# Researching Women and Gender at the Library: Discovering Dance Collections

Drawing on the Library’s special collections on celebrated American women choreographers, dance curator Libby Smigel discusses women, politics and anti-terpsichorean prejudice from the 1930s through the 1950s. Smigel juxtaposes evidence of these women’s performance artistry with the fears found in their still-redacted Depression- and McCarthy-era FBI files.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 53 min
- By: Smigel, Libby
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-9884/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-9884?play=1)