Frankie Manning; Norma Miller
Cinematography	John MacDonald
Edited by	Heidi Zimmerman; Nick Andert
Music by	Steven Argila
Production; companies	Swing Pictures; Blumhouse Productions
Distributed by	Magnolia Pictures
Release dates	March 14, 2016 (South by Southwest); April 7, 2017 (Internet);
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$68,485

Alive and Kicking is a 2016 American documentary film about swing dancing, its origins in Harlem, and its rebirth starting in the 1990s. It is directed/produced by Susan Glatzer. The film premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival and was subsequently acquired by Magnolia Pictures. The executive producers were Jason Blum and Robert Rippberger.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Dawn Hampton as herself
Frankie Manning as himself
Norma Miller as herself
Rusty Frank as herself
Sommer Gentry as herself
Hilary Alexander as herself
Chazz Young as himself
Michael Jagger (dancer) as himself
George Gee as himself
Dorry Segev as herself
Mary Murphy as herself
Evita Arce as herself
Kimberly Clever as herself
Sharon Davis as herself
Emelie DecaVita as herself
Rebecka DecaVita as herself
Augie Freeman as herself
David Frutos as herself
Andrea Gordon as herself
John Paul Helveston as himself
Jo Hoffberg as herself
Barbara Allison Jone as herself
Meschiya Lake as herself
Sing Lim as herself
Judy Pritchett as herself
Chandrae Roettig as herself
Stephen Sayer as himself
Kevin St. Laurent as himself
Erin Stevens as herself
Tami Stevens as himself
Krystina Torres as herself
Jean Veloz as himself
Lennart Westerlund as himself
Chester A. Whitmore as himself
Zoe The Wonder Dog as herself

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100 percent based on 11 critics, with an average rating of 7.50 out of 10.^[4]

Offering likeable characters and some killer footage of couples throwing each other around at high speed without mussing their hair, the documentary will please at fests and on TV while likely nudging more than a few sedentary viewers to go find dancing shoes of their own.
— The Hollywood Reporter^[5]

Both Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times and Christopher Kompanek of The Washington Post have praised writing and directing by Susan Glatzer.^[6]^[7]

Serena Donadoni of The Village Voice stated that "Although it's been used repeatedly as a movie title, Alive and Kicking perfectly captures the joyous enthusiasm of Susan Glatzer's debut documentary, which presents swing dance as a vibrant, living art form".^[8]

According to Moira MacDonald of the Seattle Times "Though it adheres to documentary convention by picking out a few competitive swing dancers and following them throughout the film, "Alive and Kicking" keeps dancing off into other areas, and we just hold its hand and follow".^[9]

While attending its premiere at the SXSW, Wayne Alan Brenner of The Austin Chronicle wrote "The music, the interviews, the interleavening of stock footage, the way the various modern narratives and backgrounding histories are fitted together: All of this works toward a successful expression of what means a thing because it does have that swing".^[10]