Dance Movies

F E R A L – (adj) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication – a year-long project by circus artist and...

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...

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

When Jacques d'Amboise took a group of dancers and members of his teaching staff to China, they worked with acclaimed dancer Dou Dou Huang and more...

Edison and Lumiere footage of the Serpentine Dance, created by Loïe Fuller, is reworked to follow the poetic interpretations of several artists...

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about...

In an old school dance studio on the Hudson River where Merce Cunningham and John Cage lived for years, one gesture is explored in varying speeds:...

“Where We Danced” is the first in a three-part series that chronicles the evolution of American social dance. It tells the story of...

A contemporary dance film by choreographer Talia Miharu inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting, "The Kiss", starring Kaben Benavides and Gabriel Tolmer.

Many young girls dream of becoming ballerinas, but only very few are prepared to apply the all-out effort and make the sacrifices that this dream...

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

Something has gone wrong for a typical Singaporean family. After a man loses his job and the respect of his wife and teenage son, he tries to...

Bubble is a short film performed by Zeena Parkins and the Plastic Girls, Eleanor Hullihan and Erin Cornell in a public park in Brooklyn, NY.

An optimistic young woman finds herself struggling to adjust to the physical and psychological strains of life at the most prestigious ballet academy...

Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion for ballet...

From Norman McLaren to the Grands Ballets Canadiens, to Igor Stravinsky and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vincent Warren has made history....

Janet Adler's moving 1970 short documentary about dance therapy illustrates a therapeutic approach using body and movements. The most powerful...

Carlos Acosta adapts and will dance the lead role in Carmen, his hugely anticipated new ballet on Bizet’s tragic tale of jealousy and desire;...