Dance in Film · 2018
Girl (2018)
A determined teenager pursues a professional ballet career while transitioning, in Lukas Dhont’s acclaimed and unflinching Belgian drama.
Girl is a 2018 dance feature film centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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The dance sequences in Girl
3 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Individual pointework catch-up lesson
Classical BalletDanced by Victor Polster; Marie-Louise Wilderijckx
The contrast between Lara's tentative pointework and the coach's firm encouragement after the fall.
An individual lesson turns pointe technique into observable dramatic evidence: Lara is late to pointework, slips and falls, and is encouraged by the demanding coach rather than instantly mastering the movement.
Not currently available to stream; timestamp is for reference. No edition-specific timestamp or legitimate clip was located. Prime Video's directly opened page said the 2018 film was currently unavailable on 2026-08-13; its separate regional listing was not treated as confirmed U.S. access. SeeingDance identifies the onscreen coach as Belgian choreographer Marie-Louise Wilderijckx, but the source does not assign her choreography credit for this sequence, so the choreographer field is blank.
Opening blue-clad ensemble ballet class
Classical BalletDanced by Victor Polster; ballet-school student ensemble · Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Lara moving within the blue-clad ensemble and the concentrated competition for casting places.
The opening embeds Lara inside a demanding classical-ballet class: the camera follows blue-clad classmates spinning and darting while the studio sequence establishes technique, comparison, and the pressure of earning a place in the school show.
Not currently available to stream; timestamp is for reference. No edition-specific timestamp or legitimate clip was located. Prime Video's directly opened page said the 2018 film was currently unavailable on 2026-08-13; its separate regional listing was not treated as confirmed U.S. access. Cannes identifies Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as the production's choreographer and says the dance group rehearsed the film choreography for three months.
Stage rehearsal and collapse
Classical BalletDanced by Victor Polster; ballet-school student ensemble
Lara collapsing mid-rehearsal after the film's sustained attention to pointework, bloodied feet, and casting pressure.
The rehearsal makes ballet's physical cost narratively explicit: Lara keeps pushing through the school production process until she collapses, linking performance ambition to the accumulating strain documented elsewhere in the film.
Not currently available to stream; timestamp is for reference. No edition-specific timestamp or legitimate clip was located. Prime Video's directly opened page said the 2018 film was currently unavailable on 2026-08-13; its separate regional listing was not treated as confirmed U.S. access. Sources support the mid-rehearsal collapse and the film-level choreography credit, but they do not isolate a choreographer for this specific rehearsal, so that field is blank.
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