Dance

Guide from NYPL with links to major internet sites featuring dance performance.

April 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.

Online collection of educational shorts, mostly dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. Films are arranged by tribal name.

Online streaming documentary films on folk and roots cultures, many from the 1960s.

Digital 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."

Vast online library of freely available movies and videos, mostly public domain and ephemeral film.

Free 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.

From the Library of Congress, online video from subject-specific collections, including early Edison films, animation, and rare vaudeville performances.

Online video from LoC collections and events, including early films from Edison and Westinghouse.

Freely available streaming titles from NSB related to dance, browable by category.

Free online dance videos, managed by a community of dance professionals and supported and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon.

This 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.

Selected online video from PBS shows, including Frontline, The News Hour, American Experience, and Art: 21

UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith.

A 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.

Interviews and selected dance performance from the Walker Center's YouTube channel.

The current giant of freely available online video, with the ability to share easily and add comments.