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Videos at Salem

Databases

Thousands of films and film excerpts may be accessed through Films on Demand, accessible through Salem Libraries.

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Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

DVDs/Videos at Salem

Salem still retains some dance titles on DVD and VHS (VHS player available in FAC Library). In addition, many movies featuring dance are available for checkout from either the Gramley Film Collection (ask for at Circulation Desk) or through the Rudolph Fine Arts Library in the Elberson Fine Arts Center on campus. Samples of holdings include:

The Power of Dance
Call Number: GV1600 .D36 1993 Disk 1
ISBN: 9780780013391
VHS. "This program examines the work of ballet legend Jacques D'Amboise at his N.Y. National Dance Institute. Includes interviews with Russian dancers, Indian gurus, American song-and-dance men, and other international dancers."
New Worlds, New Forms
Call Number: GV1600 .D36 1993 DISK 5
VHS. "This program examines the heritage that enslaved Africans brought to North and South America via dance. From the Samba in Rio to the Lindy -hop in Harlem, cultural collisions have shaped the popular dances of today."
Ballet Russes
Call Number: GV1786 .B3 B35 2005
DVD. "This is the story of an extraordinary merger of Russian, American, European, and Latin American dancers who collaborated with composers, choreographers, and designers to transform the face of ballet for generations to come."
The JVC Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music & Dance of Africa (3 vols.)
Call Number: (FAC Library) ML3760 .J83 1996
VHS. 3 volumes.
"A three-part educational project that focuses on local performance styles to present the folk music and dance traditions of Africa."
Martha Graham: Dance on Film
Call Number: GV1785 .G7 M37 2007
DVD. Two discs.
Disc one: A dancer's world; Disc two: Martha Graham: The dancer revealed.
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Call Number: (FAC Library) MT130 .S77 S777 2006
DVD. Background and live performance.