LibGuides: Dance: Find Dance Videos

Dance Videos

Library subscriptions to Dance video resources:

Bloomsbury Video Library This link opens in a new window
Features filmed performances, fiction films, documentaries, instructional videos, and more. Includes access to the full Arts and Humanities Collection, which includes 2,000 films from the Dance, Film and Media, History and Culture, Music , and Visual and Applied Arts Collections. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1940-present.
Human Kinetics Library: Dance Technique This link opens in a new window
More than 500 videos and 850 audio clips alongside ebooks and images related to dance, covering topics such as hip-hop, ballet, jazz, tap, Mexican folkloric, and modern dance; choreography; and anatomy and kinesiology. Terms of Use. Coverage: 2013-present.
Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Terms of Use.

Freely available online dance resources:

Numeridanse.tv
Numeridanse is a multimedia dance platform. It offers free access to a unique video base: filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, dance videos. Every single genre, style and form is showcased here: butoh, classical ballet, neo-classical ballet, baroque, Indian, African, flamenco, contemporary, traditional dances, hip-hop, tango, jazz, circus arts, performance, etc.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive is an ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.
NYPL - Jerome Robbins Dance Division Audio and Moving Image Archive
Explore the Dance Division's digitized moving image and audio recordings. Make sure to toggle the the "Exclude Location-Restricted Videos" box
Dance Channel TV
Several hundred freely available videos. Focus is on ballet

Other library streaming video subscriptions:

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy This link opens in a new window
An anatomical teaching tool that provides an understanding of the real human body and the mechanics of body movement through direct video recordings of real human anatomic specimens.
Terms of Use.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Streaming films and documentaries from 30+ major studios. Our subscription provides the 1,000 most-requested videos on the platform (updated July 2023). Faculty may create accounts to request additional titles per the Streaming Video Policy. | How to create an instructor account and request films.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Streaming films and documentaries from Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, The Great Courses, and Psychotherapy.net. Faculty may log in and request additional films on https://www.kanopy.com/search to be added per the Streaming Video Policy. | Terms of Use. Coverage: 1894-present.