“La Danse is the only film I know that successfully conveys what it feels like, physically, to be a dancer–to get inside a step or a phrase and to make it work on your own body–but also to live, as dancers do, absorbed in the repetitive, ritualized, and seemingly timeless practices of their art. None of this is monkish or self-sacrificing, as it is often portrayed. It is simply what dancers do: it is their work.”