The French national audiovisual institute INA has recently launched EnScènes, a freely accessible online platform tracing 70 years of the history of performing arts (theatre, dance, mime, circus, opera, movement and all kinds of spectacle vivant) through moving image and sound.

The site contains some 1,000 contextualised videos of performances and about 60 interviews (including an exclusive 3-hour discussion with Robert Lepage) as well as themed collections and tours such as’Performing and staging of Shakespeare‘; and more besides. All clips are accompanied by extensive transcripts.