Dance has always been shaped by relations—between bodies, generations, and histories.

This evening brings together three films, spanning more than a century of cinematic practice, that work through dance as a difficult expression of kinship and family creation, intergenerational memory, and inherited gestures. 
As a part of a troubling series of late nineteenth-century fantasy films on a baby-selling trade for the wealthy, pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy presents a dancing fairyplucking new lives from a cabbage patch in the bizarre early film La Fée aux Choux (1900). In Relatives (1989), directed by Julie Dash, improvisational dancer Ishmael Houston-Jones carries his complaining mother Pauline into a space of performance that he will share with her. He explores the family photo as a relic of lost time and life stories from which he must nonetheless account for his own existence. Shown for the first time in Berlin, Tatyana Tenenbaum’s Everything You Have is Yours (2025) centers on the artistic research of dancer Hadar Ahuvia, who grew up learning folk dances practiced by her Israeli family in the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn Amer. The film captures the hearts of a generation grappling with state sponsored violence, through themes of embodiment, cultural erasure and spiritual accountability. Within it, a web of artistic portraits emerges— Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City grappling with the questions of what we inherit and what we embody to carry forward.