Dance Movies

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.

Acclaimed dancer Carlos Acosta introduces a new generation of film makers who use b-boying, ballet and contemporary dance to tell their stories....

An innocent tourist travels to LA and unexpectedly conjures her sister's last night alive. Bold score, stylized dance and an eccentric cast, shot at...

A narrative dance film about the hopes and dreams we carry for the future and what happens when they do not come to fruition.

Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz...

Four dancers perform in a violent, wild and organic landscape. A metaphor for what unites human with the biosphere.

“Raised by Krump” explores the LA-born dance movement “krumping,” and how the dance has helped the lives of some of the...

Gwoka drums have resonated in Guadeloupe since the arrival of the first enslaved people. Rooted in the island's rural history and long marginalized,...

A group of near-naked women dance and leap about on a beach.

A small skit-documentary hybrid, written, shot and edited all in the space of a couple of hours on the 25th of October 2021, by exclusively myself,...

The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy...

Light Heavy Light follows Melissa JJ Moore as she uses dance as her outlet for emotional expression. Through her annual remount charity show, which...

A chronological selection from choreographies by Jérôme Bel exploring the political aspects of his dance.

In a culture in which relations of repression are established over the body, the figure of the devil is constantly linked to it, whether through...

A rogue Director turns a run of the mill Hollywood love story into a big band musical with the help of his crew and the out of the loop actors.

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion. The...

When the last Filipino community center in Ketchikan, Alaska, becomes a memory, a 50-year-old Filipina who spent her life resisting her heritage...