Dance Movies

A short dance film about a hard journey from the sea to the top, and back.

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion. The...

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Alone, Eva Fahidi returned home to Hungary after WWII. At 20 years of age, she had survived Auschwitz Birkenau, while 49 members of her family were...

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

A testimony to the performance of ritual dances. Although they were performed only during the so-called “unbaptized days”, the 12 days...

To free a princess from the tyrannical yoke of a Regent, a boy must overcome the infernal ordeal of the Three-Eared Rabbits, multicolored and...

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

Gopu kesav menon(Hindu upper cast ) and Bilal (Muslim) travel from south to north and on the way they visit Dineshan’s(scheduled cast) home who...

In a dystopian present, a young Japanese-American man battles the cascading effects of his family's wrongful incarceration in the 1940s.

If a drum beats, a Dancer must dance.

Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance...

Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By...

Minutes before leaving the floor that they have shared for years and ending their relationship, Gala and Marçal try to confront all those...

A young woman stumbles upon a seemingly empty estate. Hesitantly she enters and wanders its chilling insides: a Pandora's Box that entices and haunts...

Focuses on the dancer, choreographer, and composer Ernest Berk (1909-1993), who at the time the film was made was 81 years old. Using choreography...

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to...