Dance Movies

A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as...

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

Artist Statement: "Lovesick" is an abstract analysis of idealization, objectification, and the Other; a dark fantasy peering into how we view and...

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

The use of human hands as characters in a dance inspired narrative are used to explore female experience and representation. By drawing upon...

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

“To begin a new chapter, you must close the last — even if it hurts to turn the page.” Savage Song is a poetic short film that...

Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo,...

Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.

In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an...

Old woman looks outside her apartment window and sees her life passing, or dancing, in front of her eyes.

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

A filmed concert of song and/or dance numbers filmed largely in natural, exterior locations.

Amidst the chaos of city life, a woman finds relief through dance.

Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.

This documentary follows Martha Clarke's creative process for a year as she finds her own voice as a choreographer following her departure from...

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...

A kaleidoscopic view of Black unity through dance, Jersey Club music and its radical history.

This experimental dance film employs a bastardized version of the 1930s three strip Technicolor process. Shot entirely on black and white film...