Die junge Eiskunstläuferin Nadja gilt als vielversprechendes Nachwuchstalent in der Eissportszene. Doch ihr Traum von einer großen Karriere wird schon bald von einem tragischen Unfall überschattet: Kurz vor einem wichtigen Wettkampf stürzt sie und verletzt sich schwer. Sie kann ihre Beine nicht mehr bewegen und muss fortan in einem Rollstuhl sitzen. Niedergeschlagen von ihrem Schicksal zieht sich Nadja immer weiter zurück, bis sie auf den Eishockeyspieler Sasha trifft, der ihr wieder neue Hoffnung gibt.
Schon in jungen Jahren fühlt sich Cole Porter zur Musik und zum Theater hingezogen. Professor Monty Woolley, dessen Theaterkurs er besucht, unterstützt ihn in seinem Entschluss, das begonnene Jura-Studium an der Yale University abzubrechen. Als Cole sein erstes Musical schreibt, verschafft ihm Monty eine Chance zur Aufführung. Doch das Stück fällt bei der Premiere durch. Enttäuscht über diesen Misserfolg zieht Cole 1914 als Freiwilliger der französischen Armee in den Ersten Weltkrieg und wird verletzt. In einem Lazarett trifft er seine Freundin Linda Lee wieder, die dort als Krankenschwester arbeitet. Um Cole wieder schnell auf die Beine zu bringen, besorgt sie ein Klavier, an dem Cole daraufhin einen seiner größten Hits schreibt: Night and Day. Linda schlägt ihm schließlich vor, mit ihr in ihrer Villa an der Riviera zu leben. Doch obwohl sich Cole inzwischen in Linda verliebt hat, will er sich nicht von ihr aushalten lassen, sondern in Amerika sein eigenes Geld verdienen.
Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned tradition upside down and has taken the ballet fraternity by storm. Never has such a contemporary re-working of a traditional ballet thrilled both ardent critics and modern dance enthusiasts in such equal measure. Originally broadcast on the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 26, episode 15).
Science-fiction dance film that looks into togetherness and loneliness. Covid-19 and the measurements taken because of it have changed our way of being together into a more digital, online and always connected manner.
The story of Ohad Naharin, renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.
CRAZY BELCHES OUT A GHOST. From there on the two women, almost Siamese in their connection, will fight until one remains. The film's explores cinema and dance from a perspective outside either discipline's language
After escaping from her homeland and now abandoned by the man she loves, Medea must find strength from within to fight against growing injustice - how far is she willing to go?
Eva, an indecisive dancer, is going to an audition for a famous dance school in a week. What Eva wants to dance is not the same as what her teacher, Dania, thinks is right. What does Eva do?
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War, with documentary segments by Adam Curtis.
A contemporary dance film by choreographer Talia Miharu inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting, "The Kiss", starring Kaben Benavides and Gabriel Tolmer.
Are we ever honest enough to be unaffected by lies? This is the question asked by Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts (Gengangere). Oswald Alving returns from a bohemian existence in Paris to small-town Norway. Encountering people who do not communicate, Oswald responds by becoming ironic and distant. He gradually learns more of the secrets that weigh on his family, as well as those inside himself. His mother, Mrs Alving, welcomes her much-missed son home - and slowly understands what, or whom, he has brought home with him. Together with the young, critically acclaimed choreographer Cina Espejord, she retells Ibsen's play as a ballet. The pair feel the story is suited to dance because both it's inner and outer brutality can be pitted against the power of dance. Ibsen's Ghosts is an evocative production in a modern dance style. Nils Petter Molvær has composed new music, which he performs on-stage together with Jan Bang.
Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.
A videodance short-film of the avant-garde / experimental dance group of the same name based on the book "Húmus" (released in 1917) by Raul Brandão.
A year in the life of Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, students of Fine Arts in Paris, lovers in troubled times, overwhelmed by maddening verbal and auditory stimuli, witnesses of a globalized violence more visible than ever in a chaotic digital era, in which the slow execution of simple gestures in a silent performance is an act of resistance.
In 2007 the Sydney Dance Company appointed 29-year-old choreographer Tanja Liedtke as their first new artistic director in 30 years. However before she could take up the position, she was struck and killed by a truck in the middle of the night. Admired internationally as a dancer and celebrated for her fresh choreographic voice, she was known as a dedicated artist, intelligent, dorky, funny and generous. 18 months after her death her collaborators embark on a world tour of her work, and in the process they must deal with their grief and explore the reasons for her death. Interspersed with intimate footage of her artistic process and previously unseen interviews, Life in Movement is a film about moving creatively through life and loss. Filmmakers Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde give us a powerfully rendered take on art and artists, creativity and our own mortality.
Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour is based around seven couples separating and intermingling, to music by Vivaldi and Ezio Bosso and lit with the rich colours suggested by sunset. In Flight Pattern, Crystal Pite combines Górecki's haunting “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” with a large dance ensemble to create a poignant and passionate reflection on migration. Between them, Medusa is new work inspired by the Greek myth, created for The Royal Ballet by the acclaimed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, which juxtaposes Purcell arias with an electronic score by Olga Wojciechowska.
in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping, the moon tells me a secret, a confidant As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own and a million light reflections pass over me, the source is bright and endless. She resuscitates the hopeless. Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting.
After their mother's femicide, three siblings are separated and forced to live in different places. Years later they gather to raise their voices and fight to be made visible in a country where orphans for femicide are ignored by the state and invisible to society. It's up to them to tell their story.
A single father in Paris struggles to care for his child and escapes periodically through contemporary dance.
A woman battles against the constraints of a controlling patriarchal figure symbolised by a haunting mask. As she strives for freedom and dances to her own rhythm, the gripping visuals unfold a poignant tale of struggle and the inescapable influence of societal expectations.