Library Databases with Dance Video
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On-demand streaming video service for educational institutions with thousands of documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines. More information on Kanopy access and use is available on this guide. - Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
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UCLA subscribes to several dozen distinct databases hosted by Alexander Street Press. This interface allows you to search across most of them. Click on "My Collections" to see the list of subscribed databases. - Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
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Video selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Also included documentaries by and about choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering 20th century dance styles. UCLA has access to Volumes I and II of this database. - Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
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DT+ includes streaming video of plays, dance, and performances produced on the contemporary British and American stage, interviews with professional practitioners and masterclasses on technique, study guides on classic works, and pedagogical guides for the classroom and theater production.
- Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Educational Streaming Site This link opens in a new window
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EAI's Educational Streaming Site is a subscription-access layer of the EAI Online Catalogue. Full-length streaming videos are available for selected artists, with an emphasis on video and media art, performance art, and experimental film. Artists and titles are added on an ongoing basis. The campus subscription to Electronic Arts Intermix was initially funded for the campus by the generous support of the UCLA Art Department. - Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to a high definition video library of performances, concerts, recitals, and documentaries in classical music, opera, dance, and jazz. - OntheBoards.tv This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video resource that includes high-quality, full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music, and other forms.
Video on the Internet
Selection of freely available online video collections.
- Remote Research and Dance: Streaming DanceGuide from NYPL with links to major internet sites featuring dance performance.
- 12 Places to Watch Dance OnlineApril 2020 article from the New York Times with links to freely available resources from dance companies and vendors, either via a trial or rotating videos.
- American Indian Film GalleryOnline collection of educational shorts, mostly dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. Films are arranged by tribal name.
- FolkstreamsOnline streaming documentary films on folk and roots cultures, many from the 1960s.
- Hemispheric Institute of the Americas Digital Video LibraryDigital project from NYU Libraries and NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that "provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance."
- Internet Archive: Moving Image ArchiveVast online library of freely available movies and videos, mostly public domain and ephemeral film.
- Jacob's Pillow Dance InteractiveFree video resource curated by America's longest running dance festival. Click ARTIST, GENRE, or ERA to find dance clips spanning from the 1930s to today.
- Library of Congress Digital Collections: Motion PicturesFrom the Library of Congress, online video from subject-specific collections, including early Edison films, animation, and rare vaudeville performances.
- Library of Congress YouTube ChannelOnline video from LoC collections and events, including early films from Edison and Westinghouse.
- National Film Board of Canada: Dance FilmsFreely available streaming titles from NSB related to dance, browable by category.
- numeridanse.tv: International Online Dance Video LibraryFree online dance videos, managed by a community of dance professionals and supported and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon.
- NYPL Digital Collections: Jerome Robbins Dance Division Moving Image ArchiveThis freely available collection of digitized videos contains materials from the Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, the Ronald K. Brown Video Archive, the Merce Cunningham Archive, and more.
- PBS Video OnlineSelected online video from PBS shows, including Frontline, The News Hour, American Experience, and Art: 21
- UbuWebUbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith.
- VimeoA video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos. You can search for names, keywords, etc. to find films on a topic.
- Walker Art Center StageInterviews and selected dance performance from the Walker Center's YouTube channel.
- YouTubeThe current giant of freely available online video, with the ability to share easily and add comments.
