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Dance Research

Dance Resources Online

 

American Memory - video clips

Run by the Library of Congress, the American Memory project include video clips of dance.

Dance Interactive - Jacob's Pillow

Dance Heritage - 100 treasures

The Dance Heritage Coalition includes clips of America's Dance Treasures

YouTube

YouTube will have a lot of clips and even full videos. YouTube is very strict about copyright so if something is up there that shouldn't they usually take it down.

Merce Cunningham Dance Capsules

Limited access to 86 dance videos choreographed by Merce Cunningham

Numeridanse

Free access to over 4,000 dance performances representing classical, contemporary, and world dance.

Ailey All Access

Streaming selected performances.

Dance Channel TV

Full length performances, documentaries, video guides, and interviews with dancers and choreographers.

NYPL Moving Image Archive,

part of New York Public Library's amazing dance holdings, is digitizing an ever-increasing number of videos from its physical collections. Many of the videos cannot be watched online due to rights restrictions, but you can select to search items that are not "locationally restricted."