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Dance

Lots of dance performances are available in different media formats including streaming video.

Tips for watching video online: Look for context. When and where was the work performed? Who are the performers? Is it the full work or an excerpt or preview? Use outside sources (website info, reviews, etc.) to round out the picture of what you're watching.

Video from UVM

In addition to the streaming video works found in Dance on Video, UVM also has many dance videos available on DVD and VHS.

Dance videos can be found by searching in CATQuest for keyword AND videorecording AND limiting results to materials in the Howe Media Library.

View list of Dance Videos

Videos on the Open Web

YouTube

The giant video sharing/social networking site.  A general search for "dance" will yield enormous, overly broad results.  Limit your searches to known artists, styles, performers, etc.  Supplementary research will provide (often) much-needed context for what you are seeing.

Vimeo

Used by lots of artists because of its support for higher resolution.  A good place to find experimental work.

Jacob's Pillow Interactive

A rich video database with excerpts of works performed at Jacob's Pillow from its inception in the 1930's through the present day.

Accelerated Motion

A beta project at Wesleyan University hosting texts, images, and video by dance artists including Martha Graham, Pearl Primus, Elizabeth Streb, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Artist/company websites are also good video sources.

Sample videos

She Loves Me by Edisa Weeks was performed at the Puffin Room in NYC in March of 2004. Dancers are Jenni Hong, Andrew Vaughn, and Edisa Weeks. Music is by Patsy Cline,Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, with text by Edisa Weeks. "She Loves Me seeks to understand the painful psychology of neonaticide.The piece is loosely based on Sandra Melnick who was accused of brutally disposing of her newborn daughter."

Tips for watching video online: Look for context. When and where was the work performed? Who are the performers? Is it the full work or an excerpt or preview? Use outside sources (website info, reviews, etc.) to round out the picture of what you're watching.