Dance

Choose Advanced Search and select "Entertainment Review" under Document Type. Type the name of the choreographer, dance company, performer, or title of the dance (i.e. Swan Lake) into the search box and search.

Choose Advanced Search and select "Entertainment Review" under Document Type. Search the name of the choreographer, dance company, performer, or title of the dance.

Lexis Library contains an archive of a wide range of UK newspapers. The start date for individual titles varies--some date back to the mid-1980's, while some, like the Telegraph, only begin coverage in 2000. To find reviews log into the news section of Lexis (see video for instructions). Type the word "review" in one search box, and the dance title, dance company, or choreographer for which you are searching into another box. You can also try this search without including the word review, or by selecting, in the dropdown menu "in the headline" next to your research term.

For reviews (published between 1851 and 2012) go to the advanced search screen. You can put your search term in the box at the top, then scroll down and tick "review" in the Document Type box.

Full text access to major international newspapers including foreign language sources. To find reviews log into the news section of Nexis. Type the word "review" in one search box, and the dance title, dance company, or choreographer for which you are searching into another box. You can also try this search without including the word review, or by selecting, in the dropdown menu "in the headline" next to your research term.

The Times Digital Archive runs from 1785 to 1985, so is a good place to search for historical reviews of dance. Select the advanced search mode, and then type the dance title (enclosed in quotation marks, if more than one word) or the choreographer into the search field then tick the review box below the search fields. To narrow your results, you can use the pulldown menu next to the search field to "article title" so that you will only get the results where your search term appears in the headline.

Search for reviews from the advanced search screen.