Ballerina and Soldier Teach basic ballet steps.

Margot Fonteyn said that the future of ballet lies in the hands of the people of Asia. We will focus on the development of ballet in Asia. What have Hong Kong and China done with the Russian "Vaganova" technique and why are they winning all of the ballet competitions around the world?

Mozart was without doubt the most prodigiously gifted of all Western composers. More than any other composer, it is his mythological biography - from the archetypal 'Wunderkind' childhood to his early obscure death - that defines our popular conception of a great composer. This film unravels two hundred years of fiction and myth. The deteriorating relationship Mozart had with his father, and his choice of Constanze for his wife are re-assessed in...

Tibetan people are known to be candid, compassionate, and devout. Years of oppression, geographical conditions, and weather conditions significantly impact Tibetan dance movement. This film examines their dance style that reflects daily life and maintains a strong religious quality.

Experience Alexander Ekman´s exceptional ballet, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, created for the Royal Swedish Ballet with a score by award-winning Mikael Karlsson. This contemporary ballet explores the energy and the mysteries of the summer solstice night in the Scandinavian tradition. The program also features experimental pop singer Anna von Hausswolff, acclaimed percussionist Niklas Brommare, and the classical string quartet Dahlkvistkvartetten.

As two foundational elements of hip hop culture, breaking and graffiti art are closely connected. GRAFFITIDANCE places both art forms side-by-side and explores what they share in common, in a special episode that focuses on the role of music and visual art in hip-hop culture. Featuring Junior from Wanted Posse.

Volume VI of the How to Dance Through Time series reveals social interactions in the 19th century ballroom and demonstrates group dance formations and figures. Dancers parade around the room to view prospective dance partners-and to be viewed by others-in the Grand March. Next, the Lancers' Quadrille, a forerunner to the American square dance, exhibits a variety of the period's fluid, geometric patterns in five sections. Lastly, the coquettish Cotillon...

Gospel is a genre of religious music, which is very much focused on a strong vocal delivery. These amazing harmonies and lyrics, which are celebratory.It’s music of unparalleled spirituality. It’s the music of hope; it’s the music of light, and it’s the music of better times ahead. It’s a combination of African Spirituals from Africans who were brought over to be slaves, and Christianity, but the non-conformist side of Christianity; Methodism,...

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, is considered the most powerful woman in American politics. Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House and the first woman to be third in line for the presidency. Among her greatest accomplishments in government was the passage of the Affordable Care Act/Obama Care, providing millions of Americans access to medical insurance. She shares what it was like wielding such political...

All choreographed genres, from scenic dance to folkloric and tribal dance, feature group dance, whether the group is made up of three or thirty dancers. From the Farandole to the chorus line, from dancing in a ring to mass-anarchy, from the rigours of the ballets corps to the flamboyance of Bollywood, all group dance enjoys a highly communicative, communal energy. Dancing together, sharing music and space, as one or disjointedly, in unison or out...