Dance Links:
Searching for individuals:
Dance Sites
- Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of
Arts & Cultural Journalism
Summary of arts news; links to sources.
- Artslynx International Dance Resources
Includes: bibliography, bios, competitions, dance artwork and videos, employment,
funding resources, health & safety, jobs, journals, libraries, magazines,
documentation (includes notation systems, software)
- artsnet
Center for Arts Management and Technology, a research, service and training
center in the Master of Arts Management Program: a joint offering of the College
of Fine Arts and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
phone: 412.268.8930
fax: 412.268.3590
email
- Arts Wire
Weekly arts news service maintained by NYFA: New York Foundation for the Arts
provides opportunities for individual artists and arts organizations, job
listings links to arts sites and links to Arts Wire member's sites
- CyberDance.org
CyberDance offers over 3500 links on ballet and modern dance. Thematic sections
include: colleges with dance programs, companies that offer dance-related
goods and services, summer programs, online dance news sites, sites that profile
those important persons in their respective field of ballet or modern dance,
list of dance web sites
- The Dance Centre
- Vancouver
Primary information and resource centre for dance in British Columbia, Canada.
With a membership of over 250, including more than thirty professional dance
companies, The Dance Centre provides a wide range of services to the dance
profession and interested members of the public, and works to raise the profile
of dance. We also manage the operations of the new Scotiabank Dance Centre
in downtown Vancouver.
- DanceUSA
Dance and Drill Team site with links to Accessories, Choreography, Fundraisers,
Music supply/sound editing Publications, Camps, Competition, Costumes, Leadership
Training, Organizations, Jobs, Video Photography, Uniforms.
co-maintained World Wide Web Virtual Library
- dancebot
World dance search engine intended for dancers. Look for contacts and work
- dancer.com On-Line Boutique
All About Pointe, Feet & Fitting Pointe Shoes, Health & Safety
- Dance Links
Excellent site dealing with: Ballet Companies, Dance Presenters &
Performance Listings
Dance Organizations, Coalitions, etc., Funding, Schools, Dancers, Dance Web
Indices, Dance Resources, Newsgroups, Dance Publications, Dance FAQs etc.,
University Dance
- EARS inc. Dance Resources
Links to: Administrative resources, Agents, Books, Choreography, Labanotation,
Supplies, Films/Videos, History - Research & Reference, Health - Medicine
& Physiology, Notation, Photography, Production Resources, Seminars & Workshops,
Technology, & Videographers
- Institute of Historical Dance Practice:(IHPD)
main objective is to research, preserve and perform social and theatrical
dances of Western Europe between 1450 and 1920.
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
This society seems to change their url; you may need to do an internet search
if you find I'm not keeping up with the changes.
Site includes membership, strike information, contracts, benefits, publications,
etc.
- UK Theatre Web - Dance
Search by show, venue, town, and county.
- Voice of Dance: Where Dance Lives
Funded by Grants for the Arts. Movement and dance-related materials. Includes
reviews and images.
- World Wide
Arts Resources, Corp. - Dance Index
A to Z index covering a variety of dance topics
Dance Library Collections
- American Ballroom Companion -- Library of Congress's American
Memory Project
Collection
of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress.
... 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.
Select texts to view by subject, author, title, or conceptual category.
Offered along with the collection are an overview of western social
dance and a selected bibliography.
- The Australian Dance Collection: a Directory of Resources
Index Australian dance resources available in major Australian
research collections.
- Cross-Cultural
Dance Resources: CCDR
Includes
the books and pamphlets of the late Eleanor King and the late Gertrude
Prokosch Kurath, both prominent in the fields of dance and dance
scholarship. The library is separated into two sections, that are
identified by the color of the book shelves: the Brown Library and
the White Library. The Brown Library is exclusively devoted to dance.
The White Library has sections that provide background materials
for the Brown Library - performance arts, folklore, myth and religion,
manufactured arts, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and ethnographic
materials.
- Dance Collection's Catalog
Since your
search is within the Dance Collection, you can use terms such as:
aesthetics or writing or criticism or cognitive learning
and your search focuses on dance and the term you used.
- DANCE HERITAGE COALITION: DHC
Focuses in
four areas: ACCESS to materials; the continuing DOCUMENTATION of
dance employing both traditional methods and developing technologies;
PRESERVATION of existing documentation; and EDUCATION regarding
methods, standards, and practice for access, documentation, and
preservation.
- Dance
Notation Bureau Library
Maintains
the world's most substantial collection of original Labanotated
dance scores. Along with the DNB-produced scores, the Library collects
and houses other materials needed to stage the dances, including
music scores, audiotapes, videotapes, production information, historical
information, and anything else pertinent to a dance. It is devoted
to housing and preserving these materials and to making them as
accessible as possible for the purposes of continued performance,
classroom use, and scholarly research.
Includes
theatrical and non-theatrical dance forms: In addition to scores
of ballet, modern, and jazz works which were created for presentation
in a theatrical setting, the Library maintains a collection of
folk, historical, and social dances from around the world. These
include a selection of reconstructed Renaissance and Baroque dances.
- Digital
Performance Archive
Traces the
rapid developments taking place which combine performance activity
with new digital technologies -from live theatre and dance productions
that incorporate digital projections, to performances that take
place on the computer-screen via webcasts and interactive virtual
environments. The Archive also collates examples of how computer
technologies are being used to create, document or analyse performance
- from software applications for choreography and theatre design
to specialist websites, e-zines and CD-ROMs.
- Libraries
& Archives: Dance Libraries, Archives, and Collections in the
United States and Canada
Alphabetical
list by state and and providence.
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