Notes
In English with some videos containing a variety of other languages.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Oct. 21, 2016).
Part of the database: Music & performing arts. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press
Summary
Dance online contains streaming video files related to 20th century dance, including documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. 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. 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.