Dance in Video: Volume IIOnline in Streaming Video

Dance in Video: Volume II Dance Performances Brought to Life in the Classroom

For students and scholars of dance, no learning experience can compare to witnessing the masters at work. Unfortunately, access to high-caliber live performances is often limited. Without exposure to a wide range of performances, classroom techniques and text study often fail to come to life for students. As a result, many important nuances are lost.

Learning in Action

Dance in Video: Volume II accommodates the needs of today’s dance students by pairing recorded performances from world-renowned dance companies with instructional videos from acclaimed teachers. The second volume expands upon the foundation built in Volume I, and showcases a new catalogue of dancers and partners including the Joffrey Ballet, John Jasperse Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Bavarian State Ballet, Royal Ballet of Cambodia, Kirov Ballet, and Compañía Nacional de Danza.

Students seeking to fine-tune specific techniques can explore instructional materials from the George Balanchine Foundation covering basic and advanced ballet techniques, including jumps, turns, pirouettes, barre work, pointe technique, and more.

Resources for Every Dance Program

To round out the study of dance, Volume II also incorporates interviews and documentaries featuring Trey McIntyre, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcy Bussell, Yvonne Meier, Saburo Teshigawara, and other key performers and choreographers.

Volume II will comprise 400 hours of video when complete. When paired with Dance in Video: Volume I, this resource provides more than 900 hours of dance video through one convenient, cross-searchable database. The diverse content supports a wide range of courses, from dance history and dance appreciation to choreography, dance composition, and improvisation.

Tools to Support Teaching and Learning

Key features of the resource include searchable, scrolling transcripts. Search for phrases like “pas de deux” or “Sanghyang dances” and find the exact point in the video where this is discussed. Faculty and students can create, annotate and share video clips, embed video into any website to maximize access, and show full-screen videos in class at streaming rates of up to 2.5mbps.

Dance in Video: Volume II is available to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights. All pricing is scaled to library budget. No special setup or software is required—all you need is an Internet browser. For more information, or to request a free trial or price quote, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com or visit www.alexanderstreet.com/products/music.

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