Each winter for a few weeks, senior students at the National Ballet School of Canada trade their usual training for flamenco, taught by two visiting instructors from Spain. The camera stays in the studio and watches technique arrive in real time: the stamping footwork, the hand and arm carriage, the shift in posture that ballet does not ask for. One teacher, Susana, drives much of the film through sheer performing energy, and the young dancers' attempts to match her rhythm and intensity carry the tension of the piece, part concentration, part joy, part visible struggle to unlearn old habits. Cynthia Scott directs without narration, letting classroom sound, clapping, guitar, teacher's counts, do the explaining instead of voiceover. The film runs under thirty minutes and stays entirely inside this one exchange between two dance traditions, ending on the students' first attempts to perform what they have learned. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1983.