The star-studded trio of Cynthia Erivo, Misty Copeland, and Kyle Abraham collaborated on an evocative short film in honor of the upcoming movie Wicked: For Good. Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the two-part film adaptation of the musical, sings a pared-down version of “No Good Deed” accompanied by just violin and cello, while Copeland dances […]

A new documentary following New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck over six years opens the San Francisco Dance Film Festival tonight. Tiler Peck: Suspending Time will be aired nationally as part of PBS’ “Great Performances” series, starting Friday, November 7. The documentary offers a personal look into Peck’s daily life as she navigates major […]

While Caleb Teicher says that they and Nic Gareiss “lead full artistic lives as percussive dancers in different ‘scenes,’ ” the two have also been frequent collaborators over the past 15 years. This short film captures the give-and-take of their improvisation, in which rhythm becomes both structure and language. “In our duo shows, this improvisation is […]

Texas Christian University dance professor, choreographer, and longtime Dance Magazine contributor Suki John transformed a work she first created in 1990 into the narrative dance film Sh’ma: A Story of Survival, for which she was recently awarded the 2025 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Feature Film. On the significance of Sh’ma, John […]

To continue our recent celebration of 25 to Watch Live, this week we’re featuring three dance films from artists featured in 2025’s “25 to Watch” in a mini Friday Film Break Festival. On BLUSH, directed and choreographed by Dava Huesca and danced by Charrie Burke, Huesca says: “As a Black woman I am consistently navigating a world […]

To continue our recent celebration of 25 to Watch Live, this week we’re featuring three dance films from artists featured in 2025’s “25 to Watch” in a mini Friday Film Break Festival. On his dance film Ballroom Dancing, choreographer Loughlan Prior explains: “I’d been creating a lot of large-scale narrative work for the stage, and so […]

To continue our recent celebration of 25 to Watch Live, this week we’re featuring three dance films from artists featured in 2025’s “25 to Watch” in a mini Friday Film Break Festival. On SEX MYTHS, danced by Susie Buisson and Pierre-Émile Lemieux-Venne, choreographer Brett Fukuda explains: “SEX MYTHS represents my commitment to challenging preconceptions about gender. It […]

The short film Then Comes the Body tells the inspiring and unlikely story of a ballet school outside of Lagos, Nigeria. Film director Jacob Krupnick first discovered Leap of Dance Academy as millions of others did—through a viral video of ballet students dancing in the rain during the first summer of the pandemic. The school […]