Let’s Get the Rhythm chronicles girls’ handclapping games on inner-city playgrounds, and in remote corners of the world offers homage to the beauty of the beat. Three eight-year-olds from diverse New York neighborhoods charm viewers with their personal insights as they learn, share, and eventually...
Set against the iridescent backdrop of London at night, ‘Primitive’ follows a dancer’s journey from bitter heartbreak and violent anger through to creative self-discovery. Featuring choreography and performances by Dane Hurst, one of the world’s most highly-acclaimed contemporary dancers, stunning cinematography and projection-mapped lighting, ‘Primitive’...
The last man on Earth sits alone in a room as three boys spend a sleep over telling each other scary stories, a cross over occurs between a fictional man's life in solitude and the future of one of the boy's very own reality....
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." - Cicero A short film conceived and choreographed by Loughlan Prior, Memory House features Sir Jon Trimmer and artists of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in a dramatically framed and performed exploration of dance, time and nostalgia....
“Angsters” was originally choreographed as an upbeat display of movement inspired by the anxieties of modern life, where the performers embody concerns of the dancer, including time (or lack thereof), technique, criticism, and voice/perspective. The filmmakers decided to explore these concepts further by setting the...
Here Now With Sally Gross is a documentary about the teaching and performing life of the renowned New York dance artist. An original member of the Judson Church Group, Sally Gross has been making spare, elegant dances that often interact with live music and the...
ABT members Stella Abrera and Thomas Forster perform to “Depuis le jour” from the Gustave Charpentier opera Louise at the window-filled Ailey studios....
More than a legacy project, Ze’eva Cohen Creating A Life In Dance is a model of how an artist can survive in the dance world by carving out an independent path for herself. Primarily narrated by Cohen, the documentary spans 70 years, encompassing her life...
This new documentary film by iconic composer/singer/director/choreographer Meredith Monk includes rare archival footage from performances of her seminal work, Education of the Girlchild, between 1973-2010, and centers around a reunion of the original cast members for a revival of the work at the Joyce Theater...
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt is a Swedish choreographer immersed in Japanese mythology. She is drawn to the haunting legend that serves as the basis for much of Japan’s dance and theater, both classical and contemporary: The Sun Goddess, who hides in a cave, plunging the word...
This is the story of Mia Slavenska, one of the most celebrated ballerinas of her time. It is also a story about historical memory, national identity, and art’s power. In her era, everyone in America who loved dance knew her name. Yet, in spite of...
“El moviment perpetu” (Perpetual Motion) is a documentary on the transmission of gestures and movements from body to body and generation to generation. The film is based on some of the key moments in the history of dance in Catalonia from the beginning of the...
This is the first in a new series Lily conceived as The Paperback Movie Project. Each short film is an interpretation of a novel and explores the fluid relationship between a reader, words and imagination. Episode #1 is a romantic and jarring dream. A JUICE BOX...
It’s not easy being a teenager, specially not seen through the eyes of these three ballet boys - a film about friendship, ambitions, identity and passion. Ballet Boys takes you through disappointment, victories, forging of friendship, first loves, doubt, faith, growing apart from each other and...
Renewal is a reflection on art and environmental action. The film profiles a group of dancers – the Vertigo Dance Company – in their pioneering Eco-Arts village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The film explores Vertigo’s unique, accessible methods of green living. Renewal features captivating scenes...
One world is occupied by some of the most acclaimed dancers in the world, the other by people who often struggle to move at all, those with Parkinson's disease. But In 2012 these two different worlds converged at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn as they began...
