Chainreaction is a collision of dance, animation and sound that juxtaposes the movements of live performers with the motion of animated projections, in a continuous interactive evolution of action reaction....
A collaboration between dancer Vrinda Sheth and filmmaker Rasa Acharya, this short dance film explores the dancer's reaction to her imagined/real critics. The film questions a performer's public versus private persona, as well as conventions of costume and dress. It features original choreography in the...
A short hybrid experimental video piece that integrates dance movement and choreography of space within the structure of narrative film. The film portrays immigration as a dehumanizing process executed by an indifferent bureaucratic machine. It follows a young immigrant, a woman, awaiting her turn to see...
Klasse tracks back to the winter of 1938 in Jewish Hamburg, Germany at the height of WWII in an old school classroom kept just as it was during the war. The chairs, the desks, the chalkboards and the solid walls are reminders of the haunting...
A kind and charming woman awakens to a cold and dangerous dystopia, and then must battle to survive and find her lost love. In the process, she discovers that the wreckage surrounding her is not destruction at all, but a cycle in perpetual transformation. RUN, a...
A story of appropriation, glamour and madness Documentary about Félix Fernández García, flamenco dancer from Seville hired by Diaghilev in 1917 to teach and dance flamenco for the Ballets Russes in the process of creation of The Three-Cornered Hat ballet in collaboration with choreographer Lèonide Massine,...
AROVA explores the passion and dedication of Dame Sonia Arova, a Bulgarian Ballerina, who influenced the dance world a great deal. Among her many dance partners, she is known for partnering with Rudolf Nureyev, Erik Bruhn, and Thor Sutowski. Her training during WWII shaped how she...
What is life like for a dancer when they can no longer dance? Inspired by Merrill Ashley’s departure from the New York City Ballet a an acclaimed principal dancer, this documentary captures the poignancy of this life turning point. After a struggle to find her...
Born in the heart of the Amazon, trained in Rio de Janeiro, Boca Raton and Paris, Marcelo Gomes is one of the most sought-after male ballet dancers today. A Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre in New York City, Marcelo also performs with the world's...
"It’s showtime, folks!" That’s the refrain of anxiety-ridden and unhealthfully driven choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) at the center of Fosse’s semi-autobiographical musical extravaganza, also featuring star turns by Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, and Jessica Lange. Scheider is never less than captivating in his portrayal...
This radical vision from choreographer/director Blanca Li involves eight dancers whose extraordinary flexibility and expressivity are demonstrated as they explore the relationship between humans and machines. They are aided by mechanized instruments shaped like musical notes (created by Maywa Denki, a Japanese artist group), and...
World-renowned Czech choreographer Jiri Kylian, always a reluctant subject, finally agreed to participate in this film, the only record of his personal history and artistic life. Narrated by Kylian, it covers his school days in Prague, as well as his apprenticeship in London and Stuttgart,...
An intimate look at the historical and cultural roots of the Italian and American kinships with grand opera, featuring profiles of numerous notable figures, from renowned tenor Roberto Alagna to legendary Amato Opera Theatre founder Tony Amato. With the generous support from the Cultural Services...
This engaging documentary chronicles Benjamin Millepied (choreographer of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan), the newly appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet and founder of L.A. Dance Project, as a globe-trotting ambassador for dance: in rehearsal with his company in L.A., hanging out with Lil Buck,...
Butterfly is a poetic dance film following a girl's obsession with a butterfly. Her obsession and child-like innocence is lost as she is haunted by her previous actions....
This engaging, richly textured drama follows a renowned principal dancer whose injury forces her out of her company and uncomfortably into the role of motherhood. She realizes that her identity depends on dance and she struggles to return with the help of another former company...
TAGGED features graffiti painted dancers who create a moving image on city streets and transform spaces viewed as sacred, private, or useless into a useful urban theater. It addresses how artists claim public and private space as a creative canvas and encourages communities to see...
This non-narrative video is a dance of puppet-like figures, and mesmerizing forms, accompanied by percussive rhythms. It is a magical spectacle portraying a mesmerizing world in which figures flow and drip in a universe of their own as they proceed to a greater void. The...
Through her entire life, Rose has followed her passion for dance by using it as a singular method of communication essential to connect with her surroundings....
"Children and Art" is one of seven short dance movies by Richard Daniels contained in the App Dancing Sondheim, Volume 4 from Dances for an iPhone. Dance artist Carmen de Lavallade dances Richard Daniels's choreography to Stephen Sondheim's song from his musical "Sunday in the...
"Every Day a Little Death" is one of seven short dance movies by Richard Daniels contained in the App Dancing Sondheim, Volume 4 from Dances for an iPhone. Writer, critic, dancer Deborah Jowitt dances in choreography by Richard Daniels, to lyrics of the song from...
Set in Iran, this powerful and unbelievable true story follows the brave ambition of Afshin Ghaffarian. During the volatile climate of the 2009 presidential election, where many cultural freedoms were threatened, Afshin and some friends (including Elaheh played by Freida Pinto) risk their lives and...
A recounting of violent event through the integration of narrative film and dance: A female laundry worker desperately attempts to abort the fruit of a violent encounter. When the consequences of her action are reveled, the memories she has repressed re-emerge....
Sucked into a choreographic time warp, conceptual hip-hop dancers intersect, collide and share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity. By the film’s end, viewers slowly realize things are not as they seem...
Sifting through photos and memories, a woman revisits her past saying good-bye to what was, while contemplating what will be....
The sound of a lone flutist practicing Debussy’s Syrinx heard while walking through a forest in 1948, inspired the American choreographer Jean Erdman to create Hamadryad, a vision of a passionate wood nymph. In this dance fantasy directors, Nancy Allison and Paul Allman follow Bessie...
Well Contested Sites is a 13- minute dance/theater film that explores the issue of mass incarceration and the complexity of experiences faced by those who are in prison. The films cast is comprised of Bay Area performing artists, some of who were previously incarcerated. The...
