Dance Movies

After years on the margins of a ballet company because of her skin color, a young Black dancer finally takes the lead role. As her body is exoticized...

A choreography to cracked linear textural sound. Elements of classical and neoclassical ballet used to choreograph a dancer's movements to jagged...

Blue-collar worker Vince stumbles into a dance school, where he quickly becomes entranced by the music. Miss McKenzie, the school's manager and...

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

The ballroom dancing the world recognizes today is competitive ballroom dance, sometimes known as dancesport. It is comprised of ten dances, which...

Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate...

Four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy decide to take part in a cultural project and investigate the stories of some refugees from Pakistan living...

A dance piece about love.

Giselle(s) revisits the classic Giselle through the lens of violence against women, giving the famous 1841 ballet a contemporary social and political...

Three dancers receive a new flatmate, unaware of what shadowy evil they have welcomed into their home.

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...

Oseyi, an eight-year-old boy, lives in the village of Colihaut, in Dominica, which is the home of a particular masquerade/carnival art-form/African...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

George works in an antique shop run by Lilli. George also has a secret that's consumed many years of his life, a secret that would shock everyone....

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their...

The Finnish modern dancer Noora Hannula dances through this documentary film in her own explosive style. Noora’s life has always been very...

Hunter is about to ask Wendy to the school dance, but she's hiding a big secret from him...

A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.