Inc Tendu TV
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Enemy Within is a short narrative film that brings together some of the most well-known and talented dancers in their respective genres. Featuring Matthew Rushing, Rehearsal Director with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Tiler Peck, Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet, YouTube sensation Marquese 'Nonstop' Scott and Samantha Figgins, dancer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, the film captures the beauty of human movement through a...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Don Quichot is a dazzling display of high spirits, virtuosity and Spanish temperament. The flamboyant leaps, dizzying pirouettes and crisp pointe work that are standard features of the production give the performers every opportunity to show off their technical prowess. But at the same time, the comic story based on Cervantes' masterpiece makes strong demands on the dancers' acting abilities. The leading Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky drew...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Choreographer Alonzo King, acclaimed as "one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times" by world-famous William Forsythe, works with his company The Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Before founding LINES Ballet in 1982, King worked for companies around the world, including the Frankfurt Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Washington Ballet, and the Hong Kong Ballet. With its global perspective on dance, the LINES...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program presents original film clips of Americans dancing iconic and vintage dances. Dancetime Publications has culled footage from multiple archives and libraries to create this collection of pivotal dance moments reflecting changing trends, expertise, and taste. A chronicle of American dance culture, this retrospective ranges from people dancing at social events to top ballroom performers, as well as showing rare footage of African American...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones returns to the stage at the center of a new work for his renowned company. Inspired by legendary artist and composer John Cage's Indeterminacy, a performance of seventy one-minute stories interrupted by a chance musical score, Jones creates a collage of dance, music, and seventy of his own short stories, arranged anew for each performance by chance procedure. In Story/Time, Jones fuses the age-old art of storytelling...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This program presents a collection of rarely seen original film footage from Soundies and short films of the 1930s and 1940s. The films come from the private collection of Mark Cantor's Celluloid Improvisations Music Film Archive, a collection of 4000 preserved jazz-musicals , and from the Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Every selection has been carefully researched by Andrew J....
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) presents a one-of-a-kind glimpse of ballet from today and yesterday. The film is hosted by "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance" Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, and stars leading figures from the world of ballet. Dancers such as Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Marcelo Gomes, Veronika Part and Hee Seo from American Ballet Theater, Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova of San Francisco Ballet,...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cursive II had its international premiere at the opening of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. After studying Chinese calligraphy masterpieces, Lin Hwai-min found, despite the differences in styles, all the brush works share one common element: the focused energy with which the calligraphers "danced" during writing. Chinese believe there are five shades of black ink. Cursive II explores the lighter shades in a meditative mood, evoking the...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Thierry Malandain pays tribute to Tchaikovsky's three great ballets: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Recorded at the Gare du Midi in 2010 and performed by the Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Malandain takes the audience back to childhood through a mixture of dreams and reality.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A haunting take on jealousy, this existential thriller posits a man, a woman, and an elusive lover in a series of intense pas de deux in a stark apartment that becomes a fourth character. Danced to a commissioned score by David Lang with solo cello by Maya Beiser, the work features NYCB principal Wendy Whelan, Giovanni Bucchieri and Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg, (The Rain, Mirror) also known for his work with Morphoses.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This Baroque dance documentary provides a rare look at the artistic process of re-creating dance and dance-theater, from studio to stage. It provides information about Baroque music, fencing, mask work, notation, costumes, and the inner life of dance performers working in this dance style. Excerpts of 18th century theatrical dance styles include: the danse heroique, the demi-caractère, and the comic/grotesque style. Produced by Dancetime Publications...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jirí Kylián is a living legend. He is the creator of more than a hundred works, several of which are included in repertories of some of the world's greatest dance centers. This film is exceptional due to the choreographer's reluctance to participate in a documentary. For the first time, we look closely at Kylián' life, his way of thinking and at his most significant creations. The film was shot in Den Haag, Prague, Monte-Carlo and Paris.
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
This program includes three performances of Jiri Kylian's work by the Netherlands Dance Theater: Sinfonietta, Synphony in D, and Stamping Ground. Inspired by Janácek, Kylian's Sinfonietta, matches the forceful fanfares of Janácek's music by a ceaselessly energetic and exuberant display of movement, evoking the spirit of the "modern, free Czech". In Symphony in D Kylian demonstrates his remarkable ability to create a highly inventive and graceful...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1937, the nation struggled to recover from the Great Depression. Americans from every background let loose in the Big Apple circle dance, memorialized by Frankie Manning's choreography for Harlem dancers in the film "Keep Punching." This documentary portrays the Big Apple craze from its discovery in Columbia, South Carolina, and explores its African ceremonial roots. As this video reveals, the Big Apple was a unifying experience that provided joy...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
German Lineage In Modern Dance: Solos by Wigman, Hoyer, Holm, Nikolais, Louis celebrates the legacy of modern dance that started in Germany before World War I and expanded into new dimensions in the United States in the late 20th century. The influence of German Expression Dance, or Ausdruckstanz, has spanned decades and spread to diverse areas globally. Works of each choreographer are highlighted through solos, narration and original photographs....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores the history and scope of the hip-hop dance style. The movement is also studied as a global marketing phenomenon. Despite its popularity, hip-hop struggles to define its historical lineage, concept, origins, aesthetics, and generational acceptance. Discover how it was first introduced to mainstream America in the early 1970s as break dancing (or b-boying). Learn how hip-hop has evolved and where it's headed.
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The mid-20th century period of dance produced many fascinating and artistically significant dances worthy of preservation. Members of The New Dance Group were idealistic artistic innovators that aimed to make dance a viable statement about the social injustices of the world. This film presents some of the most influential New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.) pioneers' legendary work and pays heed their message of social consciousness. Produced by the...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The musical black and white film Car-men is the first collaboration between Jirí Kylián and film director Boris Paval Conen. They shot the film together with four dancers in a brown coal mine in the Czech Republic, where Kylián made the choreography directly on site. The story about passion and revenge is based on the opera Carmen . The dancers, all over forty, play the four archetypes from the opera: the restless and seductive Carmen, the hopelessly...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This program integrates documentary information with re-staged dances based on literature and iconography to reveal 19th century ballet innovations. Bridging the gap from Baroque dance to Romantic Ballet, this period offered a revolutionary focus highlighting the stories and characters of everyday people, inspired by a combination of dynamic influences from 'national dance'. Re-staged dances include Fanny Elssler's signature dance "Cachucha" and works...