2019 Films Overview
SFDFF’s 2019 film selections highlight the compelling power of dance on film. From fascinating documentaries to crowd-pleasing shorts, the films are organized into curated programs that offer something for everyone. Visit the programs page for dates and times.
Short film from Infinite Flow, a nonprofit and professional dance company based in Los Angeles with a mission to make dance accessible to all and to use dance as vehicle …
Read More#InfiniteInclusion
The traditional mourning dance has not been performed for nearly 50 years until Ali, a Kurdish dance master, decides to perform it for his friend who lost his life in …
Read MoreA Dance for Death
Three dancers enact the best photographs of brilliant Chinese photographer Ren Hang, who was well known for his shocking photographs bordering on taboo. Ren Hang killed himself in 2017, at …
Read MoreA Dance for Ren Hang
The struggle of a father who works as a tiler. He is fighting to overcome his life difficulties in order to protect the most precious thing to him, his family …
Read MoreA N D R E A S
ABOUT FACE is the first of a 3-part short film series that puts a different spin on the school to prison pipeline and the role of fathers of black and …
Read MoreAbout Face
In Afterimage for Tomorrow, director Singing CHEN collaborates with choreographer Shou-Yi CHOU to perform the ineffable in memories. This metafiction film set in a futuristic world where memories can be …
Read MoreAfterimage for Tomorrow
The iconic ballet, reimagined. The classic story of love, betrayal and redemption has been reimagined in this stunning new version, with sets and costumes by Academy-Award winning designer Tim Yip …
Read MoreAkram Khan’s Giselle
The Queens roses have been painted red! After she finds the culprit, The Queen battle’s Alice in Struttersland. Impressed by Alice’s movement, The Queen invites Alice in a duet of …
Read MoreAlice In Struttersland
AXIS – anatomy of space – created by choreographer, film-maker and New Zealand Arts Laureate Daniel Belton. AXIS is a collaboration between Good Company Arts and renowned artists Joyce Beetuan …
Read MoreAXIS (Water Planet)
Ballet Break asks three SF Ballet dancers to trade in their pointe shoes for sneakers, and the stage for something sweet, simple, and rife with nostalgia: a good old-fashioned playground …
Read MoreBallet Break
Guided by the spirit of creative partnership and inspired by the experience of maternity as a complex journey in a woman’s mind, body and life, the film Before You Had …
Read MoreBefore You Had A Name
Taking inspiration from a science fiction novel from 1969 by Michael Moorcock, the story is about a modern version of the first human being, who appears on earth as an …
Read MoreBehold The Man
Betroffenheit is a riveting, tender-hearted exploration of loss, isolation and survival in the aftermath of a life-altering tragedy. This dance-theatre hybrid has been awarded “best dance show of the 21st …
Read MoreBetroffenheit
Filmed on location on Cape Cod, between silences is a dance film based on Ali Kenner Brodsky’s solo “the most depressing piece.” Together with filmmaker Rich Ferri, Kenner Brodsky transforms …
Read Morebetween silences
I came to think about the existence of dust that can not be seen in space. Questions and compassion about forgetting us are the purpose of making this film. The …
Read MoreBlue Breath
The daily struggles of our lives weigh us down and drains away our energy. Balancing our passions, financial priorities, family, friends, mental and physical health becomes a dangerous tight rope …
Read MoreBone + Tissue
Clémentine is a scream from beyond the viscera between mineral, beast and man, an unusual encounter with matter, our shadows and light merging into one, crossing through sequins and mud …
Read MoreClémentine
Transfixed by racial, political, and socioeconomic tensions saturating the news, movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, enveloped by the art of Alexa Meade, switch off the TV and release …
Read MoreColor of Reality
Singer/songwriter Patrick Haggerty is credited for writing America’s first gay country music album, Lavender Country. Released in 1973, this album was originally a bootleg, community sponsored project for gay liberationists …
Read MoreCome Out to Lavender Country
Another life exists behind closed doors. A life of sexuality, meditation, heart, and privacy. Jaime Castilla strips away his exterior shell to reveal an intimate look at what home means …
Read MoreComing Home
In 2016, as part of the National Park Centennial, and directed by Amelia Rudolph, the dancers and technical team of Bandaloop, shot Coyote Waltz in Yosemite park. Dancing on mountain …
Read MoreCoyote Waltz
