In this revelatory new documentary, director Reiner E. Moritz poses the question: How has the media influenced dance in the twentieth century and vice versa? A History of Dance on Screen contains an impressive amount of archive footage featuring the greatest dancers and choreographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, framed by in-depth interviews with great personalities of the contemporary dance scene. Featuring extensive archive material with Anna Pavlova, Maya Plisetskaya and Isadora Duncan, Red Astaire and Moira Shearer, Choreographies by Martha Graham and Sasha Waltz, as well as interviews and comments by John Neumeier, Matthew Bourne and The Ballet Boyz. By Frances Bucher