Archive for category Dance'

David Guetta feat. Ne-Yo & Akon ‘Play Hard’ by Andreas Nilsson

Raconteur of the surreal, Andreas Nilsson, lends his rather unique hands to the big French House music of David Guetta and from the very outset you can tell this story isn’t heading a gritty, realist direction. Queue a vast array of colourful characters and outfits all taking part in the technicolour Dance Rodeo you’ve never [...]

Quadron ‘Hey Love’ by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Having shown himself as a young master of the mini-drama for Rhye and When Saints Go Machine, Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen makes a diversion into pop performance for Danish duo Quadron’s Hey Love. Daniel documents singer Coco Maja Karshoj dancing the video away with several debonair men, each bringing their own signature dance style, while the singer [...]

Broke feat MØ ‘Let The Youth Go Mad’ by Ian Isak Ploug Ochoa

I think it’s fair to say that the young lead in this promo for Broke’s Let The Youth Go Mad isn’t too worried about the long term effects of smoking and drinking. And whilst drinking leftovers in your pants is something I’m sure we can all relate to, it turns out that he is, in [...]

Pixel ‘Call Me’ by Ola Martin Fjeld

This marvellous video for Norwegian jazz combo Pixel’s Call Me is a comic-drama directed by Ola Martin Fjeld set in the prosaic surroundings of a caravan park in mid-Norway in late summer. But a surprising dance performance by one family for their fellow holiday-makers lays bare the tensions between mother and daughter. And that, in [...]

‘The Estate’ by Caswell Coggins

Caswell Coggins’s second dance film for the Channel 4 arts strand Random Acts is The Estate, a mesmerising piece choreographed and featuring contemporary dance group the BalletBoyz which skilfully brings the laws of nature smoothly into a brutally urban setting. It’s shot by Deane Thrussell, with music scored by the director’s regular collaborator MEANRED. “I [...]

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros ‘Man On Fire’ by Brady Corbet

Filmed on location in New York between May 12 and 14th 2012, the video for Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros’ Man On Fire is a documentary of dance and movement taking place at community venues around the city, from elite cheerleaders to double dutch skippers, their coaches and their moms – and, finally, on [...]