Dance Movies

Film version of the dance performance of the same name.

The first Hirde Dyama National Festival of Culture of the Republic of Guinea was held in March 1970 in the country's capital city of Conakry. The film...

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

Several young and cheerful children share at Cavancha Beach, while a couple begins to dance a cueca.

About the sensuality in Swedish folk dance and folk music. A film that blends dance, fiction and documentary material into a heated, rough and skin-li...

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

Instructed teaching of social dances for the new millennium in dancing school Urska in Ljubljana.

Die Schachtel (The Box),1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

Daughter of Mobius shows the struggles of an independent women living in the early 80s - an era when it was much more difficult for women to be indepe...

Thousands of years in a mysterious land called The Middle Kingdom, many legends were created. Martial arts was one of them, made famous by its name Ku...

An early short from Gaumont, date and director unknown.

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

Edison and Lumiere footage of the Serpentine Dance, created by Loïe Fuller, is reworked to follow the poetic interpretations of several artists who ex...

Another Worldy opens with "The Lucky Girls" dancing atop a New York City skyscraper to the music of an all-female band. Among the many other dancers w...

A newly discovered film showing Tamara Karsavina dancing Mikhail Fokine’s ‘La Danse du Flambeau’ (‘The Torch Dance’). This performance was filmed in 1...

A choreography of Benvindo Fonseca to 19 songs performed live by the music group Madredeus and the dance group Madredeus of Contemporary Ballet of Lis...

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about stencil co...

A video animation "commercial" on body movement and self awareness. Charming musical score of George Kleinsinger gives a "sing-along" pattern for danc...

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.