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  1. Siobhan Davies Replay Streaming

    Link
    http://www.siobhandaviesreplay.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    This freely available resource presents the materials and documentation associated with Siobhan Davies’ choreographies as a single online collection. Of particular interest are digitised videos of the filmed records of choreographies in rehearsal and in the studio. The search function allows the user to filter by media, (still, moving image, audio etc.), dance work, dance artist, musician and designer. The resource is the result of a collaboration between Coventry University and Siobhan Davies Dance which was funded by the AHRC. All the moving image content is streamed in flash video format

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  2. Merce Cunningham Trust Streaming

    Link
    https://www.mercecunningham.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    The Merce Cunningham Trust maintains a directory of film and video featuring the work of renowned choreographer. Mondays with Merce is a series of 16 freely available videos, each featuring Cunningham discussing an important aspect of his work, as well as interviews with dancers and collaborators who have worked with him. The site also features Dance Capsules, 86 of Merce Cunningham’s key works. Each capsule contains complete documentation of the work in question, including performance videos, sound recordings, lighting plots, décor images, costume designs, production notes, interviews with artistic personnel, and licensing information. Previews of this resource are freely available but users must subscribe to gain full access.

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  3. Jerome Robbins Dance Division - Audio and Video Streaming

    Link
    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/jerome-robbins-dance-division-audio-and-moving-image
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance. Chronicling the art of dance in all its manifestations — ballet, ethnic, modern, social, and folk. Over 3,000 items have been digitised including performances, panel discussions and interviews with practitioners. Searches can be undertaken by dancer, dance, choreographer, costume designer and composer in addition to date and title. The Division also houses the Rudolph Nureyev Collection, the world’s largest collection of films, video and audio material related to the dancer. The majority of titles can be viewed only on site; a small number is are available for streaming onsite. Material can be searched on New York Public Library’s online catalogue.

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  4. Irish Traditional Music Archive Streaming

    Link
    https://www.itma.ie/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    The Irish Traditional Music Archive – Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann – is a national reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. Established in 1987, the Archive is the first body to be exclusively concerned with the making of a comprehensive multimedia collection of materials – sound recordings, books and serials, sheet music and ballad sheets, photographs, videos and DVDs. It currently (as of 5/2015) holds over 30,000 commercial and non-commercial sound recordings, 23,000 books and serials, 12,000 photographs and negatives, 10,000 computer music engravings of melodies, 7,000 ballad sheets and items of sheet music, 2,500 programmes, 1,500 videotapes and DVDs, 400 music manuscripts, and other materials such as posters and flyers. Sound and visual material has been digitised and can be searched via the online catalogue.

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  5. Art Films Digital Streaming

    Link
    https://www.artfilms-digital.com/
    Subject
    Art, Dance, Design, Film Studies, Literature, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Artfilms-Digital is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media and Artfilms offering more than 5000 films for arts education and arts practitioners. Users can watch a preview but must take out a subscription to view the entire film. Films may also be purchased. Films can be searched by title or by category (e.g. Art History, Dance on Film, Performance Art). Catalogues arranged by theme can be downloaded as a pdf.

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  6. Smithsonian Center for Folklore and Culture Streaming

    Link
    https://folkways.si.edu/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Dance, Ethnology, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The somewhat cluttered site, and so not the easiest to navigate, hosts four podcasts and over 200 streamed videos including the music of Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and many bluegrass and jazz musicians. Several hundred sound recordings are available on the Smithsonian Folkways pages with excellent contextual and biographical information.

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  7. British Music Hall Society Streaming

    Link
    http://www.britishmusichallsociety.com/videos.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Web Links

    An enthusiasts site dedicated to preserving the history of music hall and variety. The site’s Video Clips section provides links to YouTube footage of musical hall artists performing including Hylda Baker with Cynthia, Jack Buchanan, George Formby, Max Miller and Wilson Keppel and Betty.

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  8. Ballet Rambert Streaming

    Link
    http://www.rambert.org.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    The Video Wall section of the website stream a selection of short ballets performed by the Company. Dances include Rambert Making Rooster a behind-the-scenes look at Rambert rehearsing Rooster, based on the music of the Rolling Stones.

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  9. American Variety Stage Streaming

    Link
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, Dance, Drama, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. The collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theatre playbills and programmes, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. [Figures taken from site 5/2015]. Searches can be undertaken by subject, author and title. The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage collection include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaux. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920; the majority are drawn from the Library’s extensive Paper Print Collection. The remaining films were produced by Hans A. Spanuth in Chicago from 1919 to 1920 for the series "Spanuth’s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies.

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  10. Martha Graham: Goddess of Contemporary Dance Streaming

    Link
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/23wzLfgrBtRJgBYxKDbcKZ0/contemporary-dance
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Dance
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    A BBC site celebrating the dancer and choreography, Martha Graham. Includes film featuring choreographer Wayne McGregor and Phoenix Dance artistic director Sharon Watson discussing the influence of Graham, a tribute from Paul RW Jackson, an archive clip of her dance, Lamentation performed in 1943, and a series of short films showing her techniques - illustrated by young dancers from Phoenix Dance Studio in Leeds. The film was made to co-incide with the BBC’s search for Young Dancer 2015.

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