Dance Movies

The complexity of friendship through a platonic bond that runs deep enough to blur love, dependence, and identity. Moving between light and shadow,...

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

A blond and a raven-haired beauty move with verve and style through a changing landscape. The fabric of their dresses flows and floats, adding to...

For two hundred years, the Shakers have been America's most successful utopian society. While seeking harmony, order and perfection in every aspect...

A man spends the day frolicking. What is there not to be happy about?

Three entirely distinct stories: a man who, since adolescence, has been forced to obey only one man and condemned to serve as a drug mule for...

A short dance film by Herschell Gordon Lewis.

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the...

A story told with gestures and glances. The tightness of a car is a perfect space for fantasy. Here two lovers' separate fantasies, “secret...

Pre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish, this model opera depicts the history and evolution of the Communist Party of China under Mao...

In 1964, the Joffrey Ballet company splits over a struggle for artistic control and the HARKNESS BALLET is born, revolutionizing the way dance is...

This is the first in Lily Baldwin's Paperback Movie Project. Each short film is an interpretation of a novel and explores the fluid relationship...

In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety...

A woman walks, loves, eats and washes herself, dances. It all takes place in a bedroom. At times flashbacks, or visualizations of previous or...

A couple dances a choreography by Angelin Preljocaj.

Live from the Bolshoi Theatre, this 1978 remake of the two-act classical Christmas ballet blends Tchaikovsky's beloved melodies with superb dancing....

Habana Shakes takes us on a rhythm-filled odyssey spanning ten vibrant days in Havana, a pulsating island city teetering on the edge of...