Dance
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Ballets Russes
Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzling and entrancing ode to the revolutionary 20th-century dance troupes that performed under the Ballets Russes banner. BALLETS RUSSES maps the Diaghilev-era beginnings in...Watch Movie
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Fonteyn and Nureyev
Peter Batty's famous film covers the most sensational story in Ballet which is stranger than fiction (an establishment English ballerina's unlikely teaming with a young Russian defector, half her age, to become the most glamorous ballet coupling of the glamorous sixties and...Watch Movie
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A Study in Choreography for Camera
"If I did not live in a time when film was accessible to me as a medium, I would have been a dancer, perhaps, or a singer," the filmmaker Maya Deren once said. "But this is a much more marvelous dance. In film, I can make the world dance!" After college, Deren landed her first...Watch Movie
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The Prodigy
Olga Smirnova's talent and drive are taking her to new heights in the ultra-competitive arena of world-class ballet at the Bolshoi in Moscow. This film shows what that extreme sacrifice looks like behind the curtain, through images and the words of Olga and her demanding, but sensitive coach, who...Watch Movie
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Ballet Boys
BILLY ELLIOT meets FIRST POSITION in BALLET BOYS, a documentary that follows, over four years, the struggles, set-backs and accomplishments of three friends and hopeful future dance stars: Lukas, Syvert, and Torgeir. The boys sacrifice a normal high school experience (including parties and...Watch Movie
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Satan's Angel
Angel Walker is a legend in the world of burlesque who travels the globe with her partner Vic entertaining her legions of devoted fans. This riveting documentary explores Angel and Vic's private and public life, and enlists a collection of today's hottest burlesque stars sharing their insight on...Watch Movie
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Ballerina
In the grand tradition of the Ballets Russes comes Bertrand Normand's portrait of five Russian ballerinas from the Mariinski Theatre, formerly known as the Kirov. Behind any great ballerina lies the discipline and rigour that comes from decades of training and practice; and Russia's pre-eminent...Watch Movie
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Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
This unsentimental portrait of the complex and charismatic "Mother of Modern Dance" traces the life and artistic development of San Francisco-born Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). Duncan raised dance from mere vaudeville entertainment to a legitimate art form, laying the foundation...Watch Movie
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Place
PLACE is a sensational dance film, especially created for world-famous dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna by an outstanding team of international artists. Staged by Mats Ek, considered to be one of the world's best choreographers, and directed by Grammy, MTV and Cannes Grand Prix...Watch Movie
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Kumu Hula
A film about the art of the hula explores Hawaiian dance traditions going back to 500AD when Polynesians first arrived in the islands. Those traditions have been passed along from generation to generation by kahuna (priests and sages) and kumu hula (master teachers). In this film, shot at exotic...Watch Movie
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Anma
ANMA, defined in the film as "the art of releasing of the mind and body," is avant-garde film pioneer Takahiko Iimura's film of an early performance of butoh by one of its originators, Tatsumi Hijikata. In the spirit of butoh's inherent formal mutability, Iimura did not simply film the...Watch Movie
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Etoiles
ETOILES celebrates the legacy of the famed Paris Opera Ballet by weaving together rehearsals and tour snapshots of classical ballets as well as contemporary works. Celebrated filmmaker Nils Tavernier delves into the psychology of dance by talking candidly with some of the biggest stars in dance...Watch Movie
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Rose Color Dance
A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an intruder breaks up the whole...Watch Movie
