Dance Movies

This short documentary describes the process and inspiration behind the creation and performance of a new Cuban ballet based on Afro-Cuban traditions...

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...

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...

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Nate, a workaholic drummer, spends all his time practicing, always striving for perfection. After he meets Yazmine, a like-minded, dedicated modern...

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

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the...

Experimental dance movie of the play "Je te veux de la tendresse" by Bastian A. Miranda

PULSE: a STOMP Odyssey takes us on a world tour of music, rhythm and dance. The film follows the dancers from the celebrated touring show Stomp...

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls...

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

When a widowed father meets a new dance partner, his children react badly. Are they just missing their mother, or is there another reason for their...

Memories haunt a man and blur the lines between reality and imagination.

Men Who Dance is a documentary film by Susanne Svantesson about some men, on the island of Gotland in Sweden, who starts to dance. This is a film...

A Dancer performs in front of an audience of passing cars.

A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local...

Our bonds and connections to one another. What is our suffering when confronted with others suffering? This film aims, through movement, to explore...