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a dancer became paraplegic but danced again as a puppet

The Red Shoes
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The Red Shoes

2000

A young girl tries to became a dancer, and in doing so she finds love.

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A Little Princess
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A Little Princess

1995

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.

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A Little Princess
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A Little Princess

2019

Mal-soon is a tough granny in a shanty town in Busan. In front of her, 12-year-old Gong-ju appears with her baby sister Jin-ju on her back. Gong-ju claims that she is the daughter of Mal-soon’s runaway daughter. Mal-soon’s peaceful life becomes a mess with these little strangers, but Mal-soon doesn’t feel bad living with them.

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018

When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.

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The Nutcracker
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The Nutcracker

2010

In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

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Mao’s Last Dancer
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Mao’s Last Dancer

2009

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

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The Dancer
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The Dancer

2016

A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.

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I Wish We Were Dancers
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I Wish We Were Dancers

2011

A girl with multiple sclerosis, confined to a wheelchair, has vivid dreams in which she is a ballerina

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Danceable

Danceable

2022

Three dancers with disabilities find freedom through movement.

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Flesh Ballet

Flesh Ballet

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A quadruple amputee and a seamstress metamorphose into a giant flesh mound. Made by the arts collective ‘Are we Artists or Cops?’ to develop an art film exploring how modern society interprets disability. An in-studio experiment involving collaborative spontaneity and in-the-moment creative decision making with an improvised jazz soundtrack.

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