Movies and TvShows featuring "contemporary-dance" theme.
In 'So You Think You Can Dance', talented dancers from different backgrounds and styles compete to showcase their skills and win the title of America's favorite dancer. The show features a variety of dance routines, including ballroom, contemporary, hip-hop, and more. Viewers can interact by voting for their favorite dancers via phone. With live broadcasts and critiques from a panel of judges, the show offers a stage for both established and up-and-coming dancers to display their talent and entertain the audience.
German version of Dancing with the Stars, the reality competition in which celebrities perform choreographed dance routines which are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts and voted on by viewers.
Ice (2018) is a movie that follows the lives of ice-hockey and figure-skating athletes. The film showcases their struggles, dreams, and the challenges they face in pursuit of their passion. With elements of comedy, drama, and romance, Ice takes the audience on a journey of determination, friendship, and self-discovery in the world of sports.
After sustaining a career-ending injury, 26-year-old ballet dancer Élise is forced to find a new purpose in life. With the support of her friends, she discovers a company for modern dance in Brittany, which reignites her passion. Will Élise be able to overcome her obstacles and dance again?
Mr. Gaga is a documentary movie about Ohad Naharin, an Israeli choreographer, and the artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company. It explores the life, works, and influences of Naharin, showcasing his journey through contemporary dance and the loss of his wife. With a focus on his unique Gaga movement language, the film delves into the challenges, triumphs, and impact of Naharin's innovative approach to dance.
Night and Day is a 1946 American musical romance drama film inspired by the life of songwriter Cole Porter. The film chronicles Porter's struggles with depression, his turbulent relationships, and his rise to fame in the world of popular music. It explores themes of love, loss, and personal growth, as well as the power of music to heal and inspire.
Sticky Notes is a drama-comedy film about a dancer in Florida who is diagnosed with cancer. As she navigates her treatments and battles with her estranged father, she learns the importance of memories and the power of family. Along the way, she discovers the strength within herself to face her challenges head-on.
When presented with the opportunity to be cast in a lead role, an aging dancer must determine if her personal integrity outweighs her professional ambitions after experiencing a choreographer's unwanted sexual advances.
Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.
Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work.
A single father in Paris struggles to care for his child and escapes periodically through contemporary dance.
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.
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.
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.
Rejected for the lead role in a play because she is deemed too nice for it, Mintra accepts a female ghost's offer to help bring out her dark side.
The Solo documentary reveals six unique stories of individuals who use the art of dancing as their own tool in fighting back difficulties, dealing with pain, incomprehension, and obstacles standing in their way to happiness through creative self-expression. Six young performers who belong to completely different styles - classical ballet, contemporary dance, krump, vogue, experimental hip-hop, pole dance - represent the new generation of Russian artists, free from preconceptions, clichés, and ready to be part of the dance revolution. The documentary format of the project looks at real people in an intimate setting and the behind-the-scenes routine of professional dancers.
After their mother's femicide, three siblings were separated from each other and forced to live in different places. Many years later, they reunite to share their story in a country where orphans due to femicide are ignored by the government and invisible to society. It's time for them to speak their truth.
Unskin (2020) is a mesmerizing short film that explores the surreal journey of a contemporary dancer as she undergoes a profound metamorphosis. Filled with captivating visuals and thought-provoking symbolism, the film takes viewers on an introspective exploration of identity, transformation, and the power of self-discovery.
A partially improvised and experimental choreographic installation performed by Alexander Ekman and dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet. Based on Ingmar Bergman's TV-series "Scenes from a Marriage"
A short film about love, obsession and delusion, with a strong contemporary dance element.