Modern Dance Movies
- 1946
Night and Day
Night and Day5.71946HD
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee...
- 2016
Center Stage: On Pointe
Center Stage: On Pointe6.52016HD
Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers...
- 2011
Pina
Pina7.42011HD
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the...
- 2017
Bobbi Jene
Bobbi Jene5.82017HD
A love story, portraying the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition. It is a film about a woman's fight for independence, a woman trying to...
- 2019
Mari
Mari5.92019HD
Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she...
- 1957
A Dancer's World
A Dancer's World61957HD
A glimpse into the world and methodology of dancer Martha Graham.
- 1958
The Very Eye of Night
The Very Eye of Night5.91958HD
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...
- 2021
Gallant Indies
Gallant Indies7.42021HD
Stéphane Lissner, director of the Paris Opera, entrusts the staging of the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes to the visual artist Clément...
- 2019
If the Dancer Dances
If the Dancer Dances02019HD
Filmmaker Maia Wechsler follows choreographer Stephen Petronio as he prepares dancers to restage the 1968 production of "RainForest."
- 2001
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance02001HD
A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
- 2015
Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance
Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance72015HD
The mavericks whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th century.
- 1993
Genius on the Wrong Coast
Genius on the Wrong Coast01993HD
Portrait of Lester Horton, a Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer and teacher who trained many world-reknowned dancers and built the first...
- 1969
Salomé
Salomé01969HD
Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the...
- 1980
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers01980HD
Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of...
- 1960
The Light Fantastic
The Light Fantastic31960HD
While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more...
- 1974
Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions
Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions01974HD
Presents selections from the major works of choreographer Alvin Ailey as performed by his City Center Dance Theater to background music ranging from...
- 2020
Hunger
Hunger22020HD
A professional dancer struggles with his cravings for human flesh until his 'hambre', or hunger, becomes all encompassing. Accepting his status as an...
- 1958
Appalachian Spring
Appalachian Spring4.91958HD
A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.
- 1994
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed5.71994HD
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
- 1970
We are a conversation
We are a conversation91970HD
We are a conversation is a 2014 documentary directed by Alexis karpouzos and Spyros rasidakis and written by Alexis karpouzos exploring the unity...