The Spirit Moves

*8.0

Status

Released

Production

Dancetime Publications

Aired

1987-12-17

The Spirit Moves

A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986 is a documentary film by Mura Dehn chronicling the evolution of African-American social dance throughout most of the 20th century. In its original form it consists of nearly six hours of rare archival footage shot over the course of thirty years.