Research Guides: Dance: Videos

Online Streaming Dance Videos

OntheBoards.tv This link opens in a new window
Streaming video of cutting edge, contemporary dance, performance art, and other movement-based performances that defy categorization. All content is unique.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive This link opens in a new window
Watch a regularly changing array of original Jacob's Pillow dance productions, workshops, and master classes, including access to Jacob's Pillow on Demand and "Inside the Pillow Lab" shows.
Users must register for a Jacob's Pillow account with their UCI email address here: https://stream.jacobspillow.org/cpp-benefits. After creating your account, you can then login to your account and watch resources. Doesn't require VPN.
Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Streaming video 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.
Bloomsbury Video Library: Dance This link opens in a new window
Streaming video that primarily focuses on ballet contemporary dance, with a secondary focus on dance from Asian, Pacific Islands, and Australia.
Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
Streaming video of concerts, operas, ballets, music documentaries, and masterclasses with globally famous musicians. Content is regularly updated as it normally includes performances from European music summer festivals and annual music competitions.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy provides access to contemporary and classic feature films and documentaries, from the major Hollywood studios as well as independent and international filmmakers.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) This link opens in a new window
A resource for video and media art. Electronic Arts Intermix's core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 4,000 new and historical video works by artists. The collection spans the mid-1960s to the present.
Ethnographic Video Online. Volume I & II This link opens in a new window
A visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers, and select feature films.

Numeridanse.tv
Has over 1700 freely available, high quality dance videos. Many are European focused. Some documentaries and educational resources available as well.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
The online archive of many of the performances performed at Jacob's Pillow throughout its history. Includes performances by many monumental dancers and companies of the 20th century from all genres of dance.
New York Public Library Digital Library
Has recently begun to digitize and make many of their unique dance films available online previously only available by visiting the Jerome Robbins Dance Division reading room. Alert - some videos may only be viewed from computers in NYPL. These are indicated with a lock symbol. They can be excluded from your results by toggling the "Exclude Location-Restricted Videos" button.
Dance-Tech TV
Offers unique videos focused on the intersection of dance and technology, both performances and talks.
Dance Channel TV
Provides a couple hundred unique and high quality dance videos. Offerings focus on ballet, a Meet the Artist series, and dance documentaries.

Find DVDs in UCI Libraries

UCI Libraries holds thousands of DVDs (and even some VHS!), many of which are related to dance and other performing arts. Most all DVDs can be checked out by any UCI student or faculty. You can find them with UC Library Search.

After you've searched, look at the left side of the screen and use the Resource Type limiter to narrow your search to videos (see image below). This will bring up both online streaming videos and physical videos in the Libraries' Multimedia Resources Center.