Dance Performance Movies

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...

The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake comes to cinemas with a fresh look for the 21st century and is ‘as bold and beautiful as ever’...

A foul-mouthed stripper who is caught for drunken driving is legally obligated to teach a group of kids. What started as a community service ends up...

Paul Czinner recorded, using a multiple cameras technique, the performance of prima ballerina Galina Ulanova of the Russian Bolshoi, doing "Giselle,...

Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) with her great partner Stanislav Jermakov. The...

Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never completed, and is...

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on...

A performance based on Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramatic epic poem, first presented at Teatr Laboratorium, Wrocław, Poland, ...

A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

This is the story of an unlikely friendship. 68 year old Kathak Master Pandit Das (North Indian classical dance) and 32 year old tap star Jason...

RABL combines film, early 3D computer animated human movement, and dance. RABL explores the interaction of human bodies and technology with...

Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must...

The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories.

Through the voice of its founder Marinella Senatore, the video focuses on a few key themes of The School of Narrative Dance project. The artist...

Short Polish dance film

A cineastic meeting of two characters who are directly related to each other: Camera (Cinematographer) and Dancer. Both can define space/room, but...

An immersion in the creative process of Scene 11, renowned Brazilian contemporary dance group, which completes 20 years of career.

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.