Dance Movies

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

I HAD A... (DREAM) unfolds as a trip where dance, stop-motion animation, sound, and imagery interplay, far from established dimensions and...

OUR STEPS CARRY THE WEIGHT OF THOSE BEFORE US In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the...

Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the...

A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble...

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

This experimental dance film employs a bastardized version of the 1930s three strip Technicolor process. Shot entirely on black and white film...

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

An optimistic young woman finds herself struggling to adjust to the physical and psychological strains of life at the most prestigious ballet academy...

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...

In its heyday, Changa Tuki, aka Raptor House, attracted thousands of young people to afternoon parties called "matinees", from those parties a...

The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in...

The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly...

By a quiet gas station in rural Buenos Aires, a young kid, Ernesto, confesses to his friend that he wants to be a dancer when he grows up. But in the...

A short film about the first Bomba Ancestral returning to the ocean at sunset. Organized by Sheila Osorio and Samuel Lind in Loíza, Puerto...

8 subjects combined explore their physical autonomy and identity, brought together through the movements of Precious Ellis.

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.