Research Guides: Dance 101: Introduction to Dance : Find Videos

Featured resource: Dance in Video

Films on Demand
How to link to videos, create playlists, organize favorites, and more.
VAST: Academic Video Online
How to create clips, link to videos, and playlists in VAST, including Counseling and Therapy in Video and Psychology Video Online.

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Start your search for videos here! The library catalog lists most of our DVD and streaming video titles.

You can also find videos that may be available through interlibrary loan; just change the drop-down menu to "Libraries Worldwide."

British Pathé
(c. 1890-1970) About 85,000 historic video clips and still photographs from the British Pathé Archive; contains newsreels, comedy shorts, and more. Items can be previewed for free.
Dance in Video
(1955 to present) Over 700 streaming videos, including performances and documentaries; covers ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
This collection is part of the Alexander Street Press video/audio collection.
Works best with Internet Explorer (version 7.0 or higher) and Firefox (version 3.0 or higher).
Requires Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher.
Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection
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Find documentaries and educational videos on many subjects. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning content.
Films on Demand offers many titles that are not easily discoverable in the Library's catalog. Search the provider's platform for best results.
Public Performance Rights are included with all Films on Demand titles for no charge viewings.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
(c. 1930 to present) An online exhibit providing brief excerpts of performances at Jacob's Pillow. Includes clips of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Bill T. Jones and more.

Kanopy
Kanopy streaming service offers movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic, and Independent films. Davidson College students, faculty, and staff have unmediated access to certain collections within the Kanopy service.
A one-year license is purchased upon the 4th view of a title for 30 seconds or longer, this license is $135. For a list of titles already licensed by Davidson, please see the Kanopy tab within the Video Research Guide. For mediated collections, faculty can request immediate purchase of required films for a course on the Kanopy platform.

NUMERIDANSE
Numeridanse.tv is the first free online dance video library which brings together thousands of hours of videos, the collections of national and international artists, teaching aids and thousands of written resources to promote an understanding of dance and its history. Managed by a community of dance professionals, it is supported and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon.
YouTube
Note: be sure to evaluate and verify the information in videos posted to YouTube. Also, be aware that some content may still be copyright-protected and therefore not in the public domain.

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