Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL)
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Description
The HIDVL is a unique collection of videos of theater and performance art productions throughout the Americas. Works include experimental and collective theater, political, feminist and queer performance, interviews, among other works. The searchable database also includes a collection of artist profiles with biographies and bibliographies for further reading.
Help
None.
User tools and features
Searchable by genre, subject and geography.
Dates covered
Unknown.
Updating frequency
Continual.
Sources
Videos.
Type of coverage
Streaming video.
Print counterpart or
related resources
None.
Producer/content provider
Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics/NYU Libraries
Vendor/electronic presentation provider
New York University Libraries
Supplementary Subject(s)