Movies: Dance performance

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmmaker Alice Guy....

Paul Czinner recorded, using a multiple cameras technique, the performance of prima ballerina Galina Ulanova of the Russian Bolshoi, doing "Giselle, " while the troupe was on tour in England in 1956....

Aired as part of BBC's 'Nationwide' programming, this documentary captures the leadup to 'The Tour of Life'....

El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the mo...

A cineastic meeting of two characters who are directly related to each other: Camera (Cinematographer) and Dancer. Both can define space/room, but only through interaction. They meet each other in an abstract setting (a white cube) and start a dramat...

Centered on Recife's LGBTQ + electronic scene and the dynamics of its party production, FRERVO is a documentary that follows the experience of the people who organize these events in parallel with the performance experiences developed there. The rela...

In some way, to all of those who took me along at doors and windows opennings wich I never jumped of....

Matt moves into a new apartment. Neighbor Bridger welcomes him with cookies and invites him to his dance recital....

'Sissy Fatigue' follows the insidious transformation of a seductive blonde woman into a rage-fuelled, lip-syncing, six-pack tricking, pearl dripping, bald creature....

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 Samuels Smith come together in a unique East-meets-West dance collaboration that tours through India: ‘Ind...

Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must first confront her trauma before it consumes her....

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....

National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje....

Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other fi...

'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), re...

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

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

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time, ancestry, body and death that intertwine possible paths of transcendence for this state of collective numbne...

A performance based on Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramatic epic poem, first presented at Teatr Laboratorium, Wrocław, Poland, October 10, 1962. Filmed in 1968....

Traditional clay-mation and stop-motion animated film....