Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1953 • United States

Director Shirley Clarke’s first film displays the dancing expertise of choreographer Daniel Nagrin as he performs in a studio and in the sun. Drawing upon her own dance training, Clarke fluidly follows Nagrin as he moves across the interior and e...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1956 • United States

The recurring theme of dance once again works its way into a Shirley Clarke project, as this short film features a performance that takes place across a multitude of environments. As a primary couple intimately interacts, Clarke tests herself as ...

Directed by Peter Glushanov • 1957 • United States

One of the great artistic forces of the twentieth century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance worldwide. Criterion presents a sampling of her stunning craft, all collaborations with television arts-programming p...

Directed by Peter Glushanov • 1958 • United States

A newlywed couple, a revivalist preacher, and other pioneers celebrate the construction of a farm house in this filmed ballet conceived and choregraphed by Martha Graham.

Directed by Alexander Hammid • 1960 • United States

A powerfully physical rendering of the Oedipus myth choreographed by Martha Graham.

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1978 • United States

Part of Shirley Clarke’s cycle FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME, this short film observes a dance that represents a spiritual or religious initiation.

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1978 • United States

Part of the larger filmic cycle FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME, this work makes use of a dancer’s body as a canvas on which to paint projected images.

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1978 • United States

This abstract work featuring three dancers interacting with large screens as well as each other. Costuming and color play an integral role in this piece, part of Shirley Clarke’s FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME.

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1978 • United States

A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film by director Shirley Clarke, part of her FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME project.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1978 • Poland

Krzysztof Kieślowski made more than twenty documentaries, including this wryly observed short, which profiles seven ballet dancers, one for each day of the week. From a fledgling student to a star ballerina in her prime to an older dancer now cast...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States

This video documents “Cake Walk,” an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant’s pioneering New York gallery Just Above Midtown. The piece refers to the cakewalk dance that develo...

Directed by George T. Nierenberg • 1985 • United States

George T. Nierenberg’s brilliant and blissful followup to NO MAPS ON MY TAPS is introduced by legendary dancer Gregory Hines, who shares his childhood memories of watching and imitating the tap-dance greats at the Apollo Theater. ABOUT TAP ...

Directed by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie • 2015 • France, Canada
Starring Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Directed by Raven Jackson • 2018 • United States

Traversing New York City, a dancer seeks freedom and peace through movement.