Dance Movies

Home movie from Man Ray featuring dancer Jenny gyrating in black and white.

Liveset of DJ Coone at Sunrise Festival 2013

"Looking for men and women aged over 65" was the small ad in a local newspaper in Wuppertal, through which the choreographer Pina Bausch sought...

A young woman stumbles upon a seemingly empty estate. Hesitantly she enters and wanders its chilling insides: a Pandora's Box that entices and haunts...

This delightful ballet tells the story of Dr Coppelius, an eccentric toymaker, who attempts to bring life to his beautiful doll Coppélia. He...

Rainer's first film, Hand Film, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and...

A light grey room. A slender woman of 50 and a 12 year old boy. Joined together like the links of a chain. Changing positions at a constant rate. One...

An animated short film by Alexei Petrov.

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely...

This is a short, simple ballet performance. Colors are used here, but the print is quite badly damaged.

This Danish film shows us a young woman doing a dance, which translates to tarantula. According to the brief bio over at the Europa Film Treasures...

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out...

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

A joyful Pas de Deux, performed by Clara Rasmussen and Margrethe Andersen. Clara Rasmussen/Wieth/Pontoppidan (1883-1975) was to become one of the...

A Portrait of Giselle is a documentary film featuring Patricia McBride and Anton Dolin along with famous ballerinas who danced the role of Giselle in...