Dance Movies

"Dabke Time" explores the background of the Dabke dance and specifically the Lebanese Dabke. Flimmaker Roshdi Alkadri interviews several subjects acro...

This is a short, simple ballet performance. Colors are used here, but the print is quite badly damaged.

Animation by Manabu Himeda.

A projection on 16mm film.

From the humble beginnings of a small African village to the dazzling heights of Cirque du Soleil, this is the story of a man who defied gravity and d...

In Kumasi, five lifelong friends known as “the Aunties” gather for a day of shared rituals shaped by decades of sisterhood. Through moments of dance,...

Animation and music by Manabu Himeda.

Original film material from the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer.

In the early summer of 1980, eleven-year-old Hanna and the rest of her childhood band aim to bring criminals to justice when a threat to destroy the l...

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

Animation by Manabu Himeda.

Lola's Rainbow is a film about the mundanity of life. It's about feeling trapped in the everyday cycle of repetition. The rainbow is symbolic for many...

Tonight I danced with your ashes for the last time and killed you again, but this time for myself. I hid your ashes in a black glass until the day I...

Through animation and dance, Twine explores what it means to dream and create beauty and magic from within. Directed by Ana Contreras and Keely Song,...

A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography,...

Actors from Warsaw's garden theatres dance a traditional Polish dance, cracovienne.