Tag: dance
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Narcissus
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.
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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,…
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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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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.
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Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women
A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her own trauma and loss during the Jim Crow-era South.
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Strictly Ballroom
Brave new steps put Scott’s career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
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Kuffs
George Kuffs didn’t finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George’s brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad’s “patrol special” privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.
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Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)
Given its premiere by The Royal Ballet in 1965 with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing the title roles, Kenneth MacMillan’s first full-evening ballet has become a signature work for the Company, enjoying great popularity around the world. From the outset, the production teems with life and colour as the townspeople, market traders and servants…
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Blue Juice
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris’ strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo’s tyranny.
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Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful “instincts” guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters…
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Salsa
At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years – Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight:…