Dance Movies

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

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

A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.

This colorful archival record of Québec City's Winter Carnival shows that many popular events of today—pageants, parades, boat races,...

In this visual poem set in contemporary Mexico, two lovers share an afternoon of passion as an ancient deity from their dreams performs an orgiastic...

Based on the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, a choreographic film by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Gorgeous dancing – and...

In a time before cultural arts education was being policed, a small community of student creatives was taking their hometown by storm. Comprised of...

In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a...

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora...

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".

Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance...

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Oseyi, an eight-year-old boy, lives in the village of Colihaut, in Dominica, which is the home of a particular masquerade/carnival art-form/African...

Social conditioning stifles the human spirit, confining it to a tunnel with no light. In her world, the dancer explores and transcends the duality...

Clara van Gool's graduation film. Still acrobatic movements of two men are watched by a girl, who herself occasionally makes some careful dance...

I HAD A... (DREAM) unfolds as a trip where dance, stop-motion animation, sound, and imagery interplay, far from established dimensions and...

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

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...