10 Best Movie Dance Scenes Of All Time

The opening dance number in La La Land is a fun and upbeat song that is nearly impossible not to sing along to once you know the words, but it’s also an important number to set up the tone and themes of the movie. The scene, which was filmed on a stretch of the 105/110 freeway interchange in Los Angeles, is bright, colorful, and extravagant, which is reminiscent of the Golden Age of Musicals, and the song also symbolizes the pursuit of dreams, escapism, connection, breaking conventions, and embracing the present moment.

It’s one of the most ambitious dance scenes as the entire nearly four-minute-long number is shot in a single take and required a busy freeway to be shut down. In fact, some of the drivers in the scene had astonished looks on their faces because they were not actually extras in the scene, but genuine commuters who were stuck in the traffic jam.