Designed to support scholarly research and teaching across music, theatre, and dance, ProQuest One Performing Arts integrates foundational works — such as drama texts, performances, and scores — with archival material and critical secondary materials like journal articles, monographs, and reference resources. Covering everything from opera and ballet to street dance, and from Shakespeare to Broadway, it equips scholars with the materials needed for both rigorous academic inquiry and creative exploration.

ProQuest One Performing Arts provides:

• Dance Online Collection - Designed for scholars, performers, and educators, this resource supports all aspects of dance scholarship, combining academic study with video performances and instructional materials.

• Drama Texts Collection- Spanning over 300 years of dramatic writing, Drama Texts Collection allows users to explore connections between classic plays and lesser-known texts from a wide range of theatrical traditions.

• Music Online: Classical Scores Library Collection- A reliable and authoritative destination for digital scores of the classical canon and lesser-known contemporary works, enhancing music history, performance, composition, and theory teaching.

• Music Online: Listening Collection - A vast collection of over 14 million tracks offering access to iconic hits and rare, exclusive recordings across genres and historical periods provides authentic and immersive audio.

• Theatre Performance and Design - Offers students and scholars a wide range of plays, performance videos, audio plays, and behind-the-scenes content, enabling detailed analysis of dramatic arts, performance techniques, and production design.

• Music & Performing Arts Collection - Specialized content in music and performing arts through scholarly journals, trade publications, books, and reference materials, covering topics such as dance, theatre, opera, and popular music.

Use Cases for ProQuest One Performing Arts:

• Performance History: Support research on the creation, production, and critical analysis of theatre performances by providing access to primary materials such as video performances, drama texts, costume bibles, and archival documentation, enabling in-depth study on historical and contemporary performances, and allowing analysis of design elements (set, costume, lighting) and interpretation choices in different productions.
• Intellectual History: Support interdisciplinary research on the intellectual history of titles like Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by bringing together scores, audio recordings, ballet performances, and archival costume and set design materials, enabling scholars to trace the evolution of these works across different media and centuries of performance history.
• Dance Development: Support student development in dance performance through access to historical and contemporary instructional content in Dance Online Collection, including legacy instruction from Balanchine and modern technique training from elite instructors from Dancio, alongside performance examples in hip-hop, tap, and musical theatre dance from Broadway on Demand.
• In-depth Music Research: Support research on Baroque music by providing access to musical scores from Boosey & Hawkes as well as streaming audio recordings, enabling students and researchers to analyze stylistic differences, compositional techniques, and performance practices across Baroque composers and works.

ProQuest One Performing Arts is included in ProQuest Digital Collections