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SEARCH - There are three ways to traverse the
archive.
(1) Group/genre search:
retrieve video performances based on kinds of performance
and the teams that perform them.
(2) Unstructured
text search: perform keyword search on six kinds of
categorical description: location of performance; occasion or festival; name of performer(s); characters represented; name of dance; name of tune played; general comments.
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Search using unstructured text:
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For Advanced Search Options, Click Here
(Some
general search terms: Morris; Annual Festivals; Longsword;
Processions; Rapper; Ceremony; Clog; Parades)
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(3) Summary
knowledge:
explore selected archive themes.
The Digital Video Research Archive is a research initiative built on the work of Anthony G. Barrand and Francisco J. Ricardo, Ph.D. (UNI '99) at Boston University.
Its foundation is a unique thirty-year chronological record of change and non-change of dance movement and accompaniment-style through aging and generational replacement of dancers.
This library comprises several thousand performances whose material is searchable through a simple but multilayered interface intended to support both basic search and more complex hermeneutic research in this area.
Read below for more
information
>> About the Collection
>> Technical Architecture of the DVRA (PDF)
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