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Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian film based on professional dancer Li Cunxin's 2003 autobiographical memoir of the same name. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi ...
Release date: 13 September 2009
Genre:
Drama
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet ...
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Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Herbert Ross. Hugh Wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky; it was based largely on the premier ...
Release date: 20 March 1980
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact...
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Isadora
1968 biographical film by Karel Reisz
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Isadora (also known as The Loves of Isadora) is a 1968 biographical drama film directed by Karel Reisz from a screenplay written by Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, and Clive Exton adapted from the books ...
Release date: 1 December 1968
Genre:
Biography, Drama
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well ...
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The White Crow is a 2018 biographical drama film written by David Hare and directed by Ralph Fiennes. It chronicles the life and dance career of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, played by Oleg Ivenko.
The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
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Desert Dancer is a 2014 British biographical drama film directed by Richard Raymond and written by Jon Croker. Starring Reece Ritchie and Freida Pinto, the film is based on the true story of Afshin Gh ...
Release date: 10 April 2015
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amid his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing ...
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Yuli
Cuban 2018 ballet biopic
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Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story is a 2018 dance biopic about the Cuban ballet director and dancer Carlos Acosta; based on his biography and starring Acosta as the adult version of himself, it was directed ...
The director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some ...
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The Dancer (French: La Danseuse) is a 2016 biographical historical drama film about dancer Loie Fuller, directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto from a screenplay she co-wrote with Sarah Thiebaud and Thomas Bi ...
Genre:
Biography, Drama, Music
Loïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The ...
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Lola, the Movie (Spanish: Lola, la película) is a 2007 Spanish biographical drama film directed by Miguel Hermoso from a screenplay by Antonio Onetti [es] which stars Gala Évora as the title character ...
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