SFDFF presents a special collaboration with the Chinese Dancers Association of Beijing to showcase films from its Young Artist Platform, a program curating young Chinese creators. Intelligently crafted short pieces …
Read MoreDance Films from China
Dance, Dance, Evolution is a short documentary film exploring transgender people’s relationship to dance. Specifically, the film looks at how shifting ones gender might cause shifts in how one dances, …
Read MoreDance, Dance, Evolution
The documentary film Dancing on Icebergs charts the two-year-long making of the short film Antarctica: The First Dance created by Kiwi choreographer Corey Baker, and Royal New Zealand Ballet star …
Read MoreDancing on Icebergs
In artful-surreal visual worlds we are a part of the rise, the development and the fail of 4 characters at their way to a personality. Everything starts by asking about …
Read MoreDialectic Diary
“Disregarded” is a short film about the experience of not being seen and the messy feelings around being invisible. Choreographed by Jodi Lomask of Capacitor, and performed by Carolina Czechowska …
Read MoreDisregarded
Family Portrait – Trailer from Jingqiu Guan on Vimeo …
Read MoreFamily Portrait
Four contemporary choreographers come together for a programme that leads the Opera’s dancers to a new form of modernity where bodies vibrate with intensity. To open the evening, James Thierrée …
Read MoreFour Choreographers of our Time at the P…
A Catalan Film Follows the dancer Sol Picó from under the spotlight to her reality behind the scenes. Her work is characterized by showing a strong and brave woman who …
Read MoreFrom Knee to Heart
Blending improvisational dance and documentary, FROM THERE TO HERE depicts a courageous group of women, survivors of sexual violence and marginalization, moving against gender inequalities in Kolkata, India and using …
Read MoreFrom There To Here
At his mother Annabel’s request Andre returns home to visit his dying father Theo. Together with his sister Sanne, her husband Victor and son Teun the family confronts each other …
Read MoreGoing Home
In 1997 magician/psychic, Uri Geller tried to help Second Division football club Exeter City win a crucial end of season game by placing “energy-infused” crystals behind the goals at Exeter’s …
Read MoreHappy Ending
Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns is a dance film that plays out a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far we will go in the name of entertainment. Directed, choreographed …
Read MoreHofesh Shechter’s Clowns
In India, the idea of God is inseparable from the idea of infinity …
Read MoreHolding Up Universes (Jagadodharana)
“No delusions of grandeur, just grandeur.” …
Read MoreI Don’t Want To Be Your Love
Mari is feeling trapped in her relationship with Alex and tries to break free. But as soon as she is out, she is filled with self doubt.. Is she really …
Read MoreI Wanted to Be Me
If Cities Could Dance features dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance. If you’ve spent any time in …
Read MoreIf Cities Could Dance: Oakland (KQED)
If Cities Could Dance features dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance. Many often label the rich history …
Read MoreIf Cities Could Dance: Richmond (KQED)
Coping with a troubled relationship with his brother, a lonely boy finds himself in an imagined world where he experiences love, connection, and new-found strength …
Read MoreImagined Escape
Inspired by the life and work of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin. Set in Paris 1892, Camille (Natalia Osipova – Royal Ballet) struggles to work as memories of their past …
Read MoreIn Her Hands
Director Aneil Karia and choreographer Alesandra Seutin’s film INA (LIGHT) sees two dancers struggle through the fear-drenched darkness of oppression and fear to arrive in the lightness of freedom …
Read MoreINA (LIGHT)
Dance Film SF’s 2019 Co-Laboratory film, Into the Neural Forest, is an intimate encounter putting you inside a choreographic model of a brain to witness the birth of an idea …
Read MoreInto the Neural Forest
A Catalan Film Barcelona based filmmaker and photographer Derek Pedros has directed this dance video with Iron Skulls Co, a group of people who share their different preferences and experiences …
Read MoreIRØN MODVM
Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet White Darkness as a requiem for his sister. The result is a masterpiece which, according to critics, has reached heights deemed hitherto impossible on …
Read MoreLes Ballets de Monte Carlo
Bringing his experience in the ballet world with him, Lil Buck heads back to South Memphis to teach dance to the youth, offering them the chance of a better future …
Read MoreLil Buck: Real Swan
The prison population in the US has quintupled since 1980. Despite accounting for 37% of the American population, Blacks and Hispanics account for 64% of the prison population, and 75% …
