Modern Dance Movies
- 2023
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...
- 2020
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...
- 1969
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...
- 2001
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
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A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
- 1974
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...
- 2024
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.
- 1981
Den magiska dansaren
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"The Magic Dancer" - A poetic, almost surreal text, that somewhat breathes Lorca. A unique lyrical universe.
- 1960
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...
- 1970
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...
- 2019
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."
- 1959
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...
- 1962
On the Sound
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A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.
- 1963
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...
- 2013
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...
- 2015
Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance
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The mavericks whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th century.
- 2019
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...
- 2022
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...
- 2014
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.
- 1981
Fröken Julie
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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...
- 2018
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...