Critics have described Barry Jenkins Moonlight the stunning film awarded Best Picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday as a cinematic poem , in part because of its masterful score, stretches of silence, and piercing use of color.

A ballet-infused dance inspired by the motion picture, choreographed by Robert Battle of New Yorks Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, distills the movies poetic essence into two minutes of ecstatic movement.

Under a blue luminosity reminiscent of the moons glare, dancers Jamar Roberts, Christopher Taylor and Jeremy T. Villas move to the films rapturous score, created by Academy Award-nominated composer Nicholas Britell.

The three dancers represent the films protagonist, Chiron, at various phases of his life childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Their bodies communicate Chirons struggle to understand and accept himself, trembling back and forth between expression and suppression without saying a word.

In the video, directed by by Anna Rose Holmer of 2016s The Fits, the dazzling blue light illuminates the dancing figures, their every facial expression and undulating muscle telling a unique story. Like the film, Holmers short revels in the sensuality and sensitivity of the dancers, qualities which are often overlooked in stereotypical depictions of black men.

Bask in the glow of Moonlights excellence over and over again with the video above, courtesy of Nowness .