Dance Movies

Walter Gropius saw stage design as an interplay of various disciplines, comparable to architecture, forming an "orchestral unity." From the...

Two policemen dance the waltz together in an empty grand ballroom.

According to the buttered-cat paradox, cats always land on their feet while buttered toast always lands buttered side down. But if we put a piece of...

A small skit-documentary hybrid, written, shot and edited all in the space of a couple of hours on the 25th of October 2021, by exclusively myself,...

Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles...

A man spends the day frolicking. What is there not to be happy about?

Presents selections from the major works of choreographer Alvin Ailey as performed by his City Center Dance Theater to background music ranging from...

The purity of classical dance meets the opulant exoticism of the Maharajas' India in this 150-year-old ballet, glorified by Nacho Duato for the...

When the last Filipino community center in Ketchikan, Alaska, becomes a memory, a 50-year-old Filipina who spent her life resisting her heritage...

How do humans and animals see each other? Dominique Loreau captures astonishing exchanges of “views” between people and animals who...

Tanti, an 18 year old traditional dancer who is sensitive and often lonely, discovers the true meaning of dance under the guidance of her wise...

Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman whose life was defined by her love for dance. Martha Hill...

In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, a group of young men, willing...

On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...

The complexity of friendship through a platonic bond that runs deep enough to blur love, dependence, and identity. Moving between light and shadow,...

Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.

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

While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more...

L’Art du Bigidi is a short documentary exploring the world of Gwoka — a Guadeloupean tradition of dance, music, and resistance, rooted in...