Dance Movies

Palucca follows the legendary Dresden dancer and dance teacher Gret Palucca (1902–1993) as she introduces her students to dance as an art form....

Set to a score by Mauricio Pauly (The Threshing Floor), multiple microphones, choreographic sequences, scores, and projected images, we are enveloped...

Four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy decide to take part in a cultural project and investigate the stories of some refugees from Pakistan living...

Focuses on the dancer, choreographer, and composer Ernest Berk (1909-1993), who at the time the film was made was 81 years old. Using choreography...

A short film about the first Bomba Ancestral returning to the ocean at sunset. Organized by Sheila Osorio and Samuel Lind in Loíza, Puerto...

A group of near-naked women dance and leap about on a beach.

After moving to Bucharest, Sânziana reflects on how this change has affected her perception of herself and her body.

Inspired by Dartmoor’s corpse roads, this short gothic Super 8 film recounts the tale of two men’s arduous trek to deliver a coffin to...

Exploring the roles we perform to protect ourselves, short dance film Cayendo observes the complexities of group dynamics, with human connection as a...

A young boy accidentally squeezes his pet bird to death. At sunset the bird resurrects itself and confronts the boy with his actions.

A high-school folk dancing group heads to Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival, an event that takes place every five years and is part of the...

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the...

A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.

Based on the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, a choreographic film by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Gorgeous dancing – and...

Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then...

The Sanjoan folklore groups of Vila do Conde – Rancho do Monte and Rancho da Praça – tell their stories, traditions and, above...

Two dancers, once lovers, now go about their separate lives. Giovanni can't help reliving his first love via a collection of home videos. Louise, now...