BANGALORE: The Goethe-Institut-Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB) will be screening a series of eight films on contemporary German dance titled 'Masters of Movement' in Bangalore. 'Masters of Movement' will run for three days at the Max Mueller Bhavan in Bangalore. Special reference to India will be by Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts artistic director Jayachandran Palazhy.

The first montage on December 7, 2007 titled ‘Introducing contemporary dance’ will showcase four 29 minute duration documentaries - ‘In Search of Dance - Pina Bausch's Other Theatre’, ‘Coffee with Pina’; ‘Dance-Theatre’; and ‘Johann Kresnik's Fighting Theatre of Dance’ . On December 8, the montage ‘The choreography of Sasha Waltz’ will comprise of the 60 minute documentary ‘Bodies’ and the 90 minute long ‘Dido & Aeneas’.

The 9th will see a film duet of the 100 minute long ‘Dido & Aeneas’ and the 70 minute long ‘Ladies and Gentlemen over 65’ under the sobriquet ‘Dance for the young and old’.

The documentaries run through the history of some of the German dance genres and choreography. Some of the films on display have been dubbed in English, whilst the rest will have English sub-titles.