Margot (2005)

전직 브로드웨이 댄서이며 이혼녀인 폴라 맥페든 (마샤 메이슨) 은 어린 딸 루시 (퀸 커밍스) 와 뉴욕의 자그마한 아파트에서 살고 있다. 그녀는 이른바 “굿바이 걸” 이다. 그녀와 동거한 남자친구들이 번번이 그녀를 버리고 떠나기 때문이다. 또다시 배우 남자친구에게서 버림받은 폴라 앞에 거만하고 괘팍한 배우 엘리오트 가필드 (리차드 드레퍼스) 가 한밤중에 짐가방과 함께 나타난다. 이전 남자친구가 엘리오트에게 아파트를 임대했던 것이다. 엘리오트는 직장도 살 곳도 없는 모녀를 차마 내쫓지 못하고 세 사람은 기묘한 동거를 시작하게 된다. 성격이 판이한 두 사람은 사사건건 부딪치며 싸워댄다. 하지만 엘리오트가 출연한 연극 리차드 3 세는 엘리오트에게 리차드 왕을 동성연애자로 묘사하라고 요구하는 감독 (폴 벤자민) 에 의해 엉망이 되고 연극은 하루만에 막을 내리게 된다. 그리고 자신만만하던 엘리오트는 술에 빠져 번민하게 되고 그의 약한 모습에 폴라는 사랑을 느끼게 된다. 엘리오트는 돈을 위해 온갖 잡일을 하다 영화계약을 제의받는다. 하지만 영화를 찍기 위해 즉시 뉴욕을 떠나 촬영장소로 가야만 한다. 그는 어떤 선택을 할 것인가?

죽은 형의 아이들을 맡게 된 댄과 아내 조디는 한 연구기관에서 제공한 새집으로 이사를 한다. 방마다 설치된 수많은 카메라가 24시간 그들의 생활을 관찰하는데, 수상한 새집에서 조디는 섬뜩한 기운을 느낀다. 어느 순간 집안에서 정체 모를 소리와 사람의 기척이 들리고 심지어 물건까지 움직이기 시작한 것. 게다가 아이들이 ‘마마’라 부르는 존재가 점차 모습을 드러내기 시작하는데… 악마의 책에 의해 저주를 받은 ‘마마’, 좁혀오는 그녀의 손아귀에서 벗어나라!

Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.

Subaru and her twin brother Kazuma share a dream in becoming ballet dancers, but their passion is discouraged by their father. After Kazuma's death from a hereditary illness, dancing became Subaru's only happiness and she yearns to lose herself in dance. Her life takes a dramatic turn when she runs into cabaret owner Isuzu, who recognizes the talent in Subaru and trains her in her nightspot. But to become a professional ballerina, Subaru has to overcome harsher challenges than merely satisfying the cabaret drunkards. Spurred on by her rivaling dance companions, Subaru enters an international dance competition, to vie for recognition and a scholarship to any top ballet company in the world. Subaru and her companions soon discover that there are more to compete than the championship, and tests of friendship, betrayal and self-worth come one after another. Gradually the youngsters learn about themselves as dancers, as persons and as friends.

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.

A troupe of beautiful dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister castle, not knowing it is home to a group of vampires.

When Viktor meets Gizella one day beside the lake, he takes an interest in her and begins to call on her regularly. The one passion in the life of Gizella, who is unable to speak, is dancing. When Viktor deceives her and she finds him with another woman, she moves away and begins a career as a ballerina. Later, as she is on tour performing “The Dying Swan”, the artist Glinskiy attends her performance. Glinskiy, whose own obsession is to depict death in his art, becomes fascinated by Gizella, and he is determined to use her as a model for a special project.

A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous wife, a ballerina.

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Finally, he goes to bed and falls asleep, but ballet dominates even his dreams. He sees two dancers who seem to come right into his room as they perform, and that's just the beginning.

An injury and a surprise turn in her relationship bring a young dancer's life down around her.

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the performance. Later, she also twirls and does cartwheels.

A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.

At The Ballet is the rise and fall of a Prima ballerina.

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of a cook, he extracts an egg as large as the hat itself. As soon as he sets this egg on the table there appears a tiny dancing girl, full of life, as big as a baby's doll, and who performs on the table some beautiful stage dances. All of a sudden she increases to the size of a ordinary woman, and jumping on the floor she delights the audience with her turns. The juggler and the dancing girl disappear in the most extraordinary way.” (Méliès Catalog)

Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.

The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline and strenuous regimen needed to dance with a world-class company. Follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.

Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.

지금은 형편없지만 왕년의 명코미디언 칼베로는 어느날 가스 자살을 기도한 처녀 테리를 구해 자기방으로 데려가지만 마지막 소지품인 바이올린을 저당잡혀 그녀를 간호한다. 그녀는 무용수였으나 관절이 아파 춤을 출 수 없게된, 희망을 잃어버린 불행한 여자였다. 그런 테리에게 칼메로는 삶의 아름다움과 희망을 전해주고 테리는 이에 용기를 얻어 건강을 회복하게 된다. 칼레로는 테리의 부담을 덜어주기 위해서 그녀의 곁을 떠난다. 몇 년 뒤, 발레리나로 대성공을 거둔 테리는 떠돌이 악사가 된 칼 베로를 만나자 은인을 위해 자선공연을 한다. 공연은 대성공! 환호와 갈채를 뒤로 한 칼베로는 테리가 라임라이트를 받으며 춤을 추고 있는 동안 숨을 거둔다.