'Feel The Beat'
April, a professional dancer, reluctantly trains a group of girls at a dance school for the dance competition.
Wolfgang Novogratz
Wolfgang Francis Novogratz (born May 9, 1997) is an American actor and model. He has appeared in the Netflix films Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), The Last Summer (2019), The Half of It (2020) and Feel the Beat (2020). He also appeared in the film Yes, God, Yes (2019).
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