Movies: Dance

Odette dreams of becoming a ballerina, but the onset of scoliosis threatens that dream....

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...

An exciting dance/video program inspired by the hit film "Flashdance" is performed to some of the day's hottest dance music....

With her dream of pursuing a professional dance career shattered, Nizzy, an upscale British Pakistani, must now fight the odds to keep it alive in a society she never wanted to be a part of....

A sensuous, celebrating smell, touch, color, skin, poetry, painting, sex, and home decorating; to the point of decadence. A man, tired of the debauched and decadent world in which he has lived becomes a recluse, and aims to create his own universe wi...

The first Hirde Dyama National Festival of Culture of the Republic of Guinea was held in March 1970 in the country's capital city of Conakry. The film features many colorful and diverse performances and highlights the protection of traditional West A...

Many young girls dream of becoming ballerinas, but only very few are prepared to apply the all-out effort and make the sacrifices that this dream demands. The famous Vaganova Ballet Academy in St.Petersburg welcomes the most talented and determined y...

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for the first time after years, they are allowed to see the sun. Light as a metaphor for freedom....

Founded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts with the purpose of presenting a fun, entertaining and parodied view of traditional classical ballet. In this video we can see performances of the following acts: "Les Sylphides", "Le Grand Pas de Quat...

A man waits. He longs for and mourns for, his increasingly disconnected and disparate love for a person. Goodbye to Love is an epilogue of a romance, contemplative of a protagonist who meditates on the forking ways his liaisons have left him. Suspend...

Liveset of DJ Coone at Sunrise Festival 2013...

A young woman stumbles upon a seemingly empty estate. Hesitantly she enters and wanders its chilling insides: a Pandora's Box that entices and haunts her with a series of stylized dance tableaux. History reveals itself in these poignant flashes. She ...

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A choreography of Benvindo Fonseca to 19 songs performed live by the music group Madredeus and the dance group Madredeus of Contemporary Ballet of Lisbon. Filmed in Lisbon, at the 'Centro Cultural de Belém', in 29th of June 2006. Madredeus musical gr...

The ultimate video yearmix of 2011. 61 tracks in the mix....

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together....

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and feet appear to be bare. (Library of Congress)...

Short dance film focusing on the Argentine Tango. The location is a wintery, deserted and neglected park. As they dance, two women dressed in close-fitting fur take possession of the park. (EYE filmmuseum)...

BalletBoyz are back with two new works. Set to contrasting scores by Charlotte Harding and Keaton Henson, Them/Us is an inventive double bill asking where we see ourselves in relation to the “other,” and explores the fine balance between them and us....

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