Library Guides: Theatre & Dance: Images & Videos

Video Collections

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today,
plus new illustrated essays.
Jerome Robbins Dance Division: Audio and Moving Image Archive
Free access to video and audio recordings held in the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded, Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, Dance Theater Workshop Video Archive, Victor Jessen Video Archive, National Dance Institute Archive, PS 122 Archive, Merce Cunningham Archive, and David Gordon Archive.
Numeridanse
Numeridanse offers free access to filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, and dance videos. Numeridanse is headed and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse, Lyon, and offers access to butoh, classical ballet, neo-classical ballet, baroque, Indian, African, flamenco, contemporary, traditional dances, hip-hop, tango, jazz, circus arts, performance, etc.

Dance Online: Dance in Video
Provides streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
Films on Demand
A streaming video database that offers over 30,000 titles. The videos cover a variety of academic subjects, from producers such as BBC, PBS, Meridian, National Geographic, and more. Links can be shared through email, integrated into WebCampus, or viewed in the classroom.
OnTheBoards.TV
Provides streaming video performances by international innovators in contemporary dance, theater, and music.
Theatre in Video, Volume I & Volume II
Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

American Vaudeville Museum Archive
Browse more than 4,321 items and 13 collections in the digital American Vaudeville Museum Archive to learn more about how this popular form of entertainment helped shape American Popular culture we know today.

ARTstor
Digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Global Performing Arts Database
Includes descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress has extensive collections in theatre and dance history. Use the drop-down to search by type of material.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
This archive documents contains many primary sources related to theatre and dance history in New York.