Dancing Movies

In Afghanistan, "batchas" are young male prostitutes who live under the protection of a master in a house where they are trained to dance dressed as...

Comprising new and archival footage, this film observes rituals performed by the South Asian, African, and Caribbean diaspora in Britain,...

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a...

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they...

A woman discovers the unexpected in her basement when she investigates why her water has run dry.

In 1963 and 1964, Andy Warhol captured dancer-choreographers Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, and Freddy Herko, and Village Voice dance critic Jill...

Line dancing is fast becoming a popular activity among senior citizens. This presents line dancing from an instructional, yet entertaining...

Andrea and Krisztina Marics are 28-year-old identical twins with a teaching degree that have lived together since birth. They work together at a...

A complex choreography of re-animated miniature soldiers moving to the exquisitely synchronised command of a master manipulator. Toy soldiers...

Two dancers in an animated short, drawn by hand. Beautifully animated in 1250 drawings.

The centerpiece of A. Grikevicius's film is Tomas Petreikis, the chief engineer of the machine factory in Kaunas F. Dzeržinskis. Rather than...

A man wearing a colorful hat dances on a small island. All is well until the Grim Reaper appears in a small boat, beckoning the dancer to come with...

On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen-year-old boy who moved her immensely with...

Soldiers dancing.

Michele Bernardi has created a portrait of the dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940-2015), inspired by various film and video clips of...

A joyous and sexual ode to sorority.

TV movie about dance rites in the Philippines