The Art of Meditation

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...

Serpentine dance.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

A Victorian couple dancing.

A joyful Pas de Deux, performed by Clara Rasmussen and Margrethe Andersen. Clara Rasmussen/Wieth/Pontoppidan (1883-1975) was to become one of the...

A filmed record of a fan dancer performing a dance using two white sheets suspended from poles which she frantically twirls around herself to create...

Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...