Databases for Performance Videos
- On the BoardsOntheBoards.tv is a portal for viewing full-length dance performances and theatre productions. It functions as a streaming platform and as an archive for ground-breaking artistic projects and contemporary performances.
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowThe huge Academic Video Online site (also known by its initials, AVON; also called Alexander Street Video, because Alexander Street Video is included) delivers video titles on many subject areas including music, theatre, and dance -- there is a whole channel on performing arts!
It also includes access to "Dance Online: Dance in Video", a collection of over 900 hours of high-quality dance performances on streaming video. - Medici.tvStreaming access to thousands of classical music, opera, and dance videos; includes filmed musicals since the 1940s, filmed concerts, documentaries, masterclasses, and live broadcasts. Also contains synopses, casts, and performers' biographies.
- Naxos Video LibraryStreaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries; includes full-length videos. You can create custom clips, edit them and add them to individual playlists. Search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival. Libretto/text is included when available. Please note: Limited to two simultaneous users.
- Films on DemandWe subscribe to the World Cinema Collection. Films on Demand is also host to several individual streaming files, including our Appalshop collection. We no longer have access to the wider Films on Demand Collection.
- Dance Online: Dance in Video from Alexander Street Press1300 hours of streaming video content covering the scope of 20th and 21st century dance.
The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies worldwide, including Agnes de Mille, Mark Morris, Lestor Horton, Anna Sokolow, Anthony Tudor, Jose Limon, Paul Draper, Chuck Green, the Joffrey Ballet, John Jasperse Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Bavarian State Ballet, Royal Ballet of Cambodia, Kirov Ballet, and Compañía Nacional de Danza.
Websites
- Dance USADance/USA sustains and advances professional dance by addressing the needs, concerns, and interests of artists, administrators, and organizations. By providing national leadership and services, Dance/USA enhances the infrastructure for dance creation and distribution, education, and dissemination of information.
- American Ballroom CompanionDance instruction manuals ca. 1490-1920
- OntheBoardsWebsite that delivers full-length, high quality contemporary performance films to your TV, desktop or mobile device.
Online video resources for non-western dance
In addition to lots and lots of ephemeral YouTube videos you can search for by keywords, here are some more curated, freely-available-online resources for non-western dance:
- Numeridanse
This site includes mostly western performances (it is based in France), but there is a map feature you can use to find performances from around the world. - Contemporary Dance Directory
A world-wide directory of contemporary dance companies and choreographers, organized by country and city. Links out to many sites with sample videos. - Digital Archive of Performing Arts
In Korean. Includes videos, images, and sound files for Korean theatre, dance, music, exhibitions, and other resources for performing arts. - NYPL Digital Collections - Bhutan Dance Project
The Bhutan Dance Project Video Archive contains 652 videos that were collected and created by Core Culture, 2005-2007. - Asian Traditional Theatre & Dance
by Jukka O. Miettinen (Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, 2018)
This site is a great OER-type resource for non-western performing arts that covers countries across south, southeast, and east Asia.