Read MoreMAI: Am I a Man
Making Men – Teaser 01 from Dunia Dance on Vimeo …
Read MoreMaking Men
In choreographer Angelin Prejlocaj’s work set in the French abbey of Montmajour, a man remembers the bodies in motion, giving life to this millennial and empty set. Conceived as a …
Read MoreMemories of Bodies in Motion
Memory Of Forgiveness is a dance film inspired by the book 50 Years of Silence by Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a Dutch woman who was forced by the Japanese army to work …
Read MoreMemory Of Forgiveness
A Catalan FilmDuring the daily soccer match of the kids on the playground, everybody is waiting anxiously for the ball. But when it’s Gerard ́s turn, other abilities come to …
Read MoreMy Big Match (Mi Gran Partido)
An unsupervised tribe of 75 children take over the entire city of New London, creating their rites and rituals through playing street games. Their vibrant spirit evokes hopes for the …
Read MoreNew London Calling
A ballet short film about the relentless yearning for escapism and the intoxicating fantasy of otherworldly emotional connectivity with alternative selves and others, as a way out of the growing …
Read Moreof ECSTASY
There are many empowering benefits of dance, but healing from sexual assault was never supposed to be one of them …
Read MoreONE IN FOUR
The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken over …
Read MoreOrphée et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of C…
North American Premiere Queen + Bejart: Ballet for Life by Lynne Wake and Simon Lupton tells the story of the creation and subsequent success of the ballet featuring the great …
Read MoreQueen & Béjart: Ballet For Life
Two star dancers, Aurélie Dupont from France and Diana Vishneva from Russia, allow a rare and privileged glimpse as they embrace the challenge of having one week to learn and …
Read MoreRépétition(s)
A short film experience of the joy of flight featuring disabled dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson …
Read MoreREVEL IN YOUR BODY
US Premiere Starring Royal Ballet Principal Dancers William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward as the young star-crossed lovers. Ms. Hayward is notable for being one of the few black ballerinas to …
Read MoreRomeo and Juliet
Searching for Wonder was inspired by conversations with fellow artists who have diverse relationships to the African Diaspora. These discussions highlighted how we all feel lost in different ways, because …
Read MoreSearching for Wonder
Inspired by the wisdom gained from eagles, Shapeshifter embraces the interconnectedness of all living things; the two legged, the four legged, the winged, the finned, and the rooted. Stemming from …
Read MoreShapeshifter
Arthur Grimes was born and raised in the Appalachian mountains. He is the only professionally working, African-American buck dancer in Boone, North Carolina. In this short documentary, Arthur recounts his …
Read MoreSound and Sole
In this hilarious animated short, a guy loses control in the middle of a supermarket …
Read MoreSupermarket Fever
Surprise Yourself is story about a young man challenging his father for the first time. We see Kyle Allen realize that his father will always be a part of him …
Read MoreSurprise Yourself
Created, filmed, and recorded in 48 hours in Brazzaville (Congo), T.I.A. (THIS is Africa) features choreographer and dancer Aïpeur Foundou, who blends contemporary dances with traditional Congolese movements. Features an …
Read MoreT.I.A. (THIS is Africa)
The streets of “el caminito” in Buenos Aires become the mystic scenery where some fellows will perform one of piazzolla’s master pieces Fuga y Misterio and will bring to life …
Read MoreTanguito Argentino
After losing his hearing, a boy discovers a pair of magic tap shoes hanging from a telephone wire …
Read MoreTap, Tap, Tap
Tchaikovsky, PRO et CONTRA is Boris Eifman’s fifth screen ballet in recent years. The ballet itself is the result of Boris Eifman’s years-long contemplation of the great composer’s personality and …
Read MoreTCHAIKOVSKY PRO et CONTRA
The concept of the film is based on the physical and emotional behaviour of breathing. This vital living function is manifested in an artificial and yet organic material, plastic, as …
Read MoreThe Act of Breathing
The Circle is a bold and lyrical portrayal of two brothers, David and Sanchez, living on a Hackney council estate, in East London. The film gives a compelling insight into …
Read MoreThe Circle
An Iranian dance film where the performer dances her way through the crowds of narrow bazaar alleys in an elaborate choreography on both the performing and camera-operating side. Shot guerrilla …
Read MoreThe Dérive
