When a young man takes a break on a bench on the pier, an unexpected visitor turns his break into a full-out musical number. An unexpected, fun, and funny tap dance ensues. Performed by Geoffrey Goldberg and Danny Gardner...
A boy walks through school seeing visions of his classmates dancing in hallways, staircases, and in restrooms. He starts to doubt what is real, but when the girl he likes invites him to dance, he too starts to move. The film was made in collaboration with...
Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb...
Set in the competitive world of cheerleading, AMERICAN CHEERLEADER follows the journey of two high school teams vying for the coveted National High School Cheerleading Championship. Overcoming challenges through discipline, dedication and teamwork, twelve girls from New Jersey and twelve girls from Kentucky redefine what...
A woman and a man share a suspended moment of intimacy sitting before a vast ocean. Here they muse on the enigmatic immensity of their own destiny, taking us into an ethereal fantasy that is compelled by ardent love, outside of time and the constraints...
After their sensational Dance Scene "Chant Et Fugue" The Lombard Twins are back with a new powerful piece "ESCUALO". Another Dance Scene from the Piazzolla Suite....
Two Memphis jookers and two ballet dancers fuse their distinct dance styles to a soundtrack that mixes hip-hop beats and cello at a famous Memphis juke joint....
“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...
"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....
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....
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’...
An experimental dance film by filmmaker Shona Masarin and choreographer/performer Cori Olinghouse, "Ghost line" brings together the absurdist impulses of Dada and Surrealism with the kinetics of vaudeville, eccentric dance, and silent film to ask: how do we capture and reimagine—in a parlous age of...
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...
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...
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 1, 3:30p This amusing film explores one woman's battle against rigid forms. Created for Dances Made to Order....
Buy Tickets: Sunday February 2, 6:00p From the moment of his dramatic leap to freedom at Paris' Bourget Airport in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev was embraced as a ballet idol. On the 20th anniversary of his death, Fabrice Herrault, a notable New York ballet teacher and film...
Buy Tickets: Sunday February 2, 8:00p GISELLE is acclaimed director Toa Fraser's interpretation of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of Giselle. The classic story has been reinterpreted to include both the on stage performance of the ballet, and an off-stage romance that tells of two...
Buy Tickets: Sunday February 2, 1:15p The Fabulous Ice Age chronicles the era of the great American touring ice shows revealing how, with their dazzling production numbers and variety acts, they dominated family entertainment for decades. It also depicts one skater’s quest to keep this history...
