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Welcome to the Research Guide for Dance. This guide is intended to familiarize you with the various resources available to you through Rowan University Libraries and on the internet for research and exploration in dance. If you need more in-depth help or guidance, feel free to use the Ask a Librarian service or schedule a research consultation.
The Performing Arts Collection can be found on the Second Floor of Campbell Library. Here, you will find all of the DVDs, books, and CDs about Dance, plus a reference and circulation desk for the performing arts.
This guide, the guides linked below, and many of the library databasesprovide access to lots of materials that you cannot find for free online.
Contains over 600 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Video library of concerts, operas, ballets and other classical music performances.
Medici.tv boasts a collection of 1500 classical music videos: concerts, operas, ballets, archives, documentaries, artist profiles and educational programs, among others. This wealth of programs makes Medici.tv the largest online classical music video library in the world. Each year, several hundred new programs are added to its catalog, including films about the current music scene, and archives from the 1950s.
Formerly the International Index to the Performing Arts, contains journal articles for the study of the performing arts.
Provides indexing, detailed abstracts, and full text for articles covering a wide range of subjects in the performing arts, including dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, comedy, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and television, from 1864 to the present. (ProQuest)