Gabriel Mata came to the US as a child with his Mother. He shares with us his story of learning that he was undocumented and the fears that surrounded his …
Read MoreThe Dreamer
The King of Twirl is a ‘dance-documentary’ about the eleven year old Janero. Janero can not sit still, he’s alway dancing. He wants to prove himself and be the best …
Read MoreThe King of Twirl
Young ballerinas find clever ways to make the letter Q with their costumes and positions …
Read MoreThe Letter Q
The Shadow Drone Project began as a collaboration between choreographer Charles Linehan and Lithuanian aerial photographer Karolis Janulis, filming planned and unplanned events in civic and natural environments from an …
Read MoreThe Shadow Drone Project
THERE ONCE WAS A WOMAN is an original musical drama about a downcast woman in pre-industrial America. Featuring an all-female cast and shot over 12 hours in Los Angeles, this …
Read MoreThere Once Was A Woman
On the journey to self autonomy we must shed layers of attachment …
Read MoreThis is The Walk
Mesmerizing animated short born out of animator Ryan Woodward‘s fascination with the motion of the human body in dance and his nostalgic soft spot for the 2D animation styles of …
Read MoreThought of You
An introspection of freedom, culture and identity through the minds of raw battle B-boys in the Bay Area …
Read MoreUnderground
This original musical follows a series of couples who’ve been separated due to war. Written, directed, choreographed, produced, edited, and composed by celebrity choreographer Galen Hooks …
Read MoreWait For Me
What Came Before is a poignant encounter where the respective blood memory of African Americans and Native Americans is channeled into the souls of one another. This rendezvous illuminates their …
Read MoreWhat Came Before
“Ballet dancers are fiercely both owned and on display as a profession. Looking into the camera we reclaim our dancing, our intention, and our breath itself.” …
Read MoreYou Don’t Own Me
Short film from Infinite Flow, a nonprofit and professional dance company based in Los Angeles with a mission to make dance accessible to all and to use dance as vehicle …
Read More
Read More
#InfiniteInclusion
The traditional mourning dance has not been performed for nearly 50 years until Ali, a Kurdish dance master, decides to perform it for his friend who lost his life in …
Read More
Read More
A Dance for Death
Three dancers enact the best photographs of brilliant Chinese photographer Ren Hang, who was well known for his shocking photographs bordering on taboo. Ren Hang killed himself in 2017, at …
Read More
Read More
A Dance for Ren Hang
The struggle of a father who works as a tiler. He is fighting to overcome his life difficulties in order to protect the most precious thing to him, his family …
Read More
Read More
A N D R E A S
ABOUT FACE is the first of a 3-part short film series that puts a different spin on the school to prison pipeline and the role of fathers of black and …
Read More
Read More
About Face
In Afterimage for Tomorrow, director Singing CHEN collaborates with choreographer Shou-Yi CHOU to perform the ineffable in memories. This metafiction film set in a futuristic world where memories can be …
Read More
Read More
Afterimage for Tomorrow
The iconic ballet, reimagined. The classic story of love, betrayal and redemption has been reimagined in this stunning new version, with sets and costumes by Academy-Award winning designer Tim Yip …
Read More
Read More
Akram Khan’s Giselle
The Queens roses have been painted red! After she finds the culprit, The Queen battle’s Alice in Struttersland. Impressed by Alice’s movement, The Queen invites Alice in a duet of …
Read More
Read More
Alice In Struttersland
AXIS – anatomy of space – created by choreographer, film-maker and New Zealand Arts Laureate Daniel Belton. AXIS is a collaboration between Good Company Arts and renowned artists Joyce Beetuan …
Read More
Read More
AXIS (Water Planet)
Ballet Break asks three SF Ballet dancers to trade in their pointe shoes for sneakers, and the stage for something sweet, simple, and rife with nostalgia: a good old-fashioned playground …
Read More
Read More
Ballet Break
Guided by the spirit of creative partnership and inspired by the experience of maternity as a complex journey in a woman’s mind, body and life, the film Before You Had …
Read More
Read More
Before You Had A Name
Taking inspiration from a science fiction novel from 1969 by Michael Moorcock, the story is about a modern version of the first human being, who appears on earth as an …
Read More
Read More
Behold The Man
Betroffenheit is a riveting, tender-hearted exploration of loss, isolation and survival in the aftermath of a life-altering tragedy. This dance-theatre hybrid has been awarded “best dance show of the 21st …
Read More
Read More
Betroffenheit
