Library Services: Dance: Finding Books and Videos

Streaming Video Collections

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
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An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacobs Pillow from the 1930s to today, plus multi-media essays and a related podcast.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Stream
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Full-length dance videos from the Jacobs Pillow Archives, including the Ted Shawn archival collection.
Academic Video Online: Premium
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A comprehensive video collection covering a wide range of subjects.
Dance in Video
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Contains hundreds of hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Theatre in Video
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Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the worlds leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries.
Films on Demand
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A streaming video service that provides users with access to hundreds of videos related to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Users can watch, mark, and share videos.

Book Search

Search the library's Discovery catalog for print books and ebooks.

Ebooks

Ebook Central
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Search the Ebook Central database for full-text, downloadable ebooks.

Google Books

Google Books will provide you with partial access to many books published in the past few decades and full access to certain titles that are in the public domain.

Reading a book preview can be a good way to decide if a book you're interested in is actually relevant to your research.

If you find a promising book preview and would like to read the whole book, you can request it from Library Services through Interlibrary Loan.

New Books

Here are just a few of the library's most recent book purchases on dance topics. Read ebooks online and visit the Learning Commons to check out print books!