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Databases

Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Lists articles from scholarly and popular periodicals covering dance, film, television, theater, opera, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling and more. Some journals include full text.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 2000 journals with full text for over 700 and for books and other publications. Topics covered include archaeology, art, dance, drama, ethnic and women's studies, history, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, religion.
America: History & Life (1964-present) This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. The Archive Journal Collection is included.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and more than 90,000 books covering the humanities and social sciences from nearly 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers.

Important Dance Journals

UVA Journal Finder
Find journals and articles by title or citation.
American Journal of Dance Therapy
This journal of the American Dance Therapy Association reports the latest findings in dance/movement therapy theory, research, and clinical practice. The American Journal of Dance Therapy (AJDT) presents original contributions, case material, reviews, and studies by leading educators and practitioners in the field.
Contact Quarterly
Contact Quarterly is an international journal of dance, improvisation, performance, and contemporary movement arts.
Dance Chronicle
Offering the best from both established dance historians and the new generation of dance scholars, this journal covers a wide variety of topics, including dance and music, theater, film, literature, painting, and aesthetics.
Dance Magazine
A look at today's exciting world of dance, color features of the most talked about companies and performers, dance news, reviews of performances, dance books, films and TV, and more.
Dance Research Journal
DRJ is a peer-reviewed premiere publication for dance scholarship of international reach and includes articles, book reviews, and lists books received. Published articles address dance history, theory, pedagogy, politics, science, ethnography, and intersections with cultural, gender, critical race, and diasporic studies among others.
The Drama Review
TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic, and political contexts. With an emphasis on the interdisciplinary, experimental, and avant-garde, the journal covers dance theater, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, and rituals in politics and everyday life.
International Journal of Screendance
This journal examines screendance in the context of contemporary cultural debates about interdisciplinarity, artistic agency, practice as theory, and curatorial practices. Critiques are grounded in pre-existing and yet to be articulated methodologies from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts, drawing on their practices, technologies, theories and philosophies.
Journal of Dance Education
Contains both scholarly and practical articles relevant to various populations within the dance community, including public schools K-12, private schools, private studios, higher education, and community education. Topics within the journal include but are not limited to: training of dancers, curriculum, pedagogy, teaching methodology, best practices, standards, assessment, dance administration, collaboration, creativity, dance advocacy and social justice issues.
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
PAJ explores innovative work in theatre, performance art, dance, video, writing, technology, sound, and music, bringing together all live arts in thoughtful cultural dialogue. Issues include critical essays, artists’ writings, interviews, plays, drawings and notations, with extended coverage of performance, festivals, and books.
Performance Research
Performance Research is a specialist journal that aims to promote a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in the expanding field of performance. Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope, its emphasis is on contemporary performance arts within changing cultures.
Writings on Dance
Writings on Dance is a journal of analysis, commentary, theory of the moving body, committed to supporting alternative practices in dance and other arts through documentation, critical reflection, and commentary. It is primarily a journal by and for artists.

Dance Media

Library Databases with Dance Video

Bloomsbury Video Library This link opens in a new window
Access to masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews. Artfilms streams thousands of videos from top artists and producers.
Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Dance productions and documentaries covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance in the 20th century. Additional titles will be added.
Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
Patrons using Google Chrome must have the newest version of the Chrome browser in order to continue watching content on Digital Theatre+.
Digital Theatre+ collaborates with over 50 world-class theatre companies, industry associations, practitioners, teachers, examination boards and scholars to capture and curate live performance in stunning quality. The database also brings a range of insights from behind the scenes and educational resources to support study at every level.
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. The constantly growing collection meets the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools. From the epic to the monologue; ensemble to one-person plays; comedy to tragedy; the historical to the contemporary; and from the highly political to the profoundly personal, there is plenty to discover.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Jacob’s Pillow is a National Historic Landmark, a National Medal of Arts recipient, and home to America’s longest running dance festival. Each year thousands of people from across the U.S. and around the globe experience the Festival with more than 50 dance companies and 200 free performances, talks, and events. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive is an ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.
Jerome Robbins Dance Division: Audio and Moving Image Archive
Free access to video and audio recordings held in the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded, Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, Dance Theater Workshop Video Archive, Victor Jessen Video Archive, National Dance Institute Archive, PS 122 Archive, Merce Cunningham Archive, and David Gordon Archive.

OntheboardsTV This link opens in a new window
OntheBoards.tv offers high-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.

Numeridanse
Numeridanse offers free access to filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, and dance videos. Numeridanse is headed and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse, Lyon, and offers access to butoh, classical ballet, neo-classical ballet, baroque, Indian, African, flamenco, contemporary, traditional dances, hip-hop, tango, jazz, circus arts, performance, etc.
Streaming Video at UVA
The library provides access to more than 75,000 licensed streaming titles.

Library Databases with Music

American Song This link opens in a new window
Country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel and shape note singing.
Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Over 50,000 recordings of classical music. Search or browse by composer, performer, instrument, period, etc. Included with more classical, jazz and world music in Music Online.
Jazz Discography Online This link opens in a new window
A fully searchable online version of Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. Search for jazz recordings by bandleader, musician, tune or record label.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Large collection of classical and world music from the Naxos and Marco Polo labels. Recordings plus descriptive information.NOTE: 1) Please logout at the end of your session. 2) Bookmarks won't work unless "default.asp" is removed from the end of the URL.
Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
World music from Smithsonian Folkways and other labels and from African and South Asian ethnomusicological collections. Included with more classical, jazz and world music in Music Online.

Places to find Music on the Internet

Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. Every MP3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era.
Free Online Music Resources Guide
Guide to freely-available music-related resources for both performers and scholars.

Find Digital Images

ARTStor This link opens in a new window
Images of world art from all periods, including paintings, drawings, prints, historic photographs, architecture and design.

American Vaudeville Museum Archive
Browse more than 4,321 items and 13 collections in the digital American Vaudeville Museum Archive to learn more about how this popular form of entertainment helped shape American Popular culture we know today.
Digital Public Library of America
DPLA Images lets you search the Digital Public Library of America, a collection of millions of cultural heritage objects from libraries, archives, and museums across the country.
Flickr Commons
A subset of Flickr images that are in the public domain or published with a Creative Commons copyright, which allows them to be cited and reused.
Global Performing Arts Database
Includes descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress has extensive collections in theatre and dance history. Use the drop-down to search by type of material.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
This archive contains many primary sources related to theatre and dance history in New York.
Wikimedia Commons
A site where you can find images that are in the public domain or published with a Creative Commons copyright, which allows them to be cited and reused.

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