Research Guides: Remote Research and Dance: Streaming Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will be streaming full length performances for free on their website. You can check the page linked above for updates and information on when to tune in.

Dance Channel TV

This site streams numerous videos for free, with some ads on the videos. There are full length performances, documentaries, video guides, and interviews with dancers and choreographers.

Folkstreams: Dance

Folkstreams is an eclectic source for independently made documentaries related to American Folklife. Included is a small collection of dance and music focused films that are available for free.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive

This site hosts a multitude of videos from the history of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Including early videos of Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers, to clips of the most recent festival.

Marquee.TV

Marquee.tv offers a 14 day free trial when signing up, and has a great offering of Dance, Theatre, and Opera from the United Kingdom. They are also premiering new offerings of full length operas and ballets every Saturday for the foreseeable future.

Metropolitan Opera

Every night during their closure the Metropolitan Opera is streaming an opera from their Live in HD series. These can be accessed through their website, or their Met Opera on demand app on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon streaming devices, and Samsung Smart TV.

Numeridanse

Numeridanse is a multimedia dance platform. It offers free access to a unique video base: filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, dance videos. Every single genre, style and form is showcased here: butoh, classical ballet, neo-classical ballet, baroque, Indian, African, flamenco, contemporary, traditional dances, hip-hop, tango, jazz, circus arts, performance, etc.

OntheBoards.TV

On the Boards is currently offering free and unlimited 48 hour rentals from their catalog through April. The instructions on how to use this can be found in this press release.

PlayBAC

The Baryshnikov Arts Center has a variety of archived videos available to view. There are clips as well as full performances available from now till an unspecified time.

Pointe Magazine

With many ballet companies creating online seasons, or sharing archive footage of past performances, Point Magazine has been maintaining a comprehensive list of what companies are posting, and where to find it.

Roulette

A comprehensive collection of nearly 4,000 concert listings with historic audio, video, posters, photos, press, and ephemera, of avant-garde music and interdisciplinary performance from New York’s “downtown” scene dating to 1978. Simply filter the collection by “dance” and “video” and you will find important and unique items available to you. Going to the "Roulette TV" is also a way to access a variety of performances and archived videos being livestreamed

Ubuweb Dance

While dance has long been a part of UbuWeb's film & video collection, it begs to have a section of its own. Like the rest of UbuWeb, there is a lot of crossover and perhaps moments of purposely curated eclecticism, hence our rather unorthodox mix of pure, art, and pop dance forms.

Upstreaming

Each Wednesday UPSTREAMING will release new content, including digital commissions and beloved performances from our archives. These programs reflect the Fisher Center’s mission to engage artists and audiences in the development and examination of artistic ideas, offering perspectives from the past and present, as well as visions of the future. Works featured each week will highlight a different aspect of the breadth of programming the Fisher Center offers, including weekly performances from the SummerScape Opera and BMF archives.

Vimeo

Vimeo has as wide a variety of videos as YouTube, and this includes performances from up and coming choreographers, as well as documentaries. There are many available for free, and more accessible behind their paywall. There are many great channels on Vimeo, and you can find a short list of some below.

Remote Research and Dance: Streaming Dance

Streaming Resources

YouTube Channels

YouTube Videos

Vimeo Channels

Streaming Sources