Dance Movies

A heart-warming family film about one girl's dream of dancing in the lead and realizing the only way to do it, is believing that you can.

People dance during a performance of the Orchestra "The Afrokán". The film was banned, at the beginning of the Cuban revolution, for depicting...

A woman's journey to combatting her fear of intimacy - short film by Willow Bidwell.

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

The film considers what it means to be free to move, not as in leave or flee, but to move. It explores the ability of the environments we live in...

A non-binary South Asian teenager uses bharatanatyam dance to explore their gender identity.

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Vija Vetra, a world-renowned Latvian dancer, choreographer and teacher. At the age of 84, Vetra...

A dancer struggles with their self image, but continues to perform.

BLACK BALLERINA tells the story of several black women from different generations who fell in love with ballet. Six decades ago, while pursuing their...

Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off...

A Tamil from Réunion invites us to a celebration in which the men of the community walk on fire.

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR. In color, with narration.

This song-and-dance musical follows the journey of an island girl with a natural gift for dancing as she navigates through life in the city to follow...

Dance film inspired by the Tarantella; a dance named after the tarantula. Anyone bitten by this spiders is captivated by a biting pain and an...

Janet Adler's moving 1970 short documentary about dance therapy illustrates a therapeutic approach using body and movements. The most powerful...

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...

Eight Early Era dancers inspect the systems by which we abide, and the sameness required of average people to operate within those systems. To the...