Javier Suarez:
I didn't want to waste the music.
Javier Suarez:
Ok, I'll be the girl!
Dance Class Instructor:
Listen to me. I know that it's scary as hell to let another person touch that part of you. But if you do...
[
smiles and puts her hand on his shoulder]
Dance Class Instructor:
It's worth it.
Katey Miller:
Look at the way they feel the music.
James Phelps:
They're feeling it all right.
Voice Over PA System:
President Batista has fled the country. There is no immediate danger.
Javier Suarez:
It's like dancing with my mother's ironing board.
Javier Suarez:
[
showing Katey how to move her hips] And circle. Come on. Come on. And circle. That's a box.
Jeannie Miller:
You have a choice. You can do nothing. You can hide under the bed...
Katey Miller:
Or you can work through the knots.
Katey Miller:
I am taking you with me.
Javier Suarez:
I am keeping you here
[
places hand over his heart]
Katey Miller:
[
voiceover] Javier once said that dancing is about being exactly who you want to be in that moment. Dancing with him, I realized I was becoming exactly the woman I wanted to be. We didn't win the contest- but we did win something more important to us. On my last night in Havana we were King and Queen of La Rosa Negra. We didn't know when we would see each other again, but we knew that this wasn't our last dance.
Javier Suarez:
You felt the sudden urge for Cuban music?
Katey Miller:
The van left without me, I've been walking for an hour.
Javier Suarez:
I can walk you back.
Katey Miller:
Oh, no, you don't have to do that!
Javier Suarez:
Oh, yeah, you're right. You'll find your way sooner or later. Maybe in a week or a month. Let me just say goodbye.
Javier Suarez:
So, what, you know like five words in Spanish?
Katey Miller:
Maybe ten.
Javier Suarez:
You mean dance with you?
Katey Miller:
God, I'm not that bad. Well, you didn't seem to mind it last night.
Javier Suarez:
I wasn't trying to win a contest.
Katey Miller:
Oh, weren't you?
Javier Suarez:
We didn't win the contest.
Katey Miller:
No, but the consolation prize is pretty good.
[
about Javier]
Susie Miller:
He's not like us.
Katey Miller:
There is no "us", Susie.
Javier Suarez:
Where's the revolution tonight? On the dance floor?
Katey Miller:
Do you have to be such a guy?
Javier Suarez:
Ok.
[
pauses]
Javier Suarez:
Ok, I'll be the girl.
[
fixes his shirt and hair to "look like a girl"]
Katey Miller:
[
laughs]
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