A film about soloists of the Mariinsky Theater Diana Vishneva and Farukh Ruzimatov.

The Tankograd documentary takes places many years after the Cold War. A young generation of Russians face a heavy legacy from the old USSR. Radioactive accidents, leaks and waste from the production of atomic bombs have made their city the most radioactively contaminated place on earth. Curiously, the city also has one of Russia's most vibrant dance scenes.

Slavik (34), former world champion in Latin American dancing is making a last and final comeback with Anna, his ten years younger new dance partner and girlfriend. Slavik is addicted to the limelight, the dance and he misses the rush. These days, however, his aging body is causing him severe pains, and his temper puts his relationship with Anna at risk. The road to reclaiming the championships is a long, tough struggle. Slavik puts everything on the line in his ultimate push for the throne. Failure is not an option.

Three times a week, 15 women travel from different parts of the city by public transport, with transfers to a small club located in a former kindergarten. Here, on the outskirts of Minsk, is the only place in the city where they can take dance lessons for a nominal fee of 3,000 Belarusian rubles. The program includes belly dance, tango, blues. The students are no longer young, all at least 50 years old. Each of them had a very difficult life. Having gone through all the hardships, these women have not forgotten how to enjoy life and are still waiting for their "prince".

Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance on the best stages in the world, and a grateful, understanding and appreciating public. But, probably, not everyone knows that it all began in the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, when the Kirov Theater (now the Mariinsky Theater) and the Vaganov Ballet School were evacuated to the city of Molotov (as Perm was then called) from Leningrad, which was already practically blockaded by the Nazis. Then began this evacuation romance that continues to this day.

They are called invalids, and they dance the rumba. Is it possible? Definitely "YES!". Competitive struggle, professional disagreements and, of course, love. That's what really matters to true creatives.

Exclusive footage from the life of the ballerina Uliana Lopatkina.

The heroine of the film Marina, it would seem, has already passed her thorny path of dance from distant Turkmenistan to the championship of Russia, Europe, the stage of Los Angeles. However, today her life is a constant race in which Marina strives to ensure the prosperity of the dance company she created. What is more important, to raise a star out of your 4-year-old mulatto daughter Nicole, or still at least once again go on the stage of a giant show with the stars, albeit as a backup dancer, but in your favorite position in the first line in the middle?

The least known period in the life of the greatest dancer and choreographer of the 20th century, Rudolf Nureyev, was associated with Turkey, where he wanted to have his home, his island. The film uses a unique video footage of Nureyev's travels in Turkey and interviews with his close friends.

The focus of the film is on undoubted values, and the criterion is that which has stood the test of time. It is Time that becomes the main "censor" of 10 plots, it is it that determines what to keep for eternity and what to consign to oblivion forever. Each plot of the program strives to become a kind of mini-film with a dramatic basis, conflict and a super-task. The task is to tell simply about the “complex”, to reveal the depth and versatility of the “simple”.

The film tells about the life of young dancers and their path in the world of modern dance art, and also reveals the unique details of the emergence of a new dance culture in Russia. Representatives of six different dance styles (ballet, contemporary style, pole dance, hip-hop, vogue and crump) reveal all the behind-the-scenes secrets of a dancer's life: their eternal struggle for dominance on the stage, quarterly professional injuries and reflections on their place in the creative space. But each of them has its own "stage" and its own audience. Everyone has their own way towards their solo.

Short life of dance.

The Bolshoi. Symbol of Russia, a national treasure and one of the most famous institutions in the world. Recently, however, the theatre has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: intrigue, personal attacks and management changes have created lurid headlines. Now, for the first time, the theatre directors have allowed the backstage process to documented. With unparalleled behind the scenes access, the film will pay tribute to the dancers’ extraordinary artistic and athletic talents, their abiding fear of injury and the ruthless ambition needed to survive in the world’s most famous ballet company.

1991 the Soviet Union disappeared with the collapse of the country, some DJs turn towards the techno music and LSD, the capital starts to beat with a very different rthym. The directorOlga Darfy remembers her city Moscow, her youth and everyhting she lived during her 20s. Her friend Vanya Salmaksov one of the creator of the parties called GAGARIN PARTIES disappeared in 1998. The director decides then to tell about this dizzying time from fragments of experiencess interviewes, archives and memories asking herself and the people she meets in this journey: where is Vania? Where are all this intense emotions, the excitation, the romanticism? Where this time has gone?

An elderly man shows his wife old films on the screen. The younger brother of Maya Plisetskaya, Azariy, has been in the shadow of the great sister all his life. And all his life he did not let go of the camera, capturing not only his family, but also Roland Petit, Maurice Bejart, Galina Ulanova, Sol Yurok, Alicia Alonso and many others with whom his fate as a dancer and ballet teacher collided. A kaleidoscope of faces and events is formed in the lived life of Azariy Plisetsky, whom Bella Akhmadulina called "brother".

Television documentary series exploring the dances of the peoples of the world. Why do people on our planet dance this way today, and how will they dance tomorrow?

The Body of the War is a documentary dance which appears in the gap between Victoria's experience of the outside environment in peaceful Sweden and the inner world full of the war in Ukraine. Her body has become the body of the war. She is searching within herself to find where the war resides. Is it stocked in the cracks, wounds of the body, hair, skin pores, feet, bends and lengths of the body? The film is divided in three chapters and locations that are linked to specific places in Ukraine. The rock on a beach brings Victoria back to houses in ruins, a wheat field on a beautiful day reminds her of the burning fields in south of Ukraine and the safe landscape and statue of the Barsebäcks power plant is a stark contrast to the reality of the Zaporizhzhia NPP which is under constant military attack by the Russian army.

Rudolf Nureyev is a great dancer of the 20th century, a star of classical and modern ballet. A hungry boy from Ufa, who grew up in a poor family, infinitely far from the world of ballet, he owes his incredible rise only to himself, his perseverance and talent. Many are talented, but Nureyev is one. A man who lived an extraordinary life.

A Beautiful Tragedy is a character driven documentary film about 15 year old Oksana Skorik, at the Perm State Ballet School, who follows her mother’s dream to see her become a prima ballerina. Russian classical ballet is exceptional. It has glorious traditions, and is a distinct part of Russian self consciousness. The popular engagement is huge, and dance is taken to higher levels of perfection than anywhere else. The Perms Order of Honour Choreographic School lies far east in Russia, close to Siberia, and is one of the most renowned schools in the world. Of five hundred children selected for the annual audition at the school, only 30 are accepted. To get a place in the school the body has to be perfect: each part of the body is given marks, 5 is perfection. Then they look to see how supple the girls are, stretching their small bodies in every direction. Most of the girls spend 9 years at this school, sacrificing their youth and suffering unbearable pain – only to realize that their dream will not come true. Their ultimate goal could crash at any given moment. Oksana Skorik - the main character of the film - is the new Prima Ballerina at Meriinsky theatre in St Petersburg, and the new Russian star. This film is the 2nd part of the trilogy by David Kinsella and Anna Sirota called “The Children of Perestroika”. Other films - „Love Letters from a Children's Prison“ and „Killing Girls“ are also available for viewing on our site. The 3 films compare the Russian youth of before the revolution and after.

Headspins, windmills, and b-boying: a group of immigrants from the former Soviet Union form a breakdancing troupe in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Israel. They dream of competing in the International Breakdancing Competition in Germany, but the road is paved with hardship and crisis. Lacking an instructor, they learn moves from videotapes and move one step closer to their goal.

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