Research Guides: Dance: Find Performance Videos & Recordings

Find Dance Video Databases

Routledge Performance Archive This link opens in a new window
Dance is included in this database of performance videos and interviews.
Many videos have transcripts, and some videos include contextual information and short bibliographies.
Language: English
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Ballet is the featured dance form in this streaming video collections that also includes music, opera, live concerts,and theater performances.
Subtitles/librettos available for some videos.
Language: English, Italian, German, French, other European languages
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore a variety of videos across a breadth of subject areas, including international films, documentaries, archival films, educational titles, and performances.
Content type: Documentaries, performances, interviews, newsreels, primary sources
Includes the Mater Academic Collection and the World Cinema Collection.
Language: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Fox Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Watch feature films from a variety of genres, such as dramas, comedies, science fiction, documentaries, and literary adaptions.
Content type: Videos
Language: English

PBS Arts Videos
Rebroadcasts of PBS dance-related presentation.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Dance videos filmed at Jacob's Pillow from the 1930s to the present.
Merce Cunningham Dance Capsules
Limited access to 86 dance videos choreographed by Merce Cunningham
Numeridanse
Free access to over 4,000 dance performances representing classical, contemporary, and world dance.
UbuWeb Dance
Works of over 70 contemporary choreographers
Ailey All Access
Streaming selected performances.
Dance Channel TV
Full length performances, documentaries, video guides, and interviews with dancers and choreographers.
Folk Streams: Dance
Independently made documentaries related to American Folklife. Included is a small collection of dance and music focused films that are available for free.

Find Audio Databases

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Includes over 80,000 tracks of classical, jazz, folk, and world music.
Also contains reference resources such as a music dictionary and analyses of well-known pieces. No individual account is required but can be created to create playlists and sign into the mobile app. Mobile app includes offline listening!
Language: English
Keywords: NML
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
All types of music from across the world as well as natural sounds.
Create a free user account to create custom playlists and audio clips.
Language: English
Keywords: Music Online
DRAM This link opens in a new window
Wide variety of American music including music composed for dance.
Can browse by artist, composer, label, and instrumentation.
Language: English

Borrow DVDs & CDs

The Claremont Colleges Library circulates many dance videos and CDs. To find these videos and CDs search the library catalog :

by name of dancer, dance company, or composer as AUTHOR, i.e., Jones, Bill T., or
by TITLE of work, i. e., Coppelia, or
by SUBJECT for works about particular dances or topics, i. e. Modern dance

THEN limit FORMAT to DVD Video or Music CD and LOCATION to Claremont Colleges Libraries. This will limit your search to only Claremont owned videos or compact discs.

Claremont College users can request videos and CDs that the library does not own from other libraries through Resource Sharing.