THE DANCE MUSEUM VIDEO LIBRARY

The Video Library contains about 3,000 video tapes, searchable in a database. Playback is based on three monitors, each with two sets of headphones. Video tapes cannot be copied and are not available for home loan.

For opening hours and phone number, go to About Dansmuseet in the menu.

Librarian
Tel.: +46-8-441 76 52, fax: +46-8-20 06 02,
e-mail: info@dansmuseet.se

The video collection
The Dance Museum has been systematically collecting video cassettes of dance in every form since the beginning of the 1980s.

The contents include examples of classical ballet – everything from Bournonville and Petipa to Balanchine – and of modern dance from Sweden and the rest of the world. Pioneers like Graham and Humphrey are presented side by side with Örjan Andersson. There are also many tapes illustrating non-European dance, e.g. Indian, Chinese, Japanese and African.

Rarities include the films shot by Rolf de Maré, the Museum's founder, and Claire Holt during their travels in the Indonesian islands in 1938. Scenes include a transvestite dance from the Celebes and a wedding dance from Sumatra. The Dance Museum archives also contain René Clair's much-debated Entr'acte, the surrealist film made for the Ballets Suédois in Paris in 1924.

Since the mid-80s the Museum has also been making its own documentations of Swedish choreographic works, offering video documentation free of charge to dance groups outside the permanent institutions.