Modern Dance Movies

  • 2023
    Moving Together

    Moving Together

    Moving Together

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    Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate...

    Moving Together
  • 2020
    Hunger

    Hunger

    Hunger

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    A professional dancer struggles with his cravings for human flesh until his 'hambre', or hunger, becomes all encompassing. Accepting his status as an...

    Hunger
  • 1969
    Salomé

    Salomé

    Salomé

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    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...

    Salomé
  • 2001
    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

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    A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

    Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
  • 1974
    Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions

    Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions

    Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions

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    Presents selections from the major works of choreographer Alvin Ailey as performed by his City Center Dance Theater to background music ranging from...

    Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions
  • 2024
    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    The Kiss

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    A contemporary dance film by choreographer Talia Miharu inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting, "The Kiss", starring Kaben Benavides and Gabriel Tolmer.

    The Kiss
  • 1981
    Den magiska dansaren

    Den magiska dansaren

    Den magiska dansaren

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    "The Magic Dancer" - A poetic, almost surreal text, that somewhat breathes Lorca. A unique lyrical universe.

    Den magiska dansaren
  • 1960
    The Light Fantastic

    The Light Fantastic

    The Light Fantastic

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    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...

    The Light Fantastic
  • 1970
    It Cries Too Loudly

    It Cries Too Loudly

    It Cries Too Loudly

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    Devastated and powerless as she watched the 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath from afar, Lebanese American choreographer Dolly Sfeir set about...

    It Cries Too Loudly
  • 2019
    If the Dancer Dances

    If the Dancer Dances

    If the Dancer Dances

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    Filmmaker Maia Wechsler follows choreographer Stephen Petronio as he prepares dancers to restage the 1968 production of "RainForest."

    If the Dancer Dances
  • 1959
    Fröken Julie

    Fröken Julie

    Fröken Julie

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    A well-composed psychological dance drama of a completely different kind from the usual romantic and sometimes superficial ballets. And an intrusive...

    Fröken Julie
  • 1962
    On the Sound

    On the Sound

    On the Sound

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    A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.

    On the Sound
  • 1963
    Tribute to Lester Horton

    Tribute to Lester Horton

    Tribute to Lester Horton

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    A dance performance salute to choreographer-dancer Lester Horton with Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade and James Truitte, all former members of his...

    Tribute to Lester Horton
  • 2013
    Brief Candle

    Brief Candle

    Brief Candle

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    The sequel to "Painted" puts Andrew Wyeth’s ’Christina’s World’ into motion, and explores how bio-electricity galvanizes into...

    Brief Candle
  • 2015
    Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance

    Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance

    Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance

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    The mavericks whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th century.

    Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance
  • 2019
    Text Messages from the Universe

    Text Messages from the Universe

    Text Messages from the Universe

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    A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think...

    Text Messages from the Universe
  • 2022
    Free Noir Papillon

    Free Noir Papillon

    Free Noir Papillon

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    A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the...

    Free Noir Papillon
  • 2014
    Step Will Pilgrim

    Step Will Pilgrim

    Step Will Pilgrim

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    Somewhere between a computer program, a troubadour romance, the Pietà and a Roman mystery cult - a boy and girl meet.

    Step Will Pilgrim
  • 1981
    Fröken Julie

    Fröken Julie

    Fröken Julie

    01981HD

    Birgit Cullberg's 1950 dance adaptation of Miss Julie was the breakthrough for modern dance in Sweden. 30 years later one of her sons plays the role...

    Fröken Julie
  • 2018
    Sand

    Sand

    Sand

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    The grandmother figure in the story is an “artistic speaker” who performs in town but seems enigmatic to her own granddaughter. Over the...

    Sand