Library & Learning Commons: Classical Ballet: Video of Performances

Streaming Video

Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of classical music, opera and dance performances. Includes over 3,500 musical works filmed from the 1940s to present; over 2,000 films, including artist portraits, documentaries and master classes; and access to over 100 live streaming performances from the world’s most prestigious venues.
Dance Online This link opens in a new window
Over five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
Music and Dance Online This link opens in a new window
Delivers the largest, most diverse catalog of music content in the world for students, scholars, and patrons of the arts. The multimedia resource features works from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.
Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases across dance, drama, film, and music including streaming media, scripts, sheet music, and reference texts.
George Balanchine YouTube Channel This link opens in a new window
The GBF's collection of interviews is designed to document as closely as possible Mr. Balanchine’s original intent as he choreographed his ballets.
Films on Demand Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of almost 40,000 streaming videos on many subjects as well as documentaries, music and indie films.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
More than 68,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Bloomsbury Video Library: Arts and Humanities Collection This link opens in a new window
Bloomsbury Video Library brings together award-winning, international film and videos across a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects in the Arts and Humanities.

Blu-ray, DVD, and Video in the Catalog

Use LibrarySearch to find our video recordings collection. Two ways to look exclusively at video holdings:

Click Advanced Search to the right of the search box. Enter your keywords, click the drop down for Material Type, select Video/Film.
OR: Enter your search terms in the main search box on the library homepage, then use the left hand filter options: Resource Type > Video.

Blu-rays and DVDs are available for check out on the 4th floor from our Media Library.

Below are some examples of video you can check out of the library or stream online.

Ballet Performances

An Evening with the Royal Ballet by Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, and others
Call Number: 4th Floor: Blu-ray/DVD/Video Collection - Ask At Desk ; DVD-369
Publication Date: 1963, 2001
Program presents a gala evening of classical ballet featuring the legendary team of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn.
Lang Lang : the Chopin dance project by Lang Lang, Stanton Welch, others
Call Number: 4th Floor: Blu-ray/DVD/Video Collection - Ask At Desk ; DVD-8917
Publication Date: 2015
In November 2013, Lang Lang and the internationally acclaimed choreographer Stanton Welch teamed up to explore a new collaboration by combining a live piano recital with a live ballet performance. The result is The Chopin Dance Project.
Jewels by Balanchine, music by Fauré, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky : With the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra by Brian Large, George Balanchine
Call Number: Streaming through Medici.tv
Publication Date: 2006
Choreographed by George Balanchine in 1967, Jewels is considered to be the first great abstract work of classical ballet. The performance here includes Mariinksy's star dancers Ulyana Lopatkina, Igor Zelensky and Andrian Fadeyev, together with Tugan Sokhiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra.

Pro Tip

If you don't have a DVD player of your own, you can check one out from the 1st Floor Circulation Desk. Alternatively, you can utilize the 4th floor Listening/Viewing Room with 15 playback stations or reserve time in the Library's Media Lab.