Subject Guides: Dance

Dance Resources on the Web

Getting Started | Ballet | Dance | Dance Dictionaires | Special Collections

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Getting Started:

Artslynx/Dance - This is an ideal place to start for an easy and useful overview of dance information on the Web. This is a comprehensive site for finding Web sites on dance. Go to http://www.artslynx.org/dance

@URL Internet Resources: A Dance Is Worth 10,000 Words - Find extensive links on all aspects of dance from this New Zealand-based site. Go to http://url.co.nz/arts/dance.html

Ballet:

Ballet.co.uk - This free online magazine includes interviews, current news, performances this week, and discussion postings. Links to dance reviews in the global press are updated daily. Go to http://www.ballet.co.uk

The Ballet.com - This site provides introductory pages with short articles on the dancer, techniques, and the history of ballet. Go to http://www.theballet.com

BalletCompanies.com - View more than 2,000 links to ballet and dance companies all over the world at this site created by Dick Heuff, former head of the audiovisual department of the Netherlands Dance Theatre. Go to http://www.balletcompanies.com

Criticaldance.com - This site feature articles, reviews, interviews, and portions from its forum discussions. Go to http://www.criticaldance.com

Culture Kiosque: Dance - Culture Kiosque covers international cultural events for North America and Europe. Go to http://www.culturekiosque.com/dance

Cyberdance: Ballet on the net - A collection of more than 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. Go to http://www.cyberdance.org

Dance:

The Dance Center Links - This is a well designed and easy-to-use comprehensive site with lists of ballet and contemporary dance companies, choreographic centers, dance presenters and performance listings, organizations, funding resources, mailing lists, schools, magazines, and more. Got to http://www.thedancecentre.ca

Dance Insider Online - The “Flash Reviews” on this site are one of its most popular features. The dance performance reviews are often posted the day after a show. The site also offers a free e-mail newsletter. Go to http://danceinsider.com

Dance Links at Dancer.com - Dance Links is one of the more well known dance sites on the Internet. Go to http://www.dancer.com/dance-links

Sapphire Swan Dance Directory - This directory provides links to more than 30 styles of dance from Aztec to zydeko. Each site provides a good collection of links on a particular style or specialized information about an area of dance. Go to http://www.sapphireswan.com/dance

Voice of Dance - This site offers current news, directories, some video clips, and an image gallery on ballet and modern dance. Go to http://www.voiceofdance.com

Dance Dictionaries:

American Ballet Theatre Ballet Dictionary - Go to http://www.abt.org/library/dictionary

Glossarist.com-Dance: Glossaries and Dance Dictionaries - Links to more than 30 glossaries of dance, including glossaries on ballet, flamenco, swing, Irish, and other types of dance. Go to http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/arts-culture/dance.asp

Special Collections:

American Ballet Theatre Repertory Archive - This site contains a comprehensive list of the American Ballet Theatre Company’s repertoire of performances going back to 1939. The information is arranged by ballet and by choreographer. There are entries for more than 350 ballets. Go to http://www.abt.org/library/archive

An American Ballroom Companion - From the American Memory Project and the Music Division at the Library of Congress, this site presents a collection of more than 200 social dance manuals from 1490 to 1920. Go to http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html

Dance Heritage Coalition - The Dance Heritage Coalition catalogs primary resources that document the history of dance. The searchable database helps searchers find more dance materials located in more than 50 archival collections. Go to http://danceheritage.org/index.htm

Dance Libraries, Archives, and Collections in the United States and Canada - From Preserve, Inc., this is a helpful online list of special library collections on dance. Go to http://www.preserve-inc.org/library.html

Dance Notation Bureau - This site works to advance the use of dance notation to preserve dances. Dance steps or scores are recorded and preserved using the symbol system called Labanotation which is described on the site. Go to http://www.dancenotation.org

Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - This collection is the largest archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance. Go to http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dan/dan.html