Dance Movies

Three completely different stories are told through dance.

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.

Old woman looks outside her apartment window and sees her life passing, or dancing, in front of her eyes.

A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project.

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical...

Documentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voice. A work that travels to the fundamental...

A dance group rehearses for their latest performance Inabitáveis about black homosexuality. While the choreographer conducts research and...

He's looking for a way out of the city. But his only escape is through a woman looking for revenge.

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this...

A Victorian couple dancing.

Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself.

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...

Four Montreal dancer-choreographers facing the challenge of aging. Erin Flynn, José Navas, Louise Bédard and Paul-André Fortier...

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed...

An experimental VHS dance film

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious...

Gopan is living with his 6 year old son Ashok. His neighbor Celin falls in love with him. But he reveals that Ashok's mom is alive and he narrates...

The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would...

Rainer's first film, Hand Film, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and...