Librarians' Internet Indexhttp://www.lii.org/
Links are selected and evaluated by librarians. Just type your words in the search box and go.
This page is the Web-only portion of the library guide for dance. For dance-related print resources in the library (and there are a lot) and subject-heading links to the library catalog please see the other part of this guide.
Below are just a few dance-related sites that may be of interest to the University of the Arts community.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
http://www.alvinailey.org/
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
"The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) is the largest organization of professionals supporting and assisting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion, and education and all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle." quoted from the home page
http://www.aahperd.org/aahperd/template.cfm
American Ballet Theatre's Online Dictionary
You must have the QuickTime plug-in installed and enabled to see the videos on this site.
Quicktime videos of ballet steps plus an online dictionary of terms from a reliable source! Very cool.
http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
From the Library of Congress' American Memory online collection: "An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another." Contains many video clips: see Dance Instruction Manuals: Video Directory.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
American Society of Capoeira and Arts from Brazil/Philadelphia Capoeira Arts Center
The capoeira studio of UArts School of Dance faculty member Adenilson Dos Santos.
http://www.phillycapoeira.com/
College and Research Libraries News: Internet Resources in Dance
A wide range of dance and dance-related sources selected and evaluated by librarians.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2002/december/dance.htm
ContactImprov.net
http://www.contactimprov.net/
criticaldance forum and ballet-dance magazine
http://www.ballet-dance.com/
Dance Magazine
http://www.dancemagazine.com/
Dance Teacher Magazine
http://www.dance-teacher.com/
Free to Dance: Resources
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/resources.html
From the Public Broadcasting Services' program, "Free to Dance","a three-part documentary that chronicles the crucial role that African-American choreographers and dancers have played in the development of modern dance as an American art form." A very nice set of links. Greenfield Library has the video set for this series: click here to see the library record for Free to Dance.
Librarians' Internet Index
http://www.lii.org/
Links are selected and evaluated by librarians. Just type your words in the search box and go.
National Dance Education Organization
http://www.ndeo.org
New York City Ballet
http://www.nycballet.com/
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html
Be sure to look at this Web site's selected Internet resources in dance.
Society of American Archivists: Performing Arts Roundtable
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/performart/index.html
"The Performing Arts Roundtable encourages the exchange of information on historical and contemporary documentation of music, dance, theater, motion pictures, and other performance media."--quoted from their mission statement. They provide a useful list of similar research resources.
Society of Dance History Scholars: Online Resources
http://www.sdhs.org/resources.html
Nice annotated collection of links.
The University of the Arts: School of Dance
http://www.uarts.edu/academics/cpa/dance.html
Voice of Dance
http://www.voiceofdance.com/
"Voice of Dance has been on the world wide web since 1996. Begun initially as a vehicle for dance enthusiasts to voice their opinions and thoughts about dance, it rapidly blossomed into a much broader resource, providing not just bulletin boards on which to post reviews and ideas or chats with dance celebrities, but also offering calendar listings for major dance companies around the world, quick review excerpts of dance performances from all over, as well as the latest news from the arts world." -- from About Us May 26, 2004.
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