Actor and storyteller Christopher Rivas created this short film, “Sweat Drought,” about our need for movement and release after all the overlapping traumas and pent-up frustrationsof the pandemic. Set to a mix of recorded dance footage and submitted videos from the community, Rivas reads this moving essay he wrote: As a child I often watched […]

During the height of the pandemic, New York City-based director and photographer Megan L.C. McNally teamed up with New York City Ballet corps member Gilbert Bolden III to create a COVID-safe project. With Bolden serving as choreographer and a dancer, the film brought together dancers from NYCB (Laine Habony, Mira Nadon, Spartak Hoxha and Kennard […]

Design-led content creation studio Ataboy recently released a five-part dance film series shot at Brooklyn’s Art Cake gallery. As part of the series, choreographer and dancer Morgan Griffin’s “A Brief Dissolve” takes advantage of visual effects by Perry Kroll to creatively frame, mirror and, yes, dissolve her movement. Other entries come from choreographers Eva Alt, […]

The latest episode of the award-winning KQED series “If Cities Could Dance” shines a spotlight on Katherine Dunham and her impact on East St. Louis, Illinois. Meet the dancers and teachers who carry on her legacy in the city where she settled—which is now home to the Katherine Dunham Center for Arts and Humanities and […]

After spending the pandemic locked down in Seville, Spain, contemporary Flamenco dancer Cristina Hall returned to her hometown of San Francisco and put all the emotions of the past year and a half into a dance film. Directed by Natalie Shirinian and with cinematography by Dylan Bell, “Boundaries” was shot at Saint Joseph’s Art Society, […]

Shot in a Chicago parking lot, “Ended When” counterbalances that tranquil feeling of lying down and staring up into the clouds with a feeling of all-consuming heartbreak. The work is a re-imagined dance film version of a solo from choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams’ 2016 creation Cloudline for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Co-directed by Mike Gibisser […]

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener perform in Gagosian gallery’s latest episode of Gagosian Premieres. Available on Gagosian’s website and YouTube channel, the short film celebrates the work of abstract expressionist painter Gerhard Richter. Gagosian is one of the foremost art galleries in the world, with 17 branches spanning the United States, Europe and Asia. Mitchell […]

To celebrate National Tap Dance Day earlier this week, Chicago’s M.A.D.D. Rhythms released two new dance videos, including “Aisha,” choreographed by the group’s assistant director Starinah “Star” Dixon. To a song of the same name, written by McCoy Tyner and performed by John Coltrane, the company members perform a joyful, romantic dance filled with infectious […]