Dance Movies

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play Clavigo, Roland Petit's ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn between the contradictory...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and followed their lives for a year. The artists, from...

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation...

Early Balkan footage.

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR. In color, with narration.

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

Famous kabuki performer Kikugoro IV performs the Lion Dance, in which a young girl is possessed by the spirit of a lion and transforms into the...

Liveset of DJ Coone at Sunrise Festival 2013

An under-appreciated father, living a humdrum middle-class life, is unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight—and soon he is regarded as never...

Midsummer celebration with dance and courtship in the idyllic Swedish landscape.

Five friends take a getaway trip and stay at Wonder Villa. But, the haunted villa's supernatural powers suck them in and their only chance to survive...

An experimental short film combining modern dance and depiction of sculpting.

In this non-dialogue tale, taking place along the coast of Vietnam, a mermaid is rescued from the fish market by a fisherman. As the hero carries her...

Portrait of Lester Horton, a Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer and teacher who trained many world-reknowned dancers and built the first...

A young boy accidentally squeezes his pet bird to death. At sunset the bird resurrects itself and confronts the boy with his actions.

A group of near-naked women dance and leap about on a beach.

The lives of Jaipong dancers who persistently uphold tradition amidst economic pressures and changing times. Through their moving bodies and...