Dance online. Dance in video
- Language
- English. In English with some videos containing a variety of other languages.
- Publication
- Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, [2008?]-
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (streaming video files)
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Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Alexander Street Press, issuing body.
Contents/Summary
- Partial contents
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- Dance online. Dance in video, volume I
- Dance online. Dance in video, volume II.
- Summary
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Searchable database containing 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, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role, ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. Database users may create their own custom playlists and video clips.
- Summary
- Dance in Video I & II has 900+ hours of video of complete dance performances, documentaries and interviews. These are intended to provide a foundation for the study of dance in many forms: modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Companies include the Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Kirov Ballet, Compañía Nacional de Danza and Merce Cunningham. Interviews and documentaries with performers and choreographers include Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine, Trey McIntyre and Saburo Teshigawara.
Subjects
- Subjects
- Dance > 20th century.
- Dance > Production and direction > History > 20th century.
- Dance.
- Dance > Production and direction.
- Genre
- Filmed dance.
- Televised dance.
- Internet videos.
- Video recordings.
- Film clips.
- Nonfiction films.
- History.
- Database topics
- Film and Media Studies
- Other
Bibliographic information
- Beginning date
- 2008
- Title variation
- DAIV
- Welcome to Dance in video <July 20, 2009-June 22, 2014>
- Former title
- Dance in video <Jan. 27, 2015>
- Vol/date range
- Began in 2008?
- In
- Part of the database: Music & performing arts. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press
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