Movies: Dance

A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet originally choreographed by the Russian ballet master Asaf Messerer is performed for this film by the interna...

Go into the mind of professional dancing coach Tony Lewis as he brings us the greatest hip hop moves of the 90s....

Ballet is a difficult task, Eva discovers it at the moment when a superior ballerina puts her to the test....

A woman goes on a strange journey through the woods; Bookended by two dreams....

The piece tells the story of why she had to spend a year in hospital. She cedes her place to others and watches “them lend their body to my narcissistic cause”. Half a dozen naked men tell the auto-fiction of this radical artist. Otero, the granddaug...

Mixing visual, sound, and storytelling elements from different eras and regions, "Shadowplay" depicts a world filled with dysfunctional work culture through an unorthodox conflict between an office worker and her shadow, and seeks a hidden connection...

Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By combining choreography and cinematography, the film plays with distorting the human form, offering a visu...

Rosalyn White is a college sophomore that gave up on her dream of dancing after a horrible car accident killed both her parents and twin brother, leaving her with significant hearing loss. Now after getting a chance to start fresh at the local commun...

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An experimental short film combining modern dance and depiction of sculpting....

Early Balkan footage....

This is the first in Lily Baldwin's Paperback Movie Project. Each short film is an interpretation of a novel and explores the fluid relationship between a reader and the characters she is reading. What happens if you you fall into your book? A JUICE ...

Edison and Lumiere footage of the Serpentine Dance, created by Loïe Fuller, is reworked to follow the poetic interpretations of several artists who experienced Fuller’s performances in person: texts of Mallarmé, lithographs of Toulouse-Lautrec, sketc...

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out of the surf and come to the shore, cast their draperies aside and dance a few steps of the ballet, aft...

A short experimental dance film about the use of the body as an instrument of temporal expression, focusing on how our memories are held and revealed in our movement....

A dance by bodies of shifting colors....

Foxy Grandpa and Polly was a comic strip upon which husband and wife team Joseph Hart and Carrie DeMar based a musical for the stage. Here, in the third film of the series, they enter from our left, hand in hand, a sylvan backdrop behind them. They'r...

A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in “Hexentanz”, Mary Wigman is a woman-flower, goddess and a prophetess in turn. Her jerky, sombre and introspective movements proudly claim the expr...

Light Heavy Light follows Melissa JJ Moore as she uses dance as her outlet for emotional expression. Through her annual remount charity show, which goes by the same name, Light Heavy Light, she expresses grief compellingly, leaving the audience with ...

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