In a theatre of public lies, dance becomes a vessel to speak out the truth 

Two takes on a cinematic dance scene that is simultaneously strange and mighty

Dance and rotoscope animation combine to stunning effect in the award-winning Netflix series

The dark side of dance takes centre stage in Olivia Wilde’s tale of beauty and control

The unnerving AI disco dance in Alex Garland’s movie provokes ideas about dance, autopilot and self-programming

The bump of lust and the grind of vacuity form ‘the great beauty’ that prefigures our times

The dreamspaces of dance and narrative cinema coincide in the unreal romance of Charlie Kaufman’s film

Splay, squash, splash, shatter… Smac McCreanor’s twisted replications of objects breaking under pressure are comic, relatable – and addictive

Blowing up the final scene of Antonioni’s notorious film to reveal the games of reality and representation

Accessories, prosthetics, props, extensions, constructions… Dorothy Allen-Pickard’s short film on the blur between materials and bodies

In the marvellous finale of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, a dance, not a drink, comes to fill a lack in our lives. Here are two takes on the scene, one on the merging of actor, character and movement, the other a close-up of the dance itself.

Dance can slip through the nets of convention and identity – just like the films of David Lynch

Double trouble in the climactic dance scene of Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror Us

In a city with a reputation for film festivals, the third Thessaloniki Cinedance International festival focuses on artistic crossover

Dance brings a moment of presence within the waking dream of a world adrift

The BBC/Netflix crime drama Giri/Haji is another sign of mainstream media turning to contemporary dance for inspiration and innovation 

Animal courtship dances transformed into human choreography by Russell Maliphant, to advertise condoms

A conversation on the highlights from this year’s POOL international dance film festival Berlin, with Springback Berliners Beatrix Joyce and Evgeny Borisenko

In Wes Anderson’s 2012 film, two runaway pre-teens dance on the empty beach of an unknown land called love

A mind-blowing, free-spirited dance film that is both scientifically exact and culturally far out 

A solitary dance becomes a rite of transformation in Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker

Gaspar Noé’s Climax is thrilling, stylish and harrowing. Its story is prefigured in the extraordinary opening dance scene

Eyeballs, Icarus and underwater football: filmmakers respond to the theme ‘Surrealism’ at this year’s festival

T-step on the tarmac? An innovative school principal goes viral with his plan to get kids moving

Standouts and commentary from the first London International Screendance Festival by Springback correspondent Suzanne Frost

Slick, stylish, violent… the Axe Gang in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle know how to cut a figure on the dance floor – and off it…

A tango scene in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together invites our hearts into the spaces between separation and togetherness, fiction and reality

In place and out of time: dance anachronisms in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite (2018) are part of a fickle world 

The distorting mirror of dance reflects an intimate reality of adolescent vulnerability in Dogtooth (2009)

What is Szerpentin? Named after Loïe Fuller’s Serpentine Dance, the biennial Szerpentin Dance Film Festival takes place in Budapest, Hungary. It is directed by Gábor Pintér (artistic director of the Parallel Art Foundation, which organises the festival) who has been working with dance film for almost 15 years, having launched and run the EDIT festival…

Andres Arochi’s short film uses dance to revisit Luis Barragán’s masterpiece of modernist architecture

Wedged between independence and genocide, a Cambodian dance scene shows that loving life is precious – and takes practice

Toil and trouble brews in a cavernous, covenous dance company

A pivotal scene in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina is wordless, its drama of love, transgression and death distilled in dance

An intoxicating scene from Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang embodies the headlong rush of youthful love and the mystery of its memory