Filmed on location on Cape Cod, between silences is a dance film based on Ali Kenner Brodsky’s solo “the most depressing piece.” Together with filmmaker Rich Ferri, Kenner Brodsky transforms …
Read More
Read More
between silences
I came to think about the existence of dust that can not be seen in space. Questions and compassion about forgetting us are the purpose of making this film. The …
Read More
Read More
Blue Breath
The daily struggles of our lives weigh us down and drains away our energy. Balancing our passions, financial priorities, family, friends, mental and physical health becomes a dangerous tight rope …
Read More
Read More
Bone + Tissue
Clémentine is a scream from beyond the viscera between mineral, beast and man, an unusual encounter with matter, our shadows and light merging into one, crossing through sequins and mud …
Read More
Read More
Clémentine
Transfixed by racial, political, and socioeconomic tensions saturating the news, movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, enveloped by the art of Alexa Meade, switch off the TV and release …
Read More
Read More
Color of Reality
Singer/songwriter Patrick Haggerty is credited for writing America’s first gay country music album, Lavender Country. Released in 1973, this album was originally a bootleg, community sponsored project for gay liberationists …
Read More
Read More
Come Out to Lavender Country
Another life exists behind closed doors. A life of sexuality, meditation, heart, and privacy. Jaime Castilla strips away his exterior shell to reveal an intimate look at what home means …
Read More
Read More
Coming Home
In 2016, as part of the National Park Centennial, and directed by Amelia Rudolph, the dancers and technical team of Bandaloop, shot Coyote Waltz in Yosemite park. Dancing on mountain …
Read More
Read More
Coyote Waltz
SFDFF presents a special collaboration with the Chinese Dancers Association of Beijing to showcase films from its Young Artist Platform, a program curating young Chinese creators. Intelligently crafted short pieces …
Read More
Read More
Dance Films from China
Dance, Dance, Evolution is a short documentary film exploring transgender people’s relationship to dance. Specifically, the film looks at how shifting ones gender might cause shifts in how one dances, …
Read More
Read More
Dance, Dance, Evolution
The documentary film Dancing on Icebergs charts the two-year-long making of the short film Antarctica: The First Dance created by Kiwi choreographer Corey Baker, and Royal New Zealand Ballet star …
Read More
Read More
Dancing on Icebergs
In artful-surreal visual worlds we are a part of the rise, the development and the fail of 4 characters at their way to a personality. Everything starts by asking about …
Read More
Read More
Dialectic Diary
“Disregarded” is a short film about the experience of not being seen and the messy feelings around being invisible. Choreographed by Jodi Lomask of Capacitor, and performed by Carolina Czechowska …
Read More
Read More
Disregarded
Family Portrait – Trailer from Jingqiu Guan on Vimeo …
Read More
Read More
Family Portrait
Four contemporary choreographers come together for a programme that leads the Opera’s dancers to a new form of modernity where bodies vibrate with intensity. To open the evening, James Thierrée …
Read More
Read More
Four Choreographers of our Time at the P…
A Catalan Film Follows the dancer Sol Picó from under the spotlight to her reality behind the scenes. Her work is characterized by showing a strong and brave woman who …
Read More
Read More
From Knee to Heart
Blending improvisational dance and documentary, FROM THERE TO HERE depicts a courageous group of women, survivors of sexual violence and marginalization, moving against gender inequalities in Kolkata, India and using …
Read More
Read More
From There To Here
At his mother Annabel’s request Andre returns home to visit his dying father Theo. Together with his sister Sanne, her husband Victor and son Teun the family confronts each other …
Read More
Read More
Going Home
In 1997 magician/psychic, Uri Geller tried to help Second Division football club Exeter City win a crucial end of season game by placing “energy-infused” crystals behind the goals at Exeter’s …
Read More
Read More
Happy Ending
Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns is a dance film that plays out a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far we will go in the name of entertainment. Directed, choreographed …
Read More
Read More
Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns
In India, the idea of God is inseparable from the idea of infinity …
Read More
Read More
Holding Up Universes (Jagadodharana)
“No delusions of grandeur, just grandeur.” …
Read More
Read More
I Don’t Want To Be Your Love
