Dance Movies

Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman whose life was defined by her love for dance. Martha Hill...

A genre-bending documentary using dance and physicality to explore themes of youthfulness, fear, regret and aging. The star of the show is New York....

Indira Manikam and her sister took a leap of faith by establishing Tanjai Kamala Indira Dance School (TKI) in Kuala Lumpur. This documentary captures...

Noetic, Faun and Boléro: Three elements, three visions, three journeys through dance. Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's show offers a...

A couple of dancers appear one morning in a High School. It's Monday and they announce to a group of youngsters that they have five days to get up on...

A Victorian couple dancing.

Ge Ningning performs a series of solo dances.

A maelström of shouts, slaps, small dances, kabuki love scenes, tribal singings. They shift from loneliness to togetherness, sensation to dance...

I evoke a dancing woman. A woman? No. A bouncing line with harmonious rhythm. I evoke a luminous projection on veils ! Precise matter! No. Fluid...

After the loss of a lifelong friend, a trio processes their grief through dance.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

Film version of the dance performance of the same name.

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.

The intention of this film was to explore movement flow. Specifically, the consequences of cutting, inserting, and patching an image of a movement...

Seen through the voyeurism of glass pane, this is the story of 1960's coiffed etiquette gone awry. Dancing bodies reveal a meaty subtext as all...

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

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

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,...