Dance Movies

Edison and Lumiere footage of the Serpentine Dance, created by Loïe Fuller, is reworked to follow the poetic interpretations of several artists...

Moments of a group of high school students at a party, before the college admission tests start.

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

Acclaimed dancer Carlos Acosta introduces a new generation of film makers who use b-boying, ballet and contemporary dance to tell their stories....

In this emotional documentary, Majid Kessab embarks on a moving journey to his Kurdish homeland, where he delves deep into his family history with...

When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is...

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

"La Gigue" (Gaumont #590) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with...

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

The use of human hands as characters in a dance inspired narrative are used to explore female experience and representation. By drawing upon...

Three dance performances by dancer Valeska Gert.

After Awesome Tapes From Africa's Brian Shimkovitz found the energetic, ecstatic music of Ghanaian musician Ata Kak, the tunes became beloved around...

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

Jaebum and Hyunchae have been a couple for many years. They decide to get married and buy a house before the wedding. When they start decorating...

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their...

A dance thriller devised, directed and choreographed by Olivier Award winner Drew McOnie. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr...

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...

Leaf lives a solitary life, in harmony with nature. Her world takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a mysterious red stiletto. Upon inspection,...