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Dance Resources on the Internet
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General
Artslynx/Dance:
International Dance Resources
This site categorizes dance web sites and also provides its
own original set of dance and ballet resources. All links are screened
for quality by Artslynx Editor, Richard Finkelstein.
Dancer.com
"Dance Links" is currently a voluntary effort
on the part of Jon Wright and Amy Reusch. The site provides
a good directory to dance companies, dance schools, and funding
sources for dancers.
Sapphire Swan Dance
Directory
This international dance directory is organized by dance style
and includes links to international companies and web sites devoted
to various types of dance.
Selected
Internet Resources: Dance
Compiled by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Ballet
Ballet.co
Ballet.co discusses the world of ballet and dance focusing on
the UK. Updated daily, this site collects dance reviews and
displays dance related news from around the world. Also included
is Ballet.co Magazine which often profiles dancers from the UK.
Ballet.com
Created and maintained by a ballet dancer, this site is broken
up into two main content sections: Studio to Stage and Encyclopedia.
Studio to Stage contains articles on ballet including history, life
as a ballet dancer, performing, and ballet technique. The
encyclopedia includes entries on specific ballets and ballet dancers.
Ballet Alert
Administrators of this site include Robert Greskovic, dance
critic with the Wall Street Journal, Mary Cargill,
reference librarian at Columbia University, and Marc Haegeman,
dance writer and photographer. On this site, you'll find information
about dancers, companies, and ballets.
Ballet Companies.com
An international directory of ballet companies organized by
country.
Ballet on the net
Over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources
on the Internet. Topics covered include dance companies, schools,
summer programs, news, people and organizations.
Health Resources
American Dance Therapy Association
Dance/Movement Therapists are graduates of masters degree programs
that integrate dancers' special knowledge of body, movement and
expressive spirit with the healing skills of counseling, psychotherapy
and rehabilitation. This web site lists upcoming conferences,
publications, and professional contacts.
International Association for Dance
Medicine and Science
The International Association for Dance Medicine and Science
was formed in 1990 by an international group of dance medicine practitioners,
dance educators, dance scientists, and dancers. Their web
site contains information about the society, a listing of society
publications and selected links to dance medicine, dance science,
dance education, and dance sites.
Laban/Bartenieff Institute
of Movement Studies (LIMS) Online
Laban Movement Analysis provides a vocabulary and analytic framework
for the description of human movement. This site describes
the work of a Certified Movement Analyst, explains how to pursue
this career, and lists upcoming conferences.
Special Collections
American
Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
This collection of over two hundred social dance manuals
at the Library of Congress 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.
The collection can be browsed by subject, author or title and searched
by keyword. The majority of these materials are available
to the user in their entirety.
Dance Heritage Coalition
Founded in 1992, the DHC was established to address problems identified
by a field-wide study of the current state of preservation and documentation
of American dance. The DHC provides member library contact
information, links to archival finding aids and dance research instruction.
Dance Notation Bureau
The Dance Notation Bureau (DNB) notates and documents dance
through a symbol system called Labanotation. Their web site
explains notation basics, offers correspondence courses in Labanotation,
suggests reading, and links to the DNB Library and their Notated
Theatrical Dances Catalog.
SIBMAS International
Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
"The SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts
Collections and Institutions lists over 7,000 international
institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre,
opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret,
pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is
provided, but also information about collections found within the
institutions."