Movies: Dance performance

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

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...

Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) with her great partner Stanislav Jermakov. The Zurich Opera House Orchestra is conducted by Russian musical director Vladimir Fedoseyev acclaimed in ...

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....

A foul-mouthed stripper who is caught for drunken driving is legally obligated to teach a group of kids. What started as a community service ends up becoming a means to turn her life around....

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

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake comes to cinemas with a fresh look for the 21st century and is ‘as bold and beautiful as ever’ (★★★★★ Telegraph). This thrilling, audacious and witty production is perhaps still best known for replacing the female corps-de-...

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...

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 It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other fi...

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....

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...

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

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...

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

Short Polish dance film...

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....

The Michael Clark Dance Group perform to the music of T.Rex, Chopin, the Beatles and the Velvet Underground....

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

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