Movies: Dancing

In Afghanistan, "batchas" are young male prostitutes who live under the protection of a master in a house where they are trained to dance dressed as girls for a men's audience. Veteran dancer Saman starts worrying when he sees Bijane, the new recruit...

Two couples in present day Ljubljana enroll in a dance school for tango, and in the process learn a great deal more – about life, about love, about themselves....

An overconfident young man tries to woo a woman by showing off his dance moves....

A lonely cute alien traveling through space is forced to land on Earth when the spacecraft malfunctions and by chance. The very friendly and dancing-loving alien takes up her sleeves to explore the planet, find friends and her funny and fun adventure...

The centerpiece of A. Grikevicius's film is Tomas Petreikis, the chief engineer of the machine factory in Kaunas F. Dzeržinskis. Rather than creating a regular, conjunctural narrative about the hero of socialist work that exceeds production norms, th...

Straight off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live performances, a...

In the colorful world of rock acrobatics, a male and female dancer meet to prepare for a competition. During rehearsals, we discover their doubts, their conflicts, the beauty and difficulty of working together, but also the strong bond between the tw...

The Father is dead, and chaos has taken his place. Blood will pour in the battle for the territories he held....

A place to be at night in São Paulo....

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This was one of a series of concerts James Brown gave at the Apollo in Harlem in March 1968. This performance was broadcast on television as James Brown: Man To Man. In addition to 16 vintage color performances from the concert, this special also in...

At an abandoned cinema, an undying desire unravels. A surreal, lustful dance to the music of Public Memory....

Stepping is a dance form that can be found across the country at virtually every college with a substantial African American enrollment. Stepping is performed informally during parties as well as more formally during organized step shows. This film e...

Three years later, Tomaz meets Milena in Ljubljana where she practices dancing. In order to spend more time with her, Tomaz enrolls at the dance club where he finds many new friends. As the club is faced with close-down, the members decide to save it...

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Why We Fight? is a cinematographic film that tries to understand the violence around us, but also within ourselves, in order to better cope with the world today....

Turf dancers combine abrupt, angular movements with graceful footwork. This short film is an episode of the award winning Youtube series If Cities Could Dance, featuring dancers across the country representing their city’s signature moves....

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any mo...

Mr Plastimime is a funny and moving story about a man who faithfully practices a dying art, a man whose timing is a bit off, a man whose skills aren’t recognized, a man who is unlucky in love; But this is a man who keeps moving forward, faithfully be...

“Where We Danced” is the first in a three-part series that chronicles the evolution of American social dance. It tells the story of America’s dance through the lives of the dancers who shaped the art form as well as the places they danced. The story...