Dance in Video

Dance in Video is the definitive video collection for the study of 20th Century concert dance, featuring the most influential performers and companies together with dozens of documentaries, interviews, and dance instruction videos—comprising 500 hours of high-caliber content.

A comprehensive video collection

Dance in Video provides coverage in breadth and depth for modern dance forms, and is relevant to dance history, dance analysis, dance instruction:

• Overview of 20th Century concert dance, including the forerunners and pioneers of modern dance, covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisation
• Invaluable resource as dance is an inherently visual medium – content includes coaching sessions and recreations of past choreographers works.

The greatest dance companies

Here are some of the great dance companies featured in Dance in Video:

Great performances
Here are a sample of the great dance performances featured in Dance in Video:

• Points in Space (Merce Cunningham Dance Company, directed by Elliot Caplan)
• Highlights from Dance Theatre of Harlem
• An Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
• Strange Fish (DV8 Physical Theatre)
• Silence is the End of our Song (Royal Danish Ballet)
• Intimate Pages (Rambert Dance Company)
• Swansong (English National Ballet)
• Peter and the Wolf (The Royal Ballet School)
• Rainbow Round My Shoulder (Donald McKayle)
• 15 Days of Dance (American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, directed by Elliot Caplan)

The greatest artists
Here are a sample of the influential artists/companies featured in Dance in Video:

• Agnes de Mille
• Mark Morris
• Lestor Horton
• Anna Sokolow
• Anthony Tudor
• Jose Limon
• Paul Draper
• Chuck Green

Rare and unique video
Dance in Video includes the following rare and unique video footage:

• Archival footage from the collections of Merce Cunningham Dance Company
• Archival footage from the George Balanchine Interpreters Archive and Archive of Lost Choreography
• Historical footage from Creative Arts Television, featuring dance performances from 1950s/1960s CBS television productions

Detailed indexing of scenes/roles
Detailed indexing at movement/scene level allows precise search and retrieval, including ability to browse by role to find performances of key roles in dance performances.

Easily find and compare all scenes featuring the role of Cendrillon (Cinderella) from Cinderella

Powerful teaching resources
Our collections include a playlist functionality to enable educators to create, annotate and share thematic playlists of recordings to support their teaching needs.

Example playlists based around key musical concepts
Our customers actively use playlists to support teaching

Key features of Dance in Video

• Mobile Access: stream to your mobile device / smartphone
• Transcripts: Available by the end of 2012!  Searchable, scrolling transcripts*.
• Index: video thumbnails provide a visual table of contents for scanning hours of video in seconds
• Advanced Search: additional options include role, genre, instrument, ensemble, time period, venue and date of recording
• Liner Notes: available where possible
• Custom Video Clips: Users can create, annotate and share clips from all video tracks.
• Custom Playlists: create, annotate and share playlists, including ability to embed in 3^rd party websites.
• Permanent URLs: all videos, clips and playlists can be cited on permanent URLs.
• Cross-search: video can be cross-searched alongside our related audio, video, scores and reference material to provide a powerful tool for music research.

*transcripts typically available within 6-8 weeks of title going live