Dance Movies

A jazzy exercise in pure movement.

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

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

A sensuous, celebrating smell, touch, color, skin, poetry, painting, sex, and home decorating; to the point of decadence. A man, tired of the...

Clara van Gool's graduation film. Still acrobatic movements of two men are watched by a girl, who herself occasionally makes some careful dance...

Referencing the Nazi regime's methodical restriction of jazz through their "10 Rules for Dance Bands," this film demonstrates progressively censored...

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play Clavigo, Roland Petit's ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn between the contradictory...

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...

Yuwol, who is dancing all the time, has been considered to be the main culprit behind the dance virus at his school. The teachers calling for order...

A photographer is murdered just outside a college dance. The body is found by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's being whisked from one...

A married man has an affair with a married woman in this woman's house. When the woman's husband unexpectedly shows up with a bottle of acid, which...

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...

Men Who Dance is a documentary film by Susanne Svantesson about some men, on the island of Gotland in Sweden, who starts to dance. This is a film...

A young woman cannot escape the daily exploits of lustful patrons.

A man has a life-changing encounter with an otherworldly ice cream truck.

Eric Kupers of Dandelion Dancetheater teaches a naturist dance workshop.

Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Exploring the chaotic and unifying synthesis of music, sound, and dance within London's busy and maddening cityscape.

A sensual and insightful film about three elderly dancers from Budapest. Irén, Éva and Ágnes - all between 90 and 100 years old...

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees...