Movies: Contemporary dance

A glimpse into the world and methodology of dancer Martha Graham....

The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War, with documentary segments by Adam Curtis....

A videodance short-film of the avant-garde / experimental dance group of the same name based on the book "Húmus" (released in 1917) by Raul Brandão....

A pioneer in Taiwan’s contemporary dance scene, Lo Man-fei receives a beautiful tribute from director En Chen, a decade after her passing. Three years in the making, Manfei traces the life and work of the dance legend, including her early days at the...

In 2007 the Sydney Dance Company appointed 29-year-old choreographer Tanja Liedtke as their first new artistic director in 30 years. However before she could take up the position, she was struck and killed by a truck in the middle of the night. Admir...

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Science-fiction dance film that looks into togetherness and loneliness. Covid-19 and the measurements taken because of it have changed our way of being together into a more digital, online and always connected manner....

Tak Lurus, which means “not straight” in Bahasa Melayu, brings about the marriage between technology and the arts. The dance short film uses light refraction technology to create a medium expressing the situations we undergo and emotions we feel, as ...

A woman battles against the constraints of a controlling patriarchal figure symbolised by a haunting mask. As she strives for freedom and dances to her own rhythm, the gripping visuals unfold a poignant tale of struggle and the inescapable influence ...

A woman embarks on a journey through three pivotal stages, meditating on the cyclical nature of life, where the uncontrollable power of the sea reflects the essential purity of the world....

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Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers....

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An international online digital dance collaboration....