Movies: Dance

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig....

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

In a waiting room, people exchange glances, bump into each other and become impatient with the situation before starting the dance. This film translates onto the screen the choreographed tensions between the characters, overcome by panic or madness....

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Hussein learnt to breakdance from a soldier in Iraq as a kid, then chased his American Dream to NYC. Now a choreographer, he mistakes a shot at success for a breakthrough and loses everything, but will do whatever it takes to keep dreaming....

A Short Film by Jean Marc Larivière...

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A dance drama telling of a man's journey back into memory and imagination to escape, and finally overcome, a personal crisis. A convent school dormitory is the setting for a chronicle of fleeting impressions told through dance, music and images rangi...

In its heyday, Changa Tuki, aka Raptor House, attracted thousands of young people to afternoon parties called "matinees", from those parties a controversial subculture grew, one that still echoes to this day. This is the story as told by its protagon...

Animation by Manabu Himeda....

'Fibers' is an abstract experimentation with fiber arts, VFX and modern dance, concerning a self inflicted emotional journey based on fear....

The showman of 20th century choreography, Maurice Béjart, stages his distinctive rendering of the beloved Christmas ballet "The Nutcracker" using Tchaikovsky's entire score, supplemented with waltz and accordion music performed onstage by the renowne...

Xia Ji pushes people away with his arrogance and sharp tongue, while Shang Jia is kind and considerate who does things to please others more than it being from the bottom of her heart. What kind of chemistry, will have, the two people with such contr...

Coast Zone […] explores the use of deep-focus, contrasting background figures (often in motion) with those in the foreground (sometimes in extreme close-up). Shot in January 1983, the first screenings at Dean Junior College in Franklin, MA, 7 April 1...

The journey to the world championship is fraught with difficulties for Entity, the UK's most successful and controversial under sixteen street dance crew, as they battle to overcome the many challenges that face them in their bid for glory on the wor...

Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance....

Living as listening: For DJs, life revolves around records. Around sounds. Every life is a story, every DJ is a narrator, every stack of records is an endless collection of stories. Of myths. Of memories. Can we know someone’s life through their reco...

An elegant, powerful and sometimes provocative look at life and death presented in BalletBoyz’s inimitable style....

Alfredo, a bank manager and meticulous researcher of eccentric wigs, after his divorce from Dorotea, the forgetful stingy lawyer and former Scout leader, is finally free to decide on his own holiday. The unexpected arrival of Dorotea and their godchi...

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