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....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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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...

The documentary portrayed one of the most established dance companies in Hong Kong which has a history of over four decades. With a tradition of blending Chinese dance and ballet together in the training, the dance company has set sail to re-evaluate...

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Through the voice of its founder Marinella Senatore, the video focuses on a few key themes of The School of Narrative Dance project. The artist describes how the nomadic school, founded in 2013, centers on the concept of "assembly" and collective cre...

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography....

On a bio diverse wasteland, threatened by a looming layer of bitumen, the Beast of the Earth emerges in a prophetic saltation. Through vivid gestures, caught between heaven and earth, the Beast presents the harbingers of mankind's destiny....

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...

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...

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

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....