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Cover imageAchterland. Rosas Dance Company.

Author: de Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa

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Danced to music by Ysaye and Ligeti, Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker's Achterlandrepresents a climax in the... [full description]

DVD [0265-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageAlston in Overdrive.

Published: 2005

An in-depth analysis of Richard Alston's multi-layered work Overdrive, first performed by the Richard Alston... [full description]

DVD [4580-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageAlvin Ailey: An Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Revelations, Divining, The Stack-Up, Cry.

Published: 2004

Four staple items from the Ailey repertory: Ailey's masterpiece Revelations, Divining choreogaphed by... [full description]

DVD [3915-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageAmelia. La La La Human Steps.

Author: Lock, Edouard

Published: 2006

The multi-award winning dance film Amelia, directed and choreographed by Édouard Lock and performed by... [full description]

DVD [4672-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe American Invasion 1962 - 72.

Published: 2005

In the post World War II period, before the early 1960s, professional dance in Britain was dominated by classical... [full description]

DVD [4593-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageBeach Birds for Camera, Changing Steps, Deli Commedia. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Published: 2003

Three pieces specially made for the camera. Beach Birds for Camera is a wide-screen film adaptation of one of... [full description]

DVD [2242-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageBehind the Curtain, Being a Professional Dancer.

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A series of interviews with dancers, both classical and modern, who have come to New York to fulfil their dreams of... [full description]

DVD [5260-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageBill T Jones - Dancing to the Promised Land.

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Built around rehearsal and performance sections of his epic masterpiece Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The... [full description]

DVD [3246-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageBound; Absolute Zero; Still Move; Beyond Bound. Saburo Teshigawara.

Author: Teshigawara, Saburo

Published: 2008

Four films, all directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre, choreographed by or featuring the Japanese modern dance choreographer... [full description]

DVD [5379-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Car Man. Choreography by Matthew Bourne. Adventures in Motion Pictures.

Published: 2001

The dreams and passions of a small community are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Fuelled by heat and... [full description]

DVD [3824-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Catherine Wheel. Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation.

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When Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel was premiered on Broadway in 1981 it was described by one critic as 'a... [full description]

DVD [4590-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageCirque du Soleil, volume 1: Varekai, Dralion, A Baroque Odyssey, Journey of Man.

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A boxed set of 4 DVDs, at a special price, of some of Cirque du Soleil's most popular productions.

[Coded for PAL... [full description]

DVD [5450-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageClash. Ludus Dance Company.

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A clash of personality, a clash of culture, a point of collision, a conflict. Conflict exists at all levels of human... [full description]

DVD [4617-DV] £ 23.49 Add to order


Cover imageCorteo. Cirque du Soleil.

Published: 2006

Presented by Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian performance company who combine dance, acting, mime, acrobatics, and music,... [full description]

DVD [4911-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Cost of Living. DV8 Physical Theatre.

Published: 2006

Eddie and David are disillusioned street performers, stranded in a faded English seaside resort where the summer season... [full description]

DVD [4637-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageCursive II. Cloud Gate Theatre of Taiwan.

Published: 2006

Inspired by the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, Cursive II leads the dancers into dialogue with calligraphic... [full description]

DVD [4695-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDance Theatre of Harlem. Fall River Legend, Troy Game, The Beloved, John Henry.

Published: 2001

Choreography by Agnes de Mille, Robert North, Lester Horton, and Arthur Mitchell respectively. [Coded for regions 2 and... [full description]

DVD [3766-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDark. Carolyn Carlson and Company.

Author: Carlson, Carolyn

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Carolyn Carlson is a magician of ambiguity who transports her audience into a netherworld where life meets death. Her... [full description]

DVD [5752-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageDido & Aeneas, Choreographic Opera. Sasha Waltz & Guests.

Published: 2008

In Dido & Aeneas Sasha Waltz opens up new horizons in music theatre, creating a fusion of dance, singing, and... [full description]

DVD [5432-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageDV8 Physical Theatre - Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, Strange Fish, Enter Achilles.

Published: 2007

Based on the grisly world of the notorious serial killer Dennis Nilsen, Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men is founded... [full description]

DVD [4948-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageEssential Alston: a choreographer discusses his work.

Published: 1998, 2008

On this DVD, first published as a video in 1998, the choreographer Richard Alston discusses his work, with performance... [full description]

DVD [5549-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageEuropean Dance Theater: tanztheater. An Overview of its Past and Present.

