Movies: Dance

A grief-stricken therapist is determined to help a suicidal teen but to help him, she must face her own pain and let go of her guilt. With help from God, a pastor and a dance instructor, the two realize they just might have a second chance....

Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of "Singin' in the Rain". The short documentary includes Donald O'Connor, who played the comical "Cosmo Brown", Stanley Donen, one half of the directors next to Gene Kelly, and Kathleen Freeman, w...

Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently, 20 hours of footage was shot that covered the whole fest and the film hardly presents us a twentieth of that. A native walking into the film in between m...

Light Heavy Light follows Melissa JJ Moore as she uses dance as her outlet for emotional expression. Through her annual remount charity show, which goes by the same name, Light Heavy Light, she expresses grief compellingly, leaving the audience with ...

Four Montreal dancer-choreographers facing the challenge of aging. Erin Flynn, José Navas, Louise Bédard and Paul-André Fortier talk about how they deal with their changing bodies and the demands of the artistic world. As they answer the question "As...

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A modern dancer must learn to juggle love, family, and her career while she auditions for a prestigious foreign dance company....

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only ...

At the heart of their deteriorating intimate relationship, a dancer seeks to break free from the grip of his unfaithful choreographer....

Two policemen dance the waltz together in an empty grand ballroom....

Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind....

A Tamil from Réunion invites us to a celebration in which the men of the community walk on fire....

During an interview, Tadashi, a young Spanish-Japanese actor who plays female characters in a theatrical practice similar to kabuki, will return to the past to relive his most intimate memories....

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest....

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In Jacob Sutton’s film “Ascension”, two young dancers soar up from the darkness beneath the stage at Bastille to the sumptuous Grand Foyer and eventually to the rooftop of the Palais Garnier, where they experience moments of heavenly, dreamlike lumin...

ITU is a dark and surreal dance short film. Inspiration and new ideas fill the void of the mundane life and something new springs to life through the art of movement....

An actor and his protege lock themselves away from the world while he rehearses for a part in an upcoming feature....

In this spin-off from his original plan for Relativity (1966), Emshwiller continued with his desire to penetrate “space in a kind of flying camera, a dream of flying, a kind of sensual, sexual imagery where you were constantly going into an unknown s...

A tea girl's last day at work before she becomes a typist. A search for recognition - featuring a dancing turtle....