In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.
Tag: dance
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Flashdance
Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and encourages her to fulfil her dream.
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Cinderella ’80
A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There’s a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?
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Beat Street
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
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Tuff Turf
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
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Twelfth Night, or As You Like It
Brother and sister accidentally find themselves at a modern street ballet performance. They are so fascinated by the plot that, forgetting that they are at a performance, they climb onto the stage and find themselves in a fairyland.
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Hail the New Puritan
A fictionalized portrait of the British dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, depicting a day in his life as he and his company prepare for a performance.
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Dancing Village: The Curse Begins
Mila must return a mystical bracelet to the “Dancing Village,” unaware that Badarawuhi – a mysterious, mythical being who rules the village – awaits her.
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KKN: Curse of the Dancing Village
Six students were terrorized by a mysterious dancer while running a community service program in a remote village. Apparently, one of them violates the most fatal rule in the village.
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Lambada
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid’s respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin’s double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.