Dance

This collection from the Library of Congress features over 200 social dance manuals as well as 75 video clips that illustrate portions of the manuals.

Previously known as Dance Heritage Coalition's Dance Preservation and Digitization Project, this collection now resides at USC. It "preserves culturally significant recordings that document global and U.S. dance traditions, creative work by outstanding choreographers and performers, and performances that helped to advance the art form." Content continues to be added, but not all content is publicly available.

Free video content from America's longest running dance festival, covering the 1930's to present.

This collection from NYPL's Jerome Robbins Dance Division contains video and audio of dance performances.

Resource for videos of avant-garde dance performances.

Freely available collection of dance on film.

Collection of dance videos featuring a wide range of styles and forms. Includes interviews, performances, demonstrations, and more.

This YouTube channel contains training information on the Labanotation system and a portion of their Notated Theatrical Dances Collection.

Video content from the trust that "preserves and maintain the integrity of the choreographic and other works of Merce Cunningham and Cunningham Technique."

The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago features videos of both dance performances and events on their Vimeo channel.

Collection of complete performances by a range of current choreographers.

Offers free access to videos of dance performances, documentaries, interviews and more. Available in both English and French.

Archive of recordings of African dance and related interviews. Some recordings may only be viewed on-site at NYPL's Library of the Performing Arts.

This site collects independently created documentaries about folk life in America and has a collection related to American folk dance.

Videos from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, which is "a post-modern dance company dedicated to the performance & preservation of the work of Founding Artistic Director & Choreographer, Trisha Brown."

Newsreel and documentary films stretching back to the early 1900's, including some coverage of dance. Example search terms: dance, dancer, ballet, choreography, swing, ballroom.

This project by New York Public Library and Core of Culture aims "to record and preserve the Kingdom of Bhutan’s disappearing dance traditions."

This series of videos from Steezy defines dance terminology and then demonstrates the terms with video clips of various artists performing the technique.

This guide from NYPL offers information on accessing performances, documentaries, and other streaming video content about dance.