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Drexel Library

Performing Arts Guide

Subject Guide for Performing Arts

Besides the streaming video resources listed below, the New York Public Library's Jerome Robbins Dance Division has created a guide with freely available dance resources. Check out the guide pages open resources and streaming dance.

New in Dance

Futures of Dance Studies

Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education : Case Studies on Humanizing Dance Pedagogy : Case Studies on Humanizing Dance Pedagogy

Igor Moiseyev Dance Company : Dancing Diplomats

Dance and Light: The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design

Broadway, balanchine, & beyond : a memoir

Meri and Her Life in Dance: Performing the World

Streaming Video

Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Watch 20th century dance productions and documentaries. Browse by choreographer, performer, or genre.
You may create a personal user account to save clips and playlists and to share content with other product subscribers.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
View performance excerpts from 1930s dance pioneers to today's artists.
Dance-Tech
Find videos on "the social network for innovators in motion."
UbuWeb Dance
Provided in partnership with + curated by Contemporary Dance Video Database.

Key Resources

The International Encyclopedia of Dance
Search this online version with articles covering all aspects of dance.

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Read abstracts and full-text of articles and books on all aspects of the performing arts.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers topics in sports and physical fitness, including dance.

Motion Bank
A free Forsythe Company project providing context for research into choreographic practice.
Accelerated Motion
A free dance literacy project combining primary source materials with dance scholarship.