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Encyclopedia BritannicaOver 75,000 articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica, including 23,000 biographies. Magazines and News Headlines: Get headlines from The New York Times, the BBC, the SBS Australian News Service, and full-text articles from more than 700 magazines and periodicals. Includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
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Dance Online: Dance in VideoDance in Video Series is the definitive video collection for the study of 20th century concert dance. It features performances from the most influential dancers and companies together with dozens of documentaries, interviews, and dance instruction videos to aid in the teaching of this nuanced art form.
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Jacob's Pillow Dance StreamAn ever-growing collection of full-length dance videos from the Jacob’s Pillow Festival Archives. Watch historic films, recent performances by top national and international dance companies working in a range of movement styles including contemporary, ballet, tap, and traditional forms, and hear interviews with artists and experts in the dance field.
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division Audio and Moving Image ArchiveThe New York Public Library's Dance Divison's digitized collection of moving image and audio recordings.
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KanopyAccess streaming movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films, and educational videos from Berklee. New requests go through the library.
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Medici.tvOver 1,000 HD videos of concerts, operas, ballets, archival performances, documentaries, master classes, and more. The recently added Medici Jazz Includes performances from members of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice team.
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Numeridanse.tvNumeridanse.tv is the first international dance video library online and completely free. Check out their videos about : hip hop dance, contemporary dance, ballet, ballroom dance, African dance, flamenco, Indian dance, butoh, jazz, etc.
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UbuWebUbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. It includes videos of dance performances.
DVDs at the Albert Alphin Library
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DVDs at the Albert Alphin LibraryCatalog search for dance DVDs available at the Albert Alphin Library. This might be helpful for browsing. Conduct your own search if you're looking for something specific.
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DVD Shelf at the Albert Alphin LibraryClick on "SHELVES" to see the list of featured danced DVDs for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Publications
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Magazines and Newspapers
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New York TimesSearch for articles in the New York Times. Coverage from 1995-present.
Databases
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Dance Online: Dance Studies CollectionCollection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials to support informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance. Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library.
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full TextThis database is the definitive research tool for theatre and dance studies. In addition to all the comprehensive indexing of the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (IBTD), it contains full text for the top performing arts journals. IBTD with Full Text contains author-supplied abstracts, author-supplied keywords and author affiliations. As experts in the subject area, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) continues indexing various titles for the database as well as coordinating international contributors.
Database & Catalog Lists
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"Dance" booksA catalog search for all books catalogued with the general "Dance" subject
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"Dance Criticism" booksA catalog search for all books catalogued with the subject "dance criticism"
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eBooks CollectionA search for "dance" e-books available from one of our providers.