Dance Movies

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

A woman behind a translucent, dripping shower curtain; a flipbook of memories of a romance from decades ago. Bach's music to round things out.

A crew of strangers converge over a quick slice inside a NYC pizza shop - a casual community hub. When a “contaigent” enters, dance turns...

Joan Denise Moriarty doggedly followed her dream of bringing ballet to every corner of Ireland. A pioneer of early 20th century Irish dance, she...

The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has...

How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures? Collaboratively conceived by director Brian J. Johnson and...

This short documentary profiles the traditional music and pageantry of Polish-Canadians in Manitoba. The heritage and national traditions of Poland...

Original film material from the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer.

Short dance film focusing on the Argentine Tango. The location is a wintery, deserted and neglected park. As they dance, two women dressed in...

On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen-year-old boy who moved her immensely with...

This athletically vibrant and sensual experience explores love across a lifetime. Using dance to inhabit a common mortal story of love born, lived,...

Margarita seeks freedom in a place that judges those outside the norm when her path crosses with Liana’s, a deaf tourist, between the...

According to the buttered-cat paradox, cats always land on their feet while buttered toast always lands buttered side down. But if we put a piece of...

An old abandoned house in Buenos Aires. Four female dancers. Four tangos interpreted by female singers. These elements intertwine in order to narrate...

Prenuptial Tango A plan to extort some money

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...