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The Alexander Street Press product, Dance in Video, is a video streaming service for dance research now available through the Cook Library web page as well as through ResearchPort.  The database has a three simultaneous user limit, which includes both on and off campus access.  System Requirements (browsers, bandwith, etc) are listed on the database’s home page.  The database currently contains 150 dance videos with a target collection of 250.  Clips include documentaries, performances, interviews, and instructional films.  Genres covered range from ballet to contemporary, and advanced search indexes allow for searching by performers, venues, companies, composers, choreographers, and work titles.  Sign in to become a registered user and create a free account which allows you to save films to a playlist and create your own personally designed clips from films for future use and to share with others.  Instructors can imbed a link to a flim or a clip to their Blackboard accounts for use by classes and add notes for students.  Personal preferences allow registered users to set playlists and clips to be kept private, shared with TU users, or available to all database users.  Altogether a nifty product – you will be lost for hours investigating the wealth of filmed material present.