Movies: Dance

A kaleidoscopic view of Black unity through dance, Jersey Club music and its radical history....

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the group during a ten day workshop in Liverpool....

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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 creating a work to express her delicate state of mind. IT CRIES TOO LOUDLY, is a dance film exploring...

Over 3 studio sessions, a dancer overcomes his self-doubt and regains his self-confidence through this other character pushing him to get out of his comfort zone. His anxiety is represented through the delay of his reflection in the dance studio mirr...

After awaking in an odd, disconcerting surrounding, Jamie must link together a series of projections to uncover what led him there....

This film depicts the struggle of someone who loses direction, because of the many choices before their eyes. He tries to find answers to what he sees in front of him, but he is always pulled by the rope that binds him. The person feels confused, afr...

A couple dances a choreography by Angelin Preljocaj....

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An artist encounters his muse in the surreal realm of his imagination....

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Nerabe unravels through 11 minutes the process of waiting, the ritual of motherhood through a look full of poetic resonances. She starts with a dance made of transitional steps, accomplice of maternal games, victim of fears, dreams, haste and self-ab...

A documentary on the legacy of ballet in Cuba that aired on PBS in Rochester, NY. Filmed on location in Havana, Cuba July – August, 2016. Featuring Laura Alonso, the history of the National Ballet of Cuba, and interviews with staff and dancers atten...

A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda....

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The fast and furious comedy stylings of Alfred and Seymour, the multi-talented duo behind BlackStreetBoyz....

A maelström of shouts, slaps, small dances, kabuki love scenes, tribal singings. They shift from loneliness to togetherness, sensation to dance soli, grotesque to subtle movements, from burning to shining, from shedding to getting rebirth. Gerro, Min...

In its heyday, Changa Tuki, aka Raptor House, attracted thousands of young people to afternoon parties called "matinees", from those parties a controversial subculture grew, one that still echoes to this day. This is the story as told by its protagon...