Movies: Dance

A video animation "commercial" on body movement and self awareness. Charming musical score of George Kleinsinger gives a "sing-along" pattern for dancers Lloyd Ritter and Kei Takei....

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A creature traverses an uncertain terrain...

In the rhythm of the streets of Belo Horizonte, a cultural movement comes to life in Hip Hop battles. "Bounce" reveals inspiring stories of young people who found in dance not only a form of artistic expression, but a path to self-improvement and per...

A genre-bending documentary using dance and physicality to explore themes of youthfulness, fear, regret and aging. The star of the show is New York. The perspectives of elderly citizens of NYC are interpreted physically by a younger generation. The w...

This Danish film shows us a young woman doing a dance, which translates to tarantula. According to the brief bio over at the Europa Film Treasures site, this dance was "influenced" by the delirium caused by the bite of a tarantula....

A newly discovered film showing Tamara Karsavina dancing Mikhail Fokine’s ‘La Danse du Flambeau’ (‘The Torch Dance’). This performance was filmed in 1909. Tamara Karsavina’s shoes are not reinforced at the tip like today’s pointe shoes; she may have ...

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

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Make Me Dance takes an in-depth look at one of the most prestigious dance schools in the United States, The Boston Conservatory, and the work of world-renowned, Harlem-born choreographer Darrell Moultrie as he crafts "Winds of Now" for young ballet a...

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Produced by JVC in collaboration with a Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings editorial board of scholars and Multicultural Media, The JVC Anthology of World Music and Dance presents examples of folk music and dance from eight geographical regions split in...

A visit to a West Berlin dance club....

Animation by Manabu Himeda....

Animated public information film from the Health and Cleanliness Council....

Hussein learnt to breakdance from a soldier in Iraq as a kid, then chased his American Dream to NYC. Now a choreographer, he mistakes a shot at success for a breakthrough and loses everything, but will do whatever it takes to keep dreaming....

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A woman stands in front of a building, a chair to her left, dressed in black, full skirt, quarter sleeves, and a scooped bodice. Her hair is piled high. She bows slightly, and, with finger cymbals, begins to dance the cooch....

Seven choreographers work tirelessly to both question and embrace their chosen form, producing work that celebrates the strange, startling and poetic beauty of dance and performance. Curated by Gia Kourlas. Narrated by the choreographers....

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