LibGuides: .Dance Subject Guide: Video

Featured Videos

Pina: dance, dance, otherwise we are lost
Call Number: GV1786.T36 P563 2013 DVD
A tribute to the late innovative German choreographer, Pina Bausch. The film was originally planned as a collaboration between Wenders and Bausch and was in pre-production when she passed away in 2009. Wenders decided to continue the project as a tribute to her. In this film, the dancers of her company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, perform her most famous visionary creations.
Jerome Robbins: something to dance about
Call Number: GV1785.R52 J47 2009 DVD
ISBN: 0769788262
Planet B-boy
Call Number: GV1796.B74 P53 2008 DVD
The Spirit moves: a history of black social dance on film, 1900-1986
Call Number: GV1624.7.A34 S65 2008 DVD
How We Move: The Brain and Biomechanics
Call Number: Online streaming video - Films on Demand
This program describes how complex physical motion such as dancing requires sophisticated coordination between the body’s neural, muscular, and skeletal systems. How aging affects such coordination, and how new artificial limb technology enables movement, are important themes in the program.

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A web-based service for streaming educational videos distributed by Films Media Group. This vast archive currently includes more than 6,100 complete titles and 63,000 individual segments which may be viewed legally by current WOU students, faculty and staff anytime, anywhere. Videos are organized into comprehensive curriculum-based collections. View in Windows Media or Flash format.

Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center
Provides free access to live streaming video feeds of free music, dance and theater performances at The Kennedy Center daily at 6 pm Eastern time (3 pm Pacific time). Also provides a freely accessible and searchable video archive of past performances.
Bravo!FACT
Produces short films featuring Canadian performing artists.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
View online videos featuring performance excerpts from Jacob's Pillow from the 1930s to present.
You Tube: DanceChannelTV
An online video network devoted entirely to dance. Produces newscasts, human interest stories, and entertainment features.
American Masters | PBS
Provides information about performances aired as part of the PBS series American Masters, including a rotating selection of full episodes and special web exclusive clips available for viewing on demand.
Great Performances | PBS
Provides information about performances aired as part of the PBS series Great Performances, including a rotating selection of full episodes and special web exclusive clips available for viewing on demand.
Vimeo: Dance on Camera channel
Dance works especially made for the camera.

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