ProQuest One Performing Arts provides a comprehensive range of multi-media content, integrating foundational works—such as drama texts, performances, and scores—with archival material and critical secondary materials including journal articles, monographs, and reference resources. Covering everything from opera and ballet to street dance, and from Shakespeare to Broadway, it equips scholars with the materials needed for both rigorous academic inquiry and creative exploration as a multidisciplinary resource designed to support scholarly research and teaching across music, theatre, and dance.
Integrating and connecting classical music scores, dance videos, historical performance recordings, theatrical productions, and drama texts from across eras, ProQuest One Performing Arts supports both theoretical and practical applications through instructional reference works, video lectures, and presentations on theatrical techniques, performance practices, design, technical artistry, and historical significance.
Developed with leading providers including the Royal National Theatre, Broadway on Demand, Smithsonian Folkways, Boosey & Hawkes, and Universal Music Group, it brings together authoritative content that supports the study of performance practice, creative process, and cultural expression across time and place.
Key Benefits
Theoretical And Practical Applications
Supports both scholarly inquiry and artistic practice through instructional reference works, video lectures, and materials on theatrical techniques, performance practices, design, and technical artistry.
Top Providers
Features content from leading partners including the Royal National Theatre, Boosey & Hawkes, Broadway on Demand, Balanchine Archives, Qwest TV, Smithsonian Folkways, and Universal Music Group.
Multi-Format Content
Integrates classical music scores, dance videos, historical performance recordings, theatrical productions, drama texts, and scholarly resources to support teaching and research across eras.
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Streaming Audio tracks
Pages of primary and secondary sources
Pages of classical scores
Streaming videos
Included Content / Coverage
Dance videos; drama texts; classical music scores; streaming audio; theatrical productions; performance recordings; scholarly journals; monographs; reference works; instructional videos; archival materials.
Key Themes Include
Music scholarship, Theatre studies, Dance studies, Performance practice, Creative process, Instructional support, Multidisciplinary research, Teaching and learning.
ProQuest One Performing Arts Includes the Following Subscriptions
Dance Online Collection
Dance Online Collection supports all aspects of dance scholarship, combining academic study with video performances and instructional materials. Featuring video performances, instructional materials, interviews, books, periodicals, and extensive archival materials across dance genres, these materials support focused explorations into dance history, technique, and cultural context.
Read moreDrama Texts Collection
Extensive collection of dramatic texts supporting research and teaching in theatre, literature, and performance, with plays from classic works to lesser-known and global texts across historical and contemporary theatrical traditions and movements worldwide.
Read moreMusic Online: Classical Scores Library Collection
Reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon and discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. Music Online: Classical Scores Library Collection brings together more than 2 million+ pages of musical scores spanning major genres and time periods from the Medieval Period to the 21st century.
Read moreMusic Online: Listening Collection
Music Online: Listening Collection provides institutions streaming access to millions of tracks across classical, jazz, world, American, popular, and historic recordings, supporting the teaching and research of music with broad global coverage and ongoing monthly growth.
Read moreMusic & Performing Arts Collection
The Music & Performing Arts Collection provides a cost-effective and efficient way for libraries to gain access to specialist databases for scholars and students researching music and the performing arts.
Read moreTheatre Performance and Design Collection
Theatre Performance & Design Collection is a rich international resource for studying all aspects of theatre through filmed stage performances, audio dramas, design archives, and instructional materials.
Read moreQwest TV EDU
From bebop to hip-hop, Qwest TV EDU provides access to a vast and growing archive of Black music and global sounds through live performances, documentaries, and interviews spanning wide-ranging musical genres from around the world.
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Content Format
Multimedia
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Highlighted Subjects
Music
Theatre
Dance
Performance studies
Choreography
Dramatic literature
Stagecraft and design
Music history
Type of Content
Streaming video
Streaming audio
Full-text drama works
Music scores
Scholarly journals
Monographs
Reference works
Platform
Access on the Alexander Street video platform
Also available on ProQuest platform
Territorial Rights
Worldwide with regional content restrictions
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