Dance Movies

Dance, friendship, group, beatbox, movement, hiphop, freestyle, cypher.

Seven minutes in length, the film features two black male hikers — one ascending a mountain, another descending — who encounter each...

Daughter of Mobius shows the struggles of an independent women living in the early 80s - an era when it was much more difficult for women to be...

Home movie from Man Ray featuring dancer Jenny gyrating in black and white.

This experimental dance film employs a bastardized version of the 1930s three strip Technicolor process. Shot entirely on black and white film...

“By the Leanders. The dress of one consists of a pair of wings and a bow and arrow; the other represents a fairy. Bathers in all stages of...

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".

This athletically vibrant and sensual experience explores love across a lifetime. Using dance to inhabit a common mortal story of love born, lived,...

The movements of the water unite with those of the dance, moving the filmmaker to finally recognize himself in it.

A sensual and insightful film about three elderly dancers from Budapest. Irén, Éva and Ágnes - all between 90 and 100 years old...

Animation by Manabu Himeda.

When Jacques d'Amboise took a group of dancers and members of his teaching staff to China, they worked with acclaimed dancer Dou Dou Huang and more...

Bubble is a short film performed by Zeena Parkins and the Plastic Girls, Eleanor Hullihan and Erin Cornell in a public park in Brooklyn, NY.

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...

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...

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

A man waits. He longs for and mourns for, his increasingly disconnected and disparate love for a person. Goodbye to Love is an epilogue of a romance,...

In this visual poem set in contemporary Mexico, two lovers share an afternoon of passion as an ancient deity from their dreams performs an orgiastic...

A love that transports through time and place. Inspired by iconic NYC love scenes from the 1970's, and an ode to Maya Deren's MESHES OF THE...