Dance Movies

Urban is a short documentary on the importance of dance in shaping the identity of five young adolescent girls. In the Susp3ctz dance crew, they...

A TV executive tries to create a musical special to save his network.

From Norman McLaren to the Grands Ballets Canadiens, to Igor Stravinsky and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vincent Warren has made history....

A woman becomes slowly visible in front of a black space. She points a wand and spells the word “Bonsoir” in colored letters formed from...

Short dance film focusing on the Argentine Tango. The location is a wintery, deserted and neglected park. As they dance, two women dressed in...

Daughter of Mobius shows the struggles of an independent women living in the early 80s - an era when it was much more difficult for women to be...

Walter Gropius saw stage design as an interplay of various disciplines, comparable to architecture, forming an "orchestral unity." From the...

Set in an alternative timeline to the manga and animated TV series, the movie features a classic Cinderella story told through the medium of '80s...

Famous kabuki performer Kikugoro IV performs the Lion Dance, in which a young girl is possessed by the spirit of a lion and transforms into the...

Kevin and Jesse, two reckless teenage criminals and inseparable best friends, spend one final week together in Vancouver before Kevin moves to Spain....

In the 80s, in an aerobic gym, Katarina, an ambitious teacher, obsessively pursues perfection. Between intense choreography and rivalry, she needs to...

A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.....

In Buenos Aires a group of acclaimed dancers create the first Contemporary National Company of Dance under their collective leadership. This is the...

With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with...

Hum lives in a refugee camp near Hamburg. He loves films and finances his visits to the cinema by selling lost properties from cinema visits in the...

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

Karolina Kuras is a Toronto-based ballet and portrait photographer. In this piece, we explore her creative collaboration with Canadian National...

Filmmaker Maia Wechsler follows choreographer Stephen Petronio as he prepares dancers to restage the 1968 production of "RainForest."

This is the first in Lily Baldwin's Paperback Movie Project. Each short film is an interpretation of a novel and explores the fluid relationship...