Dance Movies

A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white...

A restless young man roves in the gay hotspots of a metropolis. Anonymous places dressed in mirrors, intense colors and kitschy decors are the...

A Victorian couple dancing.

How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures? Collaboratively conceived by director Brian J. Johnson and...

Go into the mind of professional dancing coach Tony Lewis as he brings us the greatest hip hop moves of the 90s.

In a waiting room, people exchange glances, bump into each other and become impatient with the situation before starting the dance. This film...

From Norman McLaren to the Grands Ballets Canadiens, to Igor Stravinsky and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vincent Warren has made history....

At the bottom of the sea, a statue tries to rise to the surface to breathe.

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Vittorio, a professional dancer, falls in love with Marco, the choreographer he is working with. Unfortunately, Vittorio's feelings are not...

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

The multi-award-winning dance film Amelia (2002), directed and choreographed by Edouard Lock and performed by the acclaimed dance company La La La...

"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

Canadas contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps performs Édouard Lock's "Human Sex" .

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

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for...

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes, Sadler’s Wells commissioned four of today’s leading and acclaimed choreographers...

Indira Manikam and her sister took a leap of faith by establishing Tanjai Kamala Indira Dance School (TKI) in Kuala Lumpur. This documentary captures...

“Draw or Die” is the divine imperative received by the painter, Hannah, who is being nurtured by her Grandmother, but controlled by her...