Movies: Dance performance

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

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

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....

RABL combines film, early 3D computer animated human movement, and dance. RABL explores the interaction of human bodies and technology with choreography by Patrice M Regnier and the support of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the New York Institut...

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

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violen...

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

From grand spectacles to poignant close-ups, experience Helgi Tomasson's bravura interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet like you've never seen it before. With passionate choreography, spine-tingling swordsmansip, and a celebrated score by Ser...

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...

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...

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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 It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other fi...

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

Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a single work all the enchantment and virtuosity that ballet has to offer. The royal court, the panoramic journey of the Prince to the overgrown castle, and...

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by mus...

Short Polish dance film...

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

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...

A psychedelic combination of Shakespeare, rock & roll and Catholic symbolism in the shape of a Cuban ballet....