This guide is intended to help you find resources for researching Dance theory, practice, and history; find performances to watch; and properly give credit to sources you use through citation.
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Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library.
11 million audio tracks*, 2,500 hours of video, 1.4 million pages of scores, and 500,000+ pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals, comprising the largest and most comprehensive online offering of in-copyright audio and video performances and scores available anywhere. Broad-ranging materials include videos of live performances, audio recordings, instructional films, previously unpublished works from acclaimed playwrights, performance posters and playbills, video interviews, and choreography not seen since the time of its original performance.
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It includes the following collections:
Music Online: Listening
Music Video Collection
Music Reference Collection
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century
Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume I
Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume II
Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection
Offers interdisciplinary content including approximately 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials.
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