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archival photograph of the Metropolitan Opera (New York City) in 1966

AUDIO & VIDEO

Theater

New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts

Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (over 4000 recordings)

Victoria & Albert Museum

National Video Archive of Performance, 1992- (approx. 400 recordings)

Dance

New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image (723 videos)
Merce Cunningham Video Archive, 1960-2008 (742 videos)
National Dance Institute Video Archive, 1980-2010 (541 videos)
Dance on Video Archive (116 videos)

Performance Art & Experimental Theater

New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts

PS 122 Video Archive

British Library

Experimental Theatre and Live Art, Sound Archive (approx. 600 recordings)

Live Art Development Agency

Live Art Research Collection (over 8,000 items)

University of Bristol Theatre Collection

Arts Council England Live Art and Performance Archive (approx. 220 videos)
National Review of Live Art archive (139 boxes and 34 TB of digital files, mostly video footage)
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Header image of the Metropolitan Opera House (1966) sourced from the Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey. No known restrictions on images created by the U.S. government.