Movies: Talley Beatty

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s....

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violen...

Restored film directed by Josef Berne, released in 1942...

A colorful music and dance tribute to the peasants and workers of Brazil....