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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this avant-garde short film, a ballet dancer performs a surreal and experimental dance routine accompanied by classical music. The film explores themes of surrealism and showcases the beauty of dance.
A contemporary dance film by choreographer Talia Miharu inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting, "The Kiss", starring Kaben Benavides and Gabriel Tolmer.
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 single father in Paris struggles to care for his child and escapes periodically through contemporary dance.
Aging out of his art form, a contemporary dancer is forced to deal with an unknown future while desperately trying to save a young friend from a life of crime echoing his own shady past.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?