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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman who quietly struggled for over 75 years to establish Modern Dance as a legitimate art form. From the early pioneering days of the 1920's to the power struggle over control...
