Resources for Dance
The following guide is not an exhaustive list of the resources in the library for dance, but is meant to highlight some important titles and ways to navigate our catalog, our library, and beyond to make the best use of our resources and your time!
Dance In Video from Alexander Street Press
Dance in Video contains 500 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Browsing the Library
Dance
GV1580 to GV1799
Performing Arts
PN1560 to PN3307
Browsing the Catalog
Do a subject search using the following terms to locate materials on dance:
Ballet
Choreography
Dance
Improvisation in Dance
Jazz Dance
Modern Dance
Music and Dance
Reference Resources in Dance
The International Encyclopedia of Dance. 6 vols.
REF GV1585.I186 1998
The International Dictionary of Modern Dance
REF GV1585.B46 1998
Biographical Dictionary of Dance
REF GV1785.A1 C58 1982
Oxford Dictionary of Dance
REF1585.C78 2004
Periodicals of Interest
To locate full text articles on dance, please use JSTOR.
Dance Magazine
Dance Now
Dance Research Dance Theatre Journal
Medical Problems in the Performing Arts
New Dance Review
Selected Dance Videos and DVDs in The Colburn Library
American Ballet Theatre at the Met
DVD245
DanceTheatre of Harlem. Fall River Legend.
DVD244
The Firebird & Les Noces
DVD010
Great Pas de Deux
DVD013
The Hard Nut
DVD143
Isadora Duncan : Movement from the Soul
DVD248
The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance.
DVD204-207
Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky
DVD142
Martha Graham in Performance
DVD156
Merce Cunningham : a Lifetime of Dance
DVD009
La Sylphide
DVD225
Links
Dance in Video From Alexander Street Press
Includes ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 233 videos, equalling 175 hours.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
World's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field.
New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division
The largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Dance in photographs and prints. Scores of dance photographs feature specific dancers, and range from publicity stills to professional photographers' vintage prints.
International Association for Dance Medicine and Science
Dedicated to improving dancers' health by cultivating educational, medical, and scienfitic excellence.
International Tap Association
The only world wide service organization for tap dance.
Music and Dance Bibliographies and Reference (Brigham Young University)
Los Angeles Ballet
Dance at the Music Center
DanceArt
George Ballanchine Foundation
Society of Dance History Scholars
Advances the field of dance studies through research, publication, performance, and outreach to audiences across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Allen Guide to Summer Camps
Commercial guide to summer dance programs.
Camp resource.com
Listings of summer dance programs and camps.
Artslynx International Dance Resources Online
CyberDance - Ballet on the Net
Dance Links
Newdance.com/DancePages Directory
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
Save-as-Dance (Dance USA)