Author: Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa

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Harold Bergsohn and Isa Partsch-Bergsohn present an hour-long programme of interviews, archival footage, and short... [full description]

DVD [4989-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageFase, a film by Thierry De Mey, based on the choreography by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

Published: 2002

Fase:Four movements to the music of Steve Reich by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker dates back to 1982 and was her... [full description]

DVD [0285-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageFaultline. Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company.

Published: 2008

Award-winning choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh's Faultline of 2007 uses dance, film, and a powerful score to... [full description]

DVD [5531-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageFlag 2007. The Cholmondeleys, The Featherstonehaughs, The Colquhouns, The Marjoribanks.

Published: 2008

In June 2007, to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall in London, The Cholmondeleys, Featherstonehaughs,... [full description]

DVD [5316-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order


Cover imageFlesh & Blood; Double Take. The Cholmondeleys; The Featherstonehaughs.

Author: Anderson, Lea

Published: 2005

A double bill of two British modern dance classics. To celebrate twenty years of choreography, 1984 - 2004, Lea... [full description]

DVD [4600-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order


Cover imageFour elements - Four seasons. Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola.

Published: 2009

A modern dance realisation of two classic 18th century music scores: Jean Féry Rebel's Les... [full description]

DVD [5779-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageGrupo Corpo, Brazilian Dance Theater.

Published: 2003

The innovative Brazilian dance company, combining the sensuality of Afro-Brazilian dance forms and the technical... [full description]

DVD [0459-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageHanya, Portrait of a Pioneer.

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The career of the choreographer Hanya Holm, from Germany in the 1920s through to the Broadway stage.

As one of the... [full description]

DVD [4988-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Hard Nut. Mark Morris Dance Group.

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The Hard Nut is Mark Morris's witty and audacious version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and a warm-hearted... [full description]

DVD [5542-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageHoppla! Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

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Two pieces to live performances of music by Bartók, performed in the reading room of the University of Ghent.... [full description]

DVD [5333-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageIsadora Duncan Masterworks 1905 - 1923. Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble.

Published: 2008

This 52 minute-long DVD contains reconstructions of 10 short pieces choreographed by Isadora Duncan, performed by the... [full description]

DVD [5553-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageJose Limon - Three Modern Dance Classics (The Moor's Pavane, The Traitor, The Emperor Jones). Jose Limon Dance Company.

Author: Limon, Jose

Published: 2002

Limon was a Mexican-American choreographer who continues to be regarded as one of the modern dance world's seminal... [full description]

DVD [3890-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageKontakthof, with Ladies and Gentlemen over '65', Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.

Author: Bausch, Pina

Published: 2007

When Pina Bausch revived her seminal 1978 dance piece in 2000 she opted to use a cast of seniors, previously untrained... [full description]

DVD [5241-DV] £ 32.99 Add to order


Cover imageLaban Dance Works: Re-Creations from his Chamber Dance Repertoire 1923 - 1928.

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A short documentary showing the reconstruction and performance of excerpts from some of Rudolf Laban's early dance... [full description]

DVD [4311-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Makers of Modern Dance in Germany. Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss.

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This 100 minute documentary, combining interviews, archival films, and comments from distinguished dance historians,... [full description]

DVD [4992-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageMary Wigman 1886 - 1973 'When the fire dances between two poles'.

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In Mary Wigman's definition of dance, sparks jump from dancer to spectator, enlivening both. Here is a vivid film... [full description]

DVD [1582-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageMidnight Sun. Cirque du Soleil.

Published: 2005

A spectacular live performance, filmed at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in 2004 to celebrate... [full description]

DVD [4610-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageMoon Water. Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan.

Published: 2003

'Energy flows as water, while the spirit shines as the moon.' Choreographed by Cloud Gate's founder director, Lin... [full description]

DVD [2263-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageNaked. The Ballet Boyz - George Piper Dances.

Published: 2006

Michael Nunn and William Trevitt's creation, Naked, a blend of film and contemporary dance, is a modern tale of... [full description]

DVD [4630-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageL'Orfeo. Trisha Brown Company, Concerto Vocale.

Author: Monteverdi, Claudio

Published: 2006

A danced and sung performance of Monteverdi's great opera, L'Orfeo, filmed live at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.... [full description]

DVD [4945-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Parsons Dance Company.

