“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legendary Graham and became a principal dancer with the troupe. Following the wiry artist as she moves from practice floor to performance hall, and from the cramped single-room apartment she lives in to a trip home to see her aging mother, director Sumiko Haneda reveals a woman who has rebelled against traditional ideals of marriage and motherhood, and who nearly single-handedly brought modern dance to Japan-and kept it alive. “When I die,” Kanda tells the director, “I will be content if I can just say, ‘I danced.'”

A short life of a dance.

Having dance parties at weekends and assigning good-looking female art troupe members and actors to dance with the chief executive was once a common phenomenon in mainland officialdom after 1949. This film records the tragic fate of two actors and couples in a cultural and industrial troupe of a military region, and their obedience and resistance to the political task of “serving the chief”.

After having trouble with the dancer who worked with him for several months, the drummer Abdo discovers a young dancer Mabahig who lives with her sister and her brother-in-law. He trains her till she becomes a famous dancer.

The story of an art: dance.

In the abandoned village of Rokkasho, a crazy woman dances. Who is she?

Absolute terror strikes an unlucky man.

Sukie (Cao Zhichun) was originally a girl in the sky. In order to help his boyfriend Dick repay his debt, he decided to use his flawless body to dance a stripper. As an artist, Sukie received patience training from Charlie (Charlie Cho), and got along with each other day and night. Therefore, Charlie gave up his ex girlfriend Sisi (Ouyang Kaixuan), and developed a close physical relationship with Sukie, Sukie was planted and framed, and the owner of the art troupe, Gongzixuan (played by Dick Yip), became furious. In addition to brutally raping Sukie, he also coerced her into becoming his mistress. However, the gangster prodigal son (played by Tang Wenlong) who had always protected Sukie, immediately reached out to help Sukie Emotion and desire constantly develop among everyone, constantly sublimating and exploding A poignant story of a Sino Japanese mixed race child forced to sell his body and dignity.

A man not content with his wife, falls in love with a club dancer; but doesn't tell her he is married. The story is as bitter as real life.

The man-hungry “vampire,” later to be popularized by America’s Theda Bara, made her screen debut in this Danish melodrama directed by August Blom. Clara Wieth starred in the title role of the Vampire Dancer, which is just what she was: a dancer performing her seductions on-stage. Off-stage, the young girl is kindhearted and a bit naïve. The lustful dance, during which Robert Dinesen succumbs to the dancer’s fatal charms, remained the centerpiece of the film, which was a popular success and made Wieth an international star.

A woman adopts a girl who becomes a dancer.

“Bailaora” is the third and last short film in the trilogy “Luz & Oscuridad ” (Light & Dark).

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

A late 1970s look at Danish ballet star Peter Martins's art and an assessment of what makes him unique and highly lauded on the international stage of ballet.

Kizzy Matiakis is 38 years old and at the peak of her profession. She is one of the Royal Danish Ballet’s biggest stars, but like all other ballet dancers, her career ends when she turns 40. With only one season left, Kizzy must find out who she will be when she is no longer the company’s guiding star. She desperately wants to be a mother again, but will her body grant her that wish?

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

The blind librarian Lisa loves to dance. Director Maria challenges her to recapture herself, her body and her sensuality by traveling to Brussels to dance with the world-famous blind dancer Said Gharbi.