Dance Movies

A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.

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 comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical...

Markku Lehmuskallio has devoted a large part of his documentary work to the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle. In this latest film, co-directed...

Lucas joins a break dancing troupe and, traveling the world, finds himself torn between the life he knows and the chance to do something more....

From Norman McLaren to the Grands Ballets Canadiens, to Igor Stravinsky and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vincent Warren has made history....

They identify the Brazilian dance formation Cia Dita as a "search place": exploring and recreating in artistic production the interactions between...

A boy will do everything he can to get into a dance academy and honor his mother's legacy. Meanwhile, he will try to find out the presence of two...

A light grey room. A slender woman of 50 and a 12 year old boy. Joined together like the links of a chain. Changing positions at a constant rate. One...

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

Two kindred spirits are drawn to each other by fate, and their wills and souls are tested by the punishment of life’s misfortune.

Given its premiere by The Royal Ballet in 1965 with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing the title roles, Kenneth MacMillan's first full-evening...

When her barrettes mess up her pirouettes, an excitable, hyper-focused Black girl must power through the distractions -- and her mother's...

"Luis of Charme" promotes an encounter between father and daughter to address paternity through the memories of a man that dedicates his life to...

At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the...

An experimental dance film exploring wool as a material of transformation, memory, and connection.

A pair wander the streets of Warsaw, meeting famous Polish musicians.

Samba, Popping, and Jazz. Through these dance styles and documentary interviews, Bodies That Tell Stories seeks to discuss the standardization and...

Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.