Published: 2002

7 dances by David Parsons, performed by his own company. The dances are: Fine Dining, Brothers, Reflections of Four,... [full description]

DVD [1431-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imagePerfecting Eugene. Ludus Dance Company.

Published: 2006

In the mysterious, unfamiliar world of advancing science, the search for perfection continues. Mr and Mrs Baghead are... [full description]

DVD [4616-DV] £ 23.49 Add to order


Cover imagePulcinella (Richard Alston); Soldat (Ashley Page). Rambert Dance Company.

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The original version of Pulcinella was choreographed by Massine with designs by Picasso. Like the original,... [full description]

DVD [4667-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageQuidam. Cirque du Soleil.

Published: 2000

A breathtaking combination of acrobatics, mime, dance, and music make up this circus show about personal anonymity and... [full description]

DVD [2532-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageRecreating Rudolf Laban's Die Grunen Clowns, 1928.

Published: 2009

A recreation, on Trinity Laban students, of the Laban's Die Grünen Clowns, (The Green Clowns), a response... [full description]

DVD [5591-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageRosas danst Rosas.

Published: 2001

Four dancers do battle; with each other, with the stage, and with the public - a fight to the bitter end, set to the... [full description]

DVD [1065-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageRosas Shorts - three short films based on the work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

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Three short works, each of which succeeds in conveying the power of De Keersmaeker's work, not simply by recording... [full description]

DVD [5199-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageLe Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Leipzig Ballet.

Author: Scholz, Uwe

Published: 2009

German choreographer Uwe Scholz here presents two versions of Stravinsky's score: the first, in the version for two... [full description]

DVD [5574-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageSacred Monsters: Sylvie Guillem & Akram Khan.

Published: 2009

This major work brings together two of today's pre-eminent dance talents, Akram Khan, world renowned for developing his... [full description]

DVD [5617-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Shakers (Doris Humphrey). The Doris Humphrey Workshop Dancers.

Published: 1998

Based on Shaker ritual, The Shakers weaves Humphrey's fascination with the sect with her interest in formal... [full description]

DVD [1078-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageSold. Ludus Dance Company.

Published: 2006

From fashion to sport to home furnishings, many of the everyday items we covet have been made by child labour. This is... [full description]

DVD [4618-DV] £ 23.49 Add to order


Songs of the Wanderers. Cloud Gate Theatre of Taiwan.

Published: 2001

A dance piece inspired by the numerous religious practices which can be found on the vast Asian continent, especially... [full description]

DVD [0925-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Spark. Ludus Dance Company.

Published: 2006

Love is at the centre of all that is human. Love has also become a commodity, a product, a marketing device, but then... [full description]

DVD [4619-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order


Cover imageSurface Tension. Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company.

Published: 2005

First performed in 2000, Surface Tension is a work resonating with the hybrid influences that arrange and... [full description]

DVD [4658-DV] £ 34.99 Add to order


Cover imageSutra. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Monks from the Shaolin Temple.

Published: 2009

Celebrated Flemish/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents a new dance work inspried by the skill,... [full description]

DVD [5576-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageA Tribute to Alvin Ailey. For Bird with Love, Witness, Memoria, Episodes. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Published: 2001

The first three pieces are choreographed by Ailey himself, the last by Ulysses Dove. [Coded for regions 2 and 5: the UK... [full description]

DVD [1994-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageWater Study (Doris Humphrey). The Doris Humphrey Workshop Dancers.

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Water Study is one of the first works Humphrey composed as an independent choreographer. Imagistically... [full description]

DVD [5554-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageWild Child. Ludus Dance Company.

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'Before dawn on January 9th 1800, a remarkable creature came out of the woods near a village in southern France. Animal... [full description]

DVD [4620-DV] £ 23.49 Add to order


Cover imageWith My Red Fires, New Dance. American Dance Festival Company.

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Two masterpieces of modern dance choreography by the pioneer American choreographer Doris Humphrey. With My Red... [full description]

DVD [4987-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imagezero degrees. Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nitin Sawhney, Antony Gormley.

Published: 2008

zero degrees explores borders between countries, cultures, and, most importantly, between life and death. It... [full description]

DVD [5559-DV] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imageZygote. Ludus Dance.

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An exploration of teenage partnering and pregnancy, Zygote charts the rocky road of growing up in a frantic... [full description]

DVD [4621-DV] £ 23.49 Add to order



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