Streaming Video
In addition to the books and recordings housed at the music and dance library, library annex, and Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell library users have access to databases of streaming video recordings. See our Streaming Video page for access to streaming feature films and documentaries in various disciplines. See the databases listed on this page for access to dance-specific content.
Streaming Video and Media Online (Dance and Performing Arts)
- Music & Performing Arts (Alexander Street)Cross-searches audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content from all Alexander Street Press music databases.
- Bloomsbury Video LibraryFeaturing content from filmed performances and fiction films to documentaries and instructional videos, Bloomsbury Video Library has been designed and curated with academic libraries in mind. Bloomsbury Video Library launches with the Arts and Humanities Collection (formerly known as Artfilms). With an international range of content across the visual arts and performing arts, film, history, and more, this collection features exclusive indie films and shorts, avant-garde performances, interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners, documentaries on an international range of themes, traditions, and historical figures, and much more.
- medici.tvSince its official launch in May 2008, www.medici.tv has gained international recognition, bringing together a community of music and arts lovers. Building on the success of webcasts from the Verbier Festival in 2007, www.medici.tv has since offered high-definition webcasts from many other leading festivals, including Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Denis, Aspen, Glyndebourne, and Lucerne, as well as from such music venues as the Opera National de Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, Cite de la Musique, and Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Milan's famed La Scala. Many operas and concerts performed by the world's top-flight artists and orchestras have been webcast both as live events and later as video-on-demand (VOD).
- Met Opera on DemandMet Opera on Demand delivers instant access to past performances of the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series, as well as classic video and audio performances, including radio broadcasts dating back to 1936.
- Global Performing Arts Database (GLOPAD)GloPAD is an archived multimedia, multilingual, database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts around the world. All GloPAD records include authoritative, detailed descriptions of the digital objects, in addition to information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.