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Streaming from library databases

Dance in Video (Proquest)
Dance in Video contains five hundred hours of 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.
Routledge Performance Archive
Consists of streamed video and audio footage with relevant critical commentary. Includes interviews with key figures in theatre history and practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers; unique footage by legendary practitioners; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries. The video material spans more than fifty years.
Ethnographic Video Online (Proquest)
Ethnographic Video Online collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. It’s also a resource for the study of the discipline; scholars, teachers and students of anthropology can gain a sense of the discipline’s history and of its future direction.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase)
Films On Demand‘s platform provides every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study. It supplies 37,000 titles in 985 categories.

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There are a number of streaming video resources available for Dance research:

UBU Web: Dance
Largely modern dance related full-length videos. UbuWeb Dance is presented in partnership with and is largely curated by Contemporary Dance Video Database
NYPL Dance Division Moving Image Collection
A virtual space for dance enthusiasts and researchers alike to browse, search, compare, and comment on dance videos and images - then share their discoveries with others! While not all of the NYPL Dance Division Moving Image Archive collection is available offsite, large portions of the collection are available. To browse only freely available material, click the the "Exclude Location-Restricted Videos" button under the search box.
Dance Channel TV
An online video network devoted entirely to dance. Produces newscasts, human interest stories, and entertainment features.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
View online videos featuring performance excerpts from Jacob's Pillow from the 1930s to present.

JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
Call Number: UMDVD 10469 vols 1-30 and book supplement (2nd floor of the library)