Guides: Dance: Performance on Video

Video recordings of productions on DVD

The library has a large collection of DVDs which can be searched via the Library website.

Use the search box to search for the particular dance company, ballet, dance form, or choreographer. If you are coming up with lots of articles, it can help to add the word 'DVD' to your search.

Dance Online - Dance in Video

The Library has many amazing resources for Dance - Dance Online: Dance in Video is one of many.

Rambert Plus

World-renowned dance company, Rambert, has its own media hub - Rambert Plus - with dance films, behind the scenes videos and interviews, podcasts, online classes and more...

Note: Rambert Plus is free to join but you need to create an account to access content.

Rambert - Never to Forget
Never to Forget is a tribute to health and social care workers who have died of Covid-19.

Streaming video

BoB National (Box of Broadcasts) This link opens in a new window
Off-air recording and media archive of both radio and television programmes. Note that transcripts are searchable, making it easy to pinpoint relevant material.
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Dance Online: 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.
Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
This gradually growing database with high quality films of leading theatre productions includes the English National Ballet.
Routledge Performance Archive This link opens in a new window
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A collection of audio-material, along with commentaries, on a variety dance and performance subjects, including some practitioners, and dance movements. Browse subject areas, practitioners, and commentaries to get a sense of the content of the archive.

Video on the web

Dance Heritage Coalition: Dance Treasures
A growing collection of essays with valuable bibliographies for books, articles, online resources and moving images for choreographers, dancers and companies (scroll down the page to see the list of subjects with entries).
ECLAP
The European Collected Library of Artistic Performance is a vast online archive for all the performing arts in Europe. Look at the Help Search under Search for tips on searching the archive.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow (America’s longest running dance festival) from the 1930s to today.
New York Public Library - Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Jerome Robbins Dance Division's digitized moving image and audio recordings (selected videos are free to view).