ResearchGuides: Dance Research: Visual Sources

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ArenaPAL - Performing Arts Images: Dance
Fred Fehl Dance Collection
Consists of images of the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, photographed by Fred Fehl (1906–1995).
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Images of other companies will be added as digitization is completed.
The New York Public Library Digital Collection: Dance in Photographs and Prints
Pioneers of Chinese Dance
A digital photograph collection designed to make the history of twentieth-century Chinese dance accessible to international researchers. Includes 1,512 images and descriptions.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive - an Ever-growing Collection of Dance Videos Filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to Today
NYPL Digital Collections: Jerome Robbins Dance Division Audio and Moving Image Archive
A virtual space for dance enthusiasts and researchers alike to browse, search, compare, and comment on dance videos and images.
Stage24
The virtual stage of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. Here you can watch and listen to performances whenever you like.

An American Ballroom Companion - Dance Instruction Manuals ca. 1490-1920
A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress plus 75 video clips that illustrate portions of those manuals.

Elävä arkisto
Elävä arkisto ("Living Archive") is an online service of the Finnish Broadcasting Company, including ca. 1,600 hours of videos and ca. 1,200 hours sound recordings from ca. 21,000 radio and television programs.
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The AV material is accompanied by ca. 12,000 articles of background information.

Naxos Video Library
More than 1,800 full-length videos of live classical music concerts, operas, ballets and documentaries from the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists as well as films featuring movie celebrities are available on demand on Naxos Video Library. Use with Helmet library card only. more...

Öppet arkiv (in Swedish)
Här är samlat ett brett utbud av program ur den svenska tv-historien. Vid starten i 2013 hade sajten cirka 200 olika programtitlar, ett stort antal episoder och runt 500 härliga timmar. Det långsiktiga målet för Öppet arkiv är mer än 10 000 timmar.

More online video collections listed in Film Research subject guide.