LibGuides: Dance: Home

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This guide is designed to help LMU students and faculty find and access resources in Dance. Explore the information in this guide to discover useful places to search for background information, books, articles, and more.

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Most Useful Places to Search: Dance

Dance Film Collections

Academic Video Online
Video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. Includes PBS and BroadwayHD titles.
Dance Online
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Streaming video collection from ProQuest containing dance productions and documentaries about ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Includes materials from 1901-present.
Digital Theatre Plus
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Streaming video database containing high-quality films of leading theatre productions. Includes dance performances from the 20th century to present.
Docuseek 2
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General streaming video collection of documentaries. Enter "Dance" into the keyword search for choreographer documentaries, performance films, and more.
Drama Online
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Primary source collection containing full text plays, film and audio adaptations, and image collections. LMU has access to selected content in this database. Dance materials can be viewed by exploring by Genres and Forms.
Films on Demand
General streaming video collection containing educational films. Video may be used for classroom teaching, research, presentations, and educational non-commercial multimedia projects for use in educational institutions, provided no admission or other fees are charged for public viewing. Dance materials are found by exploring by Subject.
HistoryMakers Digital Archive
This multidisciplinary oral history provides high-quality video content, fully searchable transcripts, and unique stories from historically significant African American choreographers, dancers, artistic directors, and more. Filtering stories to "ArtMaker" to find dance materials.
Human Kinetics Dance Technique
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Contains videos and audio clips alongside ebooks and images on dance instruction
On the Boards
A website providing HD-quality contemporary performance films available for streaming. Filmed at the On the Boards Center, as well as peer theaters across the United States, the performances present a snapshot of the newest works by current leaders in dance, theater, and music.

Dance Databases

Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Theatre Arts, Film Television and Media Studies
Description: Primary source collection containing full text plays, film and audio adaptations, and image collections. LMU has access to selected content in this database.
Contents: Primary Sources
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Theatre Arts, Dance
Description: Research database from EBSCOhost containing full text.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Books; Book Reviews

Library Research Awards

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Undergraduate Library Research Award (ULRA)

Research Award Winners

Best Dance Papers

Dance Department Best Papers

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