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A Belly Dancer
Erotic dance performed by an unknown female dancer.
The Elephant Dancer
Everyone has childhood memories of a zoo. The 1950s were a paradise with monkeys riding bicycles and lions jumping through rings of fire. Animals of today are placed in an artificial, ‘virtual’ natural environment, and are subjugated as ‘humanised’ animals. They lose their natural habits and become physically and mentally warped. As we see ..
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
Sumiko Haneda returns to film what will be the final bits of Akiko Kanda's life, documenting Kanda's will to dance as she struggles with terminal cancer.
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legend..
Peter Martins: A Dancer
A late 1970s look at Danish ballet star Peter Martins's art and an assessment of what makes him unique and highly lauded on the international stage of ballet.
Delivery Dancer's Sphere
Ernst Mo works for courier service Delivery Dancer. Every day, she transports an endless stream of parcels, following algorithmically generated routes through a labyrinthine Seoul. After she runs into an alternative version of herself, her reality slowly starts to crack – with all the attendant consequences. In her own unique style, artist Ayoung..
The Professor and the Belly Dancer
Hashem works as a teacher in the city of Tanta. When some of his students visit the Abbas band that roams the carnivals, he warns them against it. But when he sees the dancer Lula who works in the band, he falls for her and joins them.
Story of Taxi Dancers
Xiu Juan, a filial daughter and caring sister, trades her soul for money to look after her mother and her brother's studies. The unsung heroine meets a tragic end when her complexion is destroyed by drug pusher Qin Chao who was jilted by her.
Dancers of the Sacred Mountain
Documentary about the force of the scissors dance, its historical importance and cultural resistance through the body and its movements.
Negro Street Dancers
Londres, Rupert Street, devant le Solferino Restaurant : des nègres dansent une danse de leur pays dans une rue de Londres.
The Last Wish of a Dancer
An eighty years old Mbah Kancil talks about her past as a dancer and comedian in the traditional group of Ludruk performers and Remong dancers when she travelled to Jakarta together with Dagelan Pete group in the 60s, while reflecting on her life existence and her final wish.
Choreography for a Camera and Dancers
The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in Choreography for Camera" from 1945. The theme of the film is inspired by a composition by Ivo Malec "Miniatures for Lewis Carroll", and the dance is performed by the members of the Studio for Contemporary Danc..
Two Half Dancers
The story of an art: dance.
Ballet of Two Dancers
A woman adopts a girl who becomes a dancer.
A Dancer Dies Twice
Kizzy Matiakis is 38 years old and at the peak of her profession. She is one of the Royal Danish Ballet’s biggest stars, but like all other ballet dancers, her career ends when she turns 40. With only one season left, Kizzy must find out who she will be when she is no longer the company’s guiding star. She desperately wants to be a mother again..
Public Sector Dancer
A government casino is exposed to financial losses due to the public's reluctance to attend its sessions, so two of its employees invent the idea of attracting an oriental dancer to attract the audience. to a major financial crisis.
Mary Wigman dancer
A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in “Hexentanz”, Mary Wigman is a woman-flower, goddess and a prophetess in turn. Her jerky, sombre and introspective movements proudly claim the expression of the free body. We are at the end of the roaring twenties and Mary Wigman p..
