Dance Movies

A celebration of dance, music, movement, language, and animation.

A woman and her husband Jackson welcome their baby boy the same day the King of Pop Michael Jackson died. A dance enthusiast, she names her son...

In an old school dance studio on the Hudson River where Merce Cunningham and John Cage lived for years, one gesture is explored in varying speeds:...

In Jacob Sutton’s film “Ascension”, two young dancers soar up from the darkness beneath the stage at Bastille to the sumptuous...

Rosalyn White is a college sophomore that gave up on her dream of dancing after a horrible car accident killed both her parents and twin brother,...

At the crossroads of arts, bodies and images merge to create a world of poetry and dreams.

A lawman's relentless pursuit of his criminal adversary takes an unexpected turn when their showdown reveals a shared passion for country dance....

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".

Aging out of his art form, a contemporary dancer is forced to deal with an unknown future while desperately trying to save a young friend from a life...

A heart-warming family film about one girl's dream of dancing in the lead and realizing the only way to do it, is believing that you can.

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...

Already harassed by the neighborhood bully for entering a hip-hop contest, two young brothers, who have never danced, have only three days to prepare...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion. The...

When Jacques d'Amboise took a group of dancers and members of his teaching staff to China, they worked with acclaimed dancer Dou Dou Huang and more...

Grace, a Dutch-African girl with albinism, feels like an outsider with her white skin and poor eyesight. When she meets Kya, her African identity...

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about,...

"Vlada Goes to London" is a short student film exploring the strong-willed Vlada on her night shift as a pizza delivery girl in her desperate attempt...