Mari is feeling trapped in her relationship with Alex and tries to break free. But as soon as she is out, she is filled with self doubt.. Is she really …
Read More
Read More
I Wanted to Be Me
If Cities Could Dance features dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance. If you’ve spent any time in …
Read More
Read More
If Cities Could Dance: Oakland (KQED)
If Cities Could Dance features dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance. Many often label the rich history …
Read More
Read More
If Cities Could Dance: Richmond (KQED)
Coping with a troubled relationship with his brother, a lonely boy finds himself in an imagined world where he experiences love, connection, and new-found strength …
Read More
Read More
Imagined Escape
Inspired by the life and work of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin. Set in Paris 1892, Camille (Natalia Osipova – Royal Ballet) struggles to work as memories of their past …
Read More
Read More
In Her Hands
Director Aneil Karia and choreographer Alesandra Seutin’s film INA (LIGHT) sees two dancers struggle through the fear-drenched darkness of oppression and fear to arrive in the lightness of freedom …
Read More
Read More
INA (LIGHT)
Dance Film SF’s 2019 Co-Laboratory film, Into the Neural Forest, is an intimate encounter putting you inside a choreographic model of a brain to witness the birth of an idea …
Read More
Read More
Into the Neural Forest
A Catalan Film Barcelona based filmmaker and photographer Derek Pedros has directed this dance video with Iron Skulls Co, a group of people who share their different preferences and experiences …
Read More
Read More
IRØN MODVM
Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet White Darkness as a requiem for his sister. The result is a masterpiece which, according to critics, has reached heights deemed hitherto impossible on …
Read More
Read More
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Bringing his experience in the ballet world with him, Lil Buck heads back to South Memphis to teach dance to the youth, offering them the chance of a better future …
Read More
Read More
Lil Buck: Real Swan
The prison population in the US has quintupled since 1980. Despite accounting for 37% of the American population, Blacks and Hispanics account for 64% of the prison population, and 75% …
Read More
Read More
MAI: Am I a Man
Making Men – Teaser 01 from Dunia Dance on Vimeo …
Read More
Read More
Making Men
In choreographer Angelin Prejlocaj’s work set in the French abbey of Montmajour, a man remembers the bodies in motion, giving life to this millennial and empty set. Conceived as a …
Read More
Read More
Memories of Bodies in Motion
Memory Of Forgiveness is a dance film inspired by the book 50 Years of Silence by Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a Dutch woman who was forced by the Japanese army to work …
Read More
Read More
Memory Of Forgiveness
A Catalan FilmDuring the daily soccer match of the kids on the playground, everybody is waiting anxiously for the ball. But when it’s Gerard ́s turn, other abilities come to …
Read More
Read More
My Big Match (Mi Gran Partido)
An unsupervised tribe of 75 children take over the entire city of New London, creating their rites and rituals through playing street games. Their vibrant spirit evokes hopes for the …
Read More
Read More
New London Calling
A ballet short film about the relentless yearning for escapism and the intoxicating fantasy of otherworldly emotional connectivity with alternative selves and others, as a way out of the growing …
Read More
Read More
of ECSTASY
There are many empowering benefits of dance, but healing from sexual assault was never supposed to be one of them …
Read More
Read More
ONE IN FOUR
The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken over …
Read More
Read More
Orphée et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of C…
North American Premiere Queen + Bejart: Ballet for Life by Lynne Wake and Simon Lupton tells the story of the creation and subsequent success of the ballet featuring the great …
Read More
Read More
Queen & Béjart: Ballet For Life
Two star dancers, Aurélie Dupont from France and Diana Vishneva from Russia, allow a rare and privileged glimpse as they embrace the challenge of having one week to learn and …
Read More
Read More
Répétition(s)
A short film experience of the joy of flight featuring disabled dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson …
Read More
Read More
REVEL IN YOUR BODY
US Premiere Starring Royal Ballet Principal Dancers William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward as the young star-crossed lovers. Ms. Hayward is notable for being one of the few black ballerinas to …
Read More
Read More
Romeo and Juliet
Searching for Wonder was inspired by conversations with fellow artists who have diverse relationships to the African Diaspora. These discussions highlighted how we all feel lost in different ways, because …
Read More
Read More
Searching for Wonder
Inspired by the wisdom gained from eagles, Shapeshifter embraces the interconnectedness of all living things; the two legged, the four legged, the winged, the finned, and the rooted. Stemming from …
Read More
Read More
Shapeshifter
Arthur Grimes was born and raised in the Appalachian mountains. He is the only professionally working, African-American buck dancer in Boone, North Carolina. In this short documentary, Arthur recounts his …
Read More
Read More
Sound and Sole
In this hilarious animated short, a guy loses control in the middle of a supermarket …
Read More
Read More
Supermarket Fever
Surprise Yourself is story about a young man challenging his father for the first time. We see Kyle Allen realize that his father will always be a part of him …
Read More
Read More
Surprise Yourself
Created, filmed, and recorded in 48 hours in Brazzaville (Congo), T.I.A. (THIS is Africa) features choreographer and dancer Aïpeur Foundou, who blends contemporary dances with traditional Congolese movements. Features an …
Read More
Read More
T.I.A. (THIS is Africa)
The streets of “el caminito” in Buenos Aires become the mystic scenery where some fellows will perform one of piazzolla’s master pieces Fuga y Misterio and will bring to life …
Read More
Read More
Tanguito Argentino
After losing his hearing, a boy discovers a pair of magic tap shoes hanging from a telephone wire …
Read More
Read More
Tap, Tap, Tap
Tchaikovsky, PRO et CONTRA is Boris Eifman’s fifth screen ballet in recent years. The ballet itself is the result of Boris Eifman’s years-long contemplation of the great composer’s personality and …
Read More
Read More
TCHAIKOVSKY PRO et CONTRA
The concept of the film is based on the physical and emotional behaviour of breathing. This vital living function is manifested in an artificial and yet organic material, plastic, as …
Read More
Read More
The Act of Breathing
The Circle is a bold and lyrical portrayal of two brothers, David and Sanchez, living on a Hackney council estate, in East London. The film gives a compelling insight into …
Read More
Read More
The Circle
An Iranian dance film where the performer dances her way through the crowds of narrow bazaar alleys in an elaborate choreography on both the performing and camera-operating side. Shot guerrilla …
Read More
Read More
The Dérive
Gabriel Mata came to the US as a child with his Mother. He shares with us his story of learning that he was undocumented and the fears that surrounded his …
Read More
Read More
The Dreamer
The King of Twirl is a ‘dance-documentary’ about the eleven year old Janero. Janero can not sit still, he’s alway dancing. He wants to prove himself and be the best …
Read More
Read More
The King of Twirl
Young ballerinas find clever ways to make the letter Q with their costumes and positions …
Read More
Read More
The Letter Q
The Shadow Drone Project began as a collaboration between choreographer Charles Linehan and Lithuanian aerial photographer Karolis Janulis, filming planned and unplanned events in civic and natural environments from an …
Read More
Read More
The Shadow Drone Project
THERE ONCE WAS A WOMAN is an original musical drama about a downcast woman in pre-industrial America. Featuring an all-female cast and shot over 12 hours in Los Angeles, this …
Read More
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There Once Was A Woman
On the journey to self autonomy we must shed layers of attachment …
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This is The Walk
Mesmerizing animated short born out of animator Ryan Woodward‘s fascination with the motion of the human body in dance and his nostalgic soft spot for the 2D animation styles of …
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Thought of You
An introspection of freedom, culture and identity through the minds of raw battle B-boys in the Bay Area …
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Underground
This original musical follows a series of couples who’ve been separated due to war. Written, directed, choreographed, produced, edited, and composed by celebrity choreographer Galen Hooks …
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Wait For Me
What Came Before is a poignant encounter where the respective blood memory of African Americans and Native Americans is channeled into the souls of one another. This rendezvous illuminates their …
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What Came Before
“Ballet dancers are fiercely both owned and on display as a profession. Looking into the camera we reclaim our dancing, our intention, and our breath itself